Octopus Energy

Junior Frontend Developer

Milan, Italy Remote Hybrid
Python React Next.js GraphQL TypeScript
Description
We believe energy should be better - for you and the environment.

We’re a leading energy technology (EnTech) company, providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity. Better for the planet, through real long-term investment in renewable generation and a low CO2 future. We make energy green and flexible for consumers, with fair and transparent pricing.

We're on a mission to make energy greener, fairer, and genuinely better for people. Our global energy revolution is backed by Generation, the sustainable fund co-chaired by Al Gore. To succeed with this mission, we need excellent technical people who want to use their skills on the biggest challenge the planet is facing.


What will you be doing?
Octopus Energy Engineering is responsible for the sites, services, and tariffs that are used by the millions of Octopus Energy customers worldwide. From building the latest, cutting-edge time-of-use tariffs, to helping customers actually enjoy tasks like providing meter readings through our wheel of fortune - and everything in between.
You’ll find a wide variety of challenges in the work we do as we help push the energy revolution forward. Our teams are multi-disciplined and collaborate between countries, meaning you have what you need to get the right people together and build the next great thing.
Octopus Energy is growing rapidly, and the Octopus Energy Engineering team is at the forefront of this expansion. We are looking for a Junior Frontend Developer who will work closely with Octopus Energy UK and various teams, focusing on the development and integration of new features for the website and mobile app. 
The role involves working on different modules, including the private area, bill management and saving sessions, contributing to customer onboarding optimization and the implementation of marketing projects through dashboards and the personal area.  
The team is driven by the mission of creating a direct impact on customers in everything it does, meaning priorities do sometimes change, but the pace and resulting feedback cycle is satisfyingly quick, and consistently so too.
We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity. We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves.

What you'll have...

  • Knowledge of our stack, listed below
  • Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
  • Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
  • An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
  • The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines
  • Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well

Our stack

  • React
  • Next.js
  • GraphQL & Apollo
  • Styled Components & SASS
  • Jest & React Testing Library
  • TypeScript
  • Storybook
  • Python (our back-end language of choice)

Why else you'll love it here...

  • Octopus Energy is a unique culture - An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!
  • Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together
  • 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 successOffice culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
  • Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
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