Hybrid Senior Backend Software Engineer

at Kraken

• Job title: Senior Backend Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Consul, Django, Packer, Postgres, Python, React, Redux, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Backend Software Engineer developing innovative technology for sustainable energy systems at Kraken. Tackling complex design and technical challenges in the evolving US energy market.

Responsibilities

• We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The US energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's a lot of domain modelling that we need to get right.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.
• Often, we can only give you the question and not the answer, because if we knew the answer, we wouldn’t be hiring - are you someone who not only finds answers but creates value by coming back and asking better questions?
• There's a great opportunity for disruption in the US energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology. Octopus Energy were the first UK supplier to introduce a "tracker" tariff whose prices track the daily wholesale prices: http://www.cleanenergynews.co.uk/news/efficiency/octopus-offers-transparency-with-wholesale-price-tariff
• You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our parent company is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and are funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of professional python software development experience is required.
• General interest in technology and problem-solving; Diligent and thoughtful.
• Good communication skills
• Python
• Django
• Django REST Framework
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• Postgres
• Legally able to work within the USA
• Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:
• AWS
• Terraform, Packer, Consul
• React and Redux
• Professional understanding of the US energy domain

Benefits

• Great **medical,** **dental**, and **vision insurance** options including FSAs
• **Paid time off **— we have a flexible policy for time off, we don't count days. We encourage you to take the time you need to relax and refresh.
• **401(k) plan** with employer match
• **Parental leave**. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• **Flexible working environment**: you need to shift around your schedule? You do you, we genuinely believe in work/life balance.
• **Equity Options**: every Kraken employee owns part of the business. We’re a team, working together towards huge goals. Every person is crucial to our success, you should be rewarded as such.
• **Modern office** in the heart of Manhattan (Tribeca).
• We hire a wide range of experience levels into our software teams.