Head of Engineering - Kraken Utilities
Octopus Energy
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and scale the Kraken Utilities team, overseeing a talented group of over 25 engineers.
- Embed a great engineering, problem solving and customer-first culture
- Provide leadership and mentorship to 5~7 engineering leads to build high-performing teams.
- Ensure that the engineering team ships consistently high quality, reliable, scalable, secure and performant software.
- Architect new components of the Kraken platform and drive continuous development to meet evolving client needs.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to facilitate smooth migration and adoption of our platform as a service (SaaS).
- Work closely with the existing Kraken team to help build a consistent platform
- Collaborate closely with the Telco team to ensure consistency
- Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders (technical and non technical).
- Technical depth and breadth to drive the future development of the platform
- Structured problem solving skills to decompose and solve ambiguous problems
- Ability to hack a quick prototype and to properly architect a system design (and the ability/pragmatism to decide when to do what)
- Inspirational leadership style and entrepreneurial energy
- Past experience in one of the areas like enterprise software, Large scale transaction processing, AI and machine learning software is desirable
- Scaling up platforms serving a few geographies and 10X millions to multi geography multi entity 100X millions would be ideal
- Familiarity with key technology components underpinning Kraken's stack ie python, django, django-REST-framework, AWS, kubernetes, terraform, react and graphQL, is required
- Experience managing teams of teams (20+ engineers is desired).
- Stakeholder management experience.
- Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won