What you’ll do

We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The French energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there’s an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential.

We have difficult technical problems to solve. With the advent of smart meters, we’ll soon be processing millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption.

You’ll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change.

As a supplier, we’re helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the French market towards a lower carbon future.

What you’ll have

We’re looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful.

It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):

• Python (minimum 7 y.e.)

• Django (or equiv. web framework)

• Fluent in French, and lever B2 at least in English

• Domain modelling

• HTTP and REST APIs

• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software

• Celery and async processing

• Postgres

Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:

• AWS

• Terraform, Packer, Consul

• React and Redux

This is a full remote position, we are therefore looking for senior developers. We need people working remotely to have a very good level of autonomy and strong technical abilities. If you are not senior, we may have space for you but it will not be in a remote position.

• Wondering what the salary is for this position? Ask us! During our initial contact, this is something we always bring up, because we really want to match your experience with the right salary. The reason we don’t talk about it here is that we 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 has a unique culture: we won the award for Best Company to Work For in 2022, on Glassdoor UK we were voted one of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2022 and our CEO, Greg, recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our employees. In 2023, we were named one of the 100 best companies to work for in the Sunday Times. In France, we were awarded the Happy at Work label, and ranked eighteenth out of a total of 1,675 structures in the category of companies where employees find the most meaning.

• We are an organization where people learn, decide and build faster. Where they work autonomously, with extraordinary people, on innovative projects. Profit-sharing, flex-office, excellent mutual insurance, soft mobility package, coverage of part of the “pass navigo” above the legal minimum, and even special days off to invest in an associative project that’s close to your heart… we want your investment to be rewarded by benefits you really care about!

At Octopus, we’re looking for people who are genuinely caring and empathetic. Equal opportunities are important to us, and we’re committed to providing an inclusive and fair working environment. We invite you to apply, whatever your age, gender, marital status, color, disability, pregnancy or parenthood, origin, religious beliefs or sexual orientation.