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How Kraken Technologies hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
27 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%

Kraken Technologies scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 27 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 2
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker)

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Overview

Kraken Technologies is a software company headquartered in London that builds Kraken, an operating platform for energy and utility companies covering billing, customer service, smart meter data, flexibility and grid operations. Created inside Octopus Energy Group in 2016, it now licenses its platform to energy suppliers and utilities such as EDF, E.ON Next, Origin Energy and Tokyo Gas, managing tens of millions of customer accounts worldwide. It hires software engineers, client data and analytics leads, implementation and delivery managers, people and compensation specialists and commercial staff.

News

News Default 1 month ago
BOMA 2026: Kraken's K3 Scout USV integrated with Perennial Autonomy's Bumblebee V1 UAVs
Kraken Technologies' K3 Scout unmanned surface vehicle has been integrated with Perennial Autonomy's Bumblebee V1 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during NATO's military...
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News Pulse 2.0 9 months ago
British Business Bank Commits £25 Million To Kraken Technologies
The British Business Bank has committed to invest £25 million in Kraken Technologies as part of Kraken's $1 billion demerger from Octopus Energy Group, in a deal done in partnership with Octopus Group and facilitated by Octopus Ventures.
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News EuroPython Blog 3 years ago
Kraken Technologies: How we organise our very large Pythonmonolith
By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies.Hi, I'm David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: aPython application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read thatright: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including te
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kraken Technologies over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
75
Postings analysed
37
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python59%
SQL22%
TypeScript5%
Java3%
Frameworks & libraries
Django43%
Celery24%
Redux11%
LiteLLM8%
Databases
PostgreSQL38%
Delta Lake5%
Amazon Aurora5%
DynamoDB5%
Cloud & platforms
AWS59%
Kubernetes41%
Datadog32%
Amazon EKS24%
AI & ML
LLM8%
Claude5%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$101k – $260k
Open positions
9
8 Jobs
Senior 12.5%
Staff 62.5%
Architect 25%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $200k $200k
Staff 5 $200k $101k – $200k
Architect 2 $240k $220k – $260k
Highest paying role Program Director - Grid Flexibility $260k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Kraken Technologies By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
53
9 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 52% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
10/27/2026
Hiring Dynamics +2850%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
26% ▼
Backend
16% ▼
Field & Service
16%
Product
8% ▲
Analytics
6% ▲
Hardware
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Outlook to stack Oct 2026
Added DNP3 to stack Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
7
Busiest office
London
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London United Kingdom
HQ
14 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 7% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, HR
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Tokyo Japan
Support & operations
12 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 17% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations, Backend, Field & Service
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Berlin Germany
Regional office
10 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 20% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations, Field & Service, Backend
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Melbourne Australia
Sales office
8 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 25% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations, Backend, Analytics
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
New York United States
Support & operations
7 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Leadership, Marketing
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Manchester United Kingdom
Plant / site
7 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Backend, DevOps
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Paris France
Support & operations
4 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, Marketing, Field & Service
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Milan Italy
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $101k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $106k – $227k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
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≈ $48k – $112k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Tokyo
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≈ $36k – $93k per year (Estimated) · Remote (Japan) · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Tokyo
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≈ $102k – $198k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
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≈ $98k – $238k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Melbourne
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≈ $125k – $250k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Manchester · London
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≈ $76k – $160k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Berlin
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$180k – $220k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · New York
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≈ $115k – $222k per year (Estimated) · Remote (Germany) · Full-Time · Berlin
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Financials

Total raised
$1.6M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
10
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2022 $206k Details
Grant 2021 $219k Details
Grant 2021 $206k Details
Grant 2020 $219k Details
Grant 2020 $206k Details
Grant 2019 $206k Details
Grant 2018 $189k Details
Grant 2017 $81k Details
Grant 2017 $54k Details
Grant 2017 $29k Details