Kraken is the technology platform enabling Octopus Energy and increasingly most loved energy utilities globally (E.ON, EDF Energy, Origin, etc.). The platform is offered to utilities in a SaaS model and is based on a modern, cloud-based architecture with continuous deployments that enables high-speed innovation.

We are preparing Kraken to invade France. We are looking for a leader to drive the krakenisation of France, which means driving and growing the French tech teams and driving the migration projects.

Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across many countries.

Your mission is to grow, organise, inspire and lead a team of excellent engineers (developers, product owners and data experts) to deliver Kraken Tech vision and strategy, by developing a game changer software for energy, with best-in-class agility, velocity and quality.

What you’ll do

• Scale the Kraken Tech team in France: developers, product owners and data experts
• Motivate, empower and mentor managers and engineers so that they can grow at Octopus Energy France and commit to the company success over the long run
• Embed a great engineering, problem solving and customer-first culture
• Ensure good communication and collaboration inside your team, with the rest of company and with our main utility customers
• Understand and challenge technical choices made by your team, to ensure the proper levels of agility, quality and scalability
• Work closely with the other Kraken team in the UK and around the world to help build a consistent platform

What you’ll need

• Inspirational leadership style and entrepreneurial energy
• Strong knowledge and experience in scaling teams in a scale-up environnement, building an engineering culture in which people thrive, grow and perform
• 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 understand a system design (and the ability/pragmatism to decide when to do what)
• Past experience in one of the areas like enterprise software, Large scale transaction processing, AI and machine learning software is desirable
• Experience in fast-growing organisations and scaling up platforms serving a few geographies and 10X millions to multi geography multi entity 100X millions would be ideal
• Familiarity with some of key technology components underpinning Kraken’s stack ie python, django, django-REST-framework, AWS, kubernetes, react or graphQL, is required
• A problem-solver willing to crack any problem with a particularly open and curious mindset
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in French & English

Why you will love this position

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 we won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we’re voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people - this is the same here in France

We are 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. Equity option scheme, flexible working, excellent health insurance, soft mobility pack, and even special holidays to work on an associative project… we want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!