[Hiring] Software Engineer @Utility Warehouse

Role Description

As a Software Engineer in the Energy team, you'll find yourself working on high-impact projects such as:

• Ongoing Energy Transformation
• Market Wide Half Hourly Settlement

You'll be joining one of our Energy engineering teams, working primarily with:

• Go
• Postgres
• Kafka
• Kubernetes

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting end-to-end deployments within your team’s Kubernetes namespaces
• Building and operating systems where resilience, reliability, observability, and uptime are important
• Collaborating with senior engineers

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on production experience with Go (non-negotiable)
• Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
• A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
• The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
• Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
• Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
• Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams

Requirements

• Contribute to team goals by delivering well-scoped work that aligns with agreed objectives
• Participate in prioritisation discussions and raise risks or opportunities as they arise
• Design and implement reliable technical solutions within existing architectures and standards
• Make sound technical decisions for your work, drawing on experience across relevant technologies and seeking guidance when needed
• Deliver features and improvements from design through to completion with support from senior engineers
• Balance quality and progress, address technical debt as part of regular work, and help keep services and processes maintainable
• Build a solid understanding of the product and services your team supports
• Understand how your work contributes to user and business outcomes, and factor this into day-to-day technical decisions
• Work collaboratively through pairing, code reviews, and team discussions
• Be open to feedback, support teammates when possible, and actively develop your technical and professional skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact)
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year
• UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary)
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’