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By maximising the returns from these assets we aim to drive investment in renewable energy and accelerate the transition to a low carbon world. Our rapidly growing team of 130+ people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.\nWe have a vacancy for a Software Engineer to join our UK Software team based in Oxford. In this role, you will be part of the team responsible for building, maintaining and evolving our renewable energy platform. This platform enables our trading and operations teams to manage and optimise one of the largest fleet of battery energy storage sites in the UK. You will be joining a number of talented, multi-disciplined software engineers who want to build resilient, scalable software to help enable the net-zero transition.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nDeveloping and maintaining our applications\nMaintain existing code and own brand new applications. We have written and deployed dozens of different microservice APIs and UIs covering asset dispatch and monitoring, trade management and exposure, reporting and settlements, market interfaces for manual and automated trading, data consumers required for forecasting and optimization. Operations and markets keep changing and so do we.\nCollaborating with internal teams to understand challenges and work towards defining solutions\nInterface with traders, data scientists, ops analysts and other software engineers to understand the needs and requirements from our software. Navigate the different market and third party tooling to help architect robust and scalable solutions.\nEnsuring that software is designed, built, released and maintained in accordance with our SDLC process\nWrite clean and tested code. Check deployments on our Kubernetes cluster are successful and work as expected. Write clear documentation, including troubleshooting runbooks, to enable on-call support. Participate positively in peer reviews for and from colleagues to ensure the quality of all our software applications.\nParticipating in rotating on-call support of operations\nAll software engineers are expected to take an equal share of the tech-on-call rota. This forms the first point of call for software support issues. Utilising runbooks, support Trading and Operations in live troubleshooting, using the escalation procedure as required.\nRequirements\nPreferred skills and experience:\n3+ years of Python experience\nProficiency with API frameworks (FastAPI, Django, etc.)\nExperience with modelling databases with Python (ideally SQLAlchemy)\nExperience developing UIs with moderns frameworks (e.g. Vue)\nDesire to be part of a fast-paced team, working with live, operational assets\nWriting code that is clean and tested\nPositive, open, and honest approach to technical and interpersonal challenges\nCan communicate complex issues and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders\n‘Nice to have’ skills and experience:\nExperience in energy/power trading\nExperience with Vue\nExperience with AWS\nExperience with Docker\nExperience with Github Actions\nExperience with Kubernetes\nExperience with real-time (streaming) data management, transformation and orchestration tools and approaches\nExperience working with microservice architectures, with a focus on zero-downtime deployments and scalability\nUltimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.\nIn return, we’ll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with at least 2 days in our offices in Oxford.\nWhen you apply for a job with us, we process some of your personal information. 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