The project we invite you to join

Our client Octopus Energy is revolutionizing the energy retail market for the mass consumer. Over the past 3 years, through a technology we are developing together they've managed to deliver the lowest cost electricity on the German market. Inspired by Fintech and the success of pure digital offers in other markets, we together are on a mission to provide the best digital customer experience in the energy industry.

You will be part of a team with huge ambitions to disrupt this sector and make Octopus Energy the defacto standard for the German energy market. 

The Role

We are looking for a talented, passionate individual with demonstrable technical capabilities who has an eye for attention to detail. Someone who is obsessive about the code they produce adhering to SOLID engineering principles. You will work in a collaborative agile environment and have excellent verbal communication skills with the confidence to partake in dev calls where you will be expected to contribute to the overall discussion.

The Stack

Our server-side platform is built around Microsoft and .NET technologies. We use Service Fabric hosted on Azure to drive our microservices architecture and internally use a service bus as the transport layer as well as a distributed transaction coordinator. Our data persistence approach is polyglot and consists of traditional RDB’s alongside reliable storage (a distributed key value pair storage system). On the client-side we use Angular, NgRX and SASS. Experience with Python, Django and AWS will also be useful for some of the integrations we are making.

What you'll do...

• Immerse yourself in the service fabric – how it works and the various microservices
• Deliver clean code
• Be a champion of mocking and unit testing
• Contribute to the architectural decisions
• Mentor and manage less experienced members of the team
• Work within a geographically diverse environment
• Work with non-technical stakeholders within the business to understand and refine complex requirements
• Handling multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

What you'll need to have...

• 5+ years of solid industry experience in .NET/C#
• Commercial experience using Python
• In depth understanding of design patterns, when they are important and how to apply them
• An abundance of self-discipline is an absolute must
• A passion for refactoring (both in terms of code and architecture)
• Past experience and ideas that can help improve our platform and processes
• Experience across a number of technologies
• Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of larger team
• Extensive knowledge and experience of software engineering practices such as CI/CD/TDD, instrumentation and telemetry

The benefits we know you will enjoy

As being part of a digital cooperative:

• We maintain a structure governed by transparency, in which decisions are taken with solid arguments and the voice of the team;
• As an organization we are closer to a tech community than a hierarchical corporate structure.

As being part of a tech expert community:

• Solving complex problems as a team is what we love most;
• The Obecto developers pride themselves on excellent practical knowledge of Software Design Patterns, OOP concepts and SOLID principles;
• As tech lovers we stay on top of the latest technological developments and share the knowledge gathered;
• Currently our community is paying special attention to the latest advancement in the realm of blockchain, AI and Deep Learning;

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Obecto is a digital cooperative of driven software developers, experienced tech experts, and committed product managers, who have left the outsourcing, corporate structures in order to pursue our true passion – building innovative tech products and creating an impact.

We began as a handful of developers, seeking to find balance between work and personal life, and enjoy both of them. We joined forces to build our digital cooperative, allowing us to do just that. Work on projects we love, be rewarded for our effort and not being stuck in an office all the time.

Today everything in Obecto is driven by the passion to create amazing technology and solve complex problems. Now we extend an invitation for other like-minded, tech-loving developers to join our cooperative and work alongside us.

Deeper look into Obecto: http://www.obecto.com/blog/