Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

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Team: Various options (See below)  

Salary banding: £70,000 - £100,000

Experience: Tech Lead / Expert 

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Head of Engineering/Engineering Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

This role in 3 words: Collaborative, Technical, Innovative

Top 3 qualities for this role: Problem-solving, Creative, Attention to detail

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. 

We’re hiring world-changers. We currently have vacancies in various different teams, so if you’re genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact millions of people and also our environment, we want to hear from you! 

Teams we're currently hiring into:

• Zero Carbon Living (Home) 
• Data Platform
• Operations

This role in a nutshell:

Across OVO we have Software Engineers all with varying backgrounds and levels of experience. One key thing that all of our engineers have in common is a desire to develop brilliant, industry redefining products as well as their own skills.

Working across a whole domain with other Engineers, a Product Manager, Product Designer and Head of Engineering/Engineering Manager, you’ll build systems using the latest cloud services, architectures and best practices providing performance, resilience and scalability. You’ll contribute to your team's Ways of Working, and have time for your own personal development.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Acting as a subject matter expert within the team, providing technical advice, guiding solutions, and helping to establish good engineering practices.
• Influencing the team’s technology selection and architectural direction.
• Playing a key role in the technical decisions that help drive the direction of the strategy here at OVO.
• Designing, building and maintaining cutting edge services and tools

You’ll be a successful Tech Lead here at OVO if you…

• Demonstrate technical leadership including guiding product architecture, solution design, technology selection, design pattern usage, and implementation activities
• Have a passion for coaching and mentoring other technical team members.
• Are highly proficient in Typescript
• Have experience developing cloud-based solutions on GCP or AWS using Infrastructure as Code
• Have a proven track record of designing and building highly performant scalable applications 
• Are comfortable working in an agile development environment with regular release cycles, and have experience of pair programming, BDD/TDD, CI/CD and deployment strategies.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £70,000 and £100,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..