Hi! We're UW.

We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!

We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money. Big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Got your attention? Read on…

We put people first. It’s all about you..

• We care about how we deliver and who we work with, we enjoy working on interesting problems with smart people and know that if it was easy it wouldn't be fun.
• We deliver quickly by keeping processes light and enabling autonomy.
• We’ve never believed in ivory tower leadership. Our leadership team are hands-on, roll-up their sleeves when needed to mentor and support.
• We encourage experimentation, don’t appreciate egos, believe in debate, collaboration and learning.
• We have 280+ people in Tech, as a team we’re very much backend heavy in terms of engineering fire power but with UX, Product and Data now growing quickly we’re in the right place to push on and hire people who want to very much take ownership of what they are delivering and more importantly how we go about it.
• Our primary backend language is Go, with frontends generally written using React + TypeScript.
• We run everything on Kubernetes spread over multiple clouds and an on prem cluster.
• If it can be open sourced, it shall be.

The team

The Smart Energy team's mission is to install & activate smart meters and maintain accurate device data for this crucial aspect of a future-proof, green UK energy solution. Our customers are both our end-users interacting with us via web and app, and our internal business users requiring access to data and troubleshooting smart meter issues. We're just finishing up a project to improve self-service journeys for customers to install smart meters, and we're about to dive into some integration and refactoring work to enable more automation and better efficiency for our users

In this role, you can expect to -

• Design, build, test and deploy Go event-driven microservices on Kubernetes in the context of the Identity and Access Management platform.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our ways of working. Identify pain-points and propose improvements.
• Own the whole software delivery process, from ideation through to in-life support and monitoring.

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

The engineering team at UW are highly-visible, consumer facing and delivery-focused. You’ll need to be prepared to work at pace and be comfortable with constant iteration, whilst working in a regulatory ecosystem.

We are seeking an individual with natural curiosity and an inherent drive to explore. You'll thrive in unfamiliar territories, unafraid to dive in and get hands-on. Your forte lies in envisioning the bigger picture, looking beyond immediate tasks to craft holistic solutions. A 'devops mindset' defines you, acknowledging your responsibility in not just writing code but also ensuring its smooth operation.

You'll be self aware and emotionally intelligent.

Your skills & experience

• Go
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• gRPC
• PostgreSQL/ CockroachDB
• Systems design and software architecture (high availability and fault tolerant)
• DevOps experience (software engineers are expected to run the software that they build)