Software Engineer, OVO
Artificial Intelligence
£77.6-103k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15% + Flex pay (an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like)
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Open for applications
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£77.6-103k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15% + Flex pay (an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like)
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- A strong track record in designing, building, monitoring, and managing large-scale data products, pipelines, tooling, and platforms
- Highly motivated learner who loves keeping up to date with the latest advances in GenAI
- Solid experience with streaming and batch ETL solutions using data processing tools like Kafka, Pub-Sub, VertexAI, BigQuery, Dataform, Postgres, or comparable technologies
- Hands-on experience in developing cloud-based solutions across GCP, AWS, or Azure, with a command of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform and cloud compute platforms like GCP Cloud Run
- Excellent command of at least one programming language recognised in the Data Engineering community; our team primarily utilises Python
- A deep understanding of the best engineering practices, including containerisation, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Experience of ML Ops, Model Training, Evaluation and Deployment
- Passion for crafting scalable, resilient solutions that are observable. Experience with platforms such as Datadog or Grafana will be useful
- Comfortability working in an agile development setting with frequent release cycles, paired with experience in pair programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, and strategic deployment approaches
What the job involves
- Team: Advanced Virtual Advisor (AVA), Operations
- Reporting to: Software Engineering Manager
- As part of the Advanced Virtual Agent (AVA) team, you will build the future of customer interaction and automation at OVO, harnessing AI to improve customer outcomes whilst increasing operational efficiency
- You will play a leading role in the development of LLMs, contributing to the team's architecture and tooling
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable AI solutions
- Perform both batch and real-time data transformations, ensuring data is accurate, efficient, and readily available for machine learning and analytics
- Working with Cloud infrastructure - primarily GCP
- Working in an Agile multi-disciplinary team where you will have the opportunity to influence technology selection
- Establishing and advocating for good engineering standard methodologies within the team, such as:
- Using infrastructure as code
- Contributing to automated testing efforts
- Utilising monitoring and alerting tools
- Employing CI/CD standard processes for production releases
- Influence architecture with strong system design knowledge
- Building and maintaining integration pipelines that power our automated journeys
- Mentoring junior members of the team - particularly interns and industry placements
- Working with key stakeholders to understand their data needs and help deliver solutions that provide them with excellent quality data that allows teams to realise their objectives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$261.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$261.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $562.6m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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