Software Engineer - Energy

Required Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Strong, hands-on production experience with Go (non-negotiable)
• Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
• A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
• The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
• Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
• Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
• Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams

We deliver progress. What you’ll do and how you will make an impact.

Impact: Contribute to team goals by delivering well-scoped work that aligns with agreed objectives. Participate in prioritisation discussions and raise risks or opportunities as they arise.

Technical Skills: Design and implement reliable technical solutions within existing architectures and standards. Make sound technical decisions for your work, drawing on experience across relevant technologies and seeking guidance when needed.

Planning & Delivery: Deliver features and improvements from design through to completion with support from senior engineers. Balance quality and progress, address technical debt as part of regular work, and help keep services and processes maintainable.

Business & Domain Knowledge: Build a solid understanding of the product and services your team supports. Understand how your work contributes to user and business outcomes, and factor this into day-to-day technical decisions.

Collaboration & Growth: Work collaboratively through pairing, code reviews, and team discussions. Be open to feedback, support teammates when possible, and actively develop your technical and professional skills.

Possible Next Career Steps

• Senior Software Engineer