Technical Recruiter, Octopus Energy Group

• Minimum 2 years in an in-house technical recruiting role, in a high bar environment. We don't use agencies, so candidates will come from sourcing and applications
• Experience hiring software engineers in London, you are familiar with the best tech houses and have a good candidate network
• Super organisation skills, and an ability to prioritise
• You love to work with all kinds of people - you’ve got no functional shoulder pads - it’s not ‘my team versus other teams’, it’s ‘we’re all working together to change the energy system globally, and I’ll lend anyone a hand’
• You'll need to interview candidates, so previous experience screening and assessing candidates across a variety of roles for both hard skills and cultural qualities is needed

• We're a hiring a Technical Recruiter on an initial 6 month fixed term contract basis. You will join our in-house Talent team of 3 and own our technical hiring across Software Engineering, Product, Data and Design, though majority of your hiring will be within engineering. Our Technical stack is React, TypeScript, GraphQL and Python
• You will partner closely with our new Head of Engineering who has just joined and will be ramping up the capacity of existing teams as well looking at the structure of our technical organisation
• This role is well suited to someone who can either start immediately or in 1 month max
• Source, screen and progress candidates through the interview pipelines - hiring London based or UK remote software engineers (full stack, backend and frontend)
• Build proactive sourcing strategies for strategic technical roles - be innovative with sourcing techniques to identify passive candidates e.g. networking, events etc
• Partnering closely with stakeholders to provide an 'executive search' experience
• Build great relationships with candidates, with a view of short and long term hires
• Constantly provide an amazing candidate experience and look to always improve this across the team
• Work collaboratively across the wider recruitment team
• Take a consultative approach to recruitment - focusing on speed, quality and diversity

• Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
• Flexi working environment
• Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Equity Option Scheme - Everyone owns part of what we’re building with shares
• Tech - We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
• Money Coach - You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach. They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
• Wellbeing - Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available. Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Octopus staff!
• Parents - get access to tax free childcare and maternity and paternity pay. We’re always looking for new ways to support parents, during lockdown we created OctoKids TV to help keep your kids occupied and entertained (https://octopus.energy/blog/octopuskids/)
• Office culture - Our offices are stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee, and soft drinks (and ice lollies if you're lucky)! Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner. We won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. Check out what our people say at Glassdoor!
• Car Salary Sacrifice - Browse the wide selection of electric vehicles and get a sample quote under our workplace salary sacrifice scheme. If approved, the monthly leasing costs are taken directly from your gross salary each month meaning you're saving on paying some tax

Total funding: $2.5bn

According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and they now supply energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.