Overview

Kraken Utilities is expanding the Kraken platform to other utility industries (Water and Broadband). The Kraken Utilities team has grown from scratch to re-architect, design, and develop the Kraken software platform to solve complex industry-wide problems within the water and broadband sectors (such as customer experience and water leak detection). The team is in a rapid growth phase and has signed multiple clients; the broader Kraken organization includes engineers, product, implementation, and strategy personnel across 120+ people, with 1800+ people in the overall Kraken world.

Our technology platform is focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences through resources such as CIS, billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI-driven communications. Kraken aims to serve more customers and continues to invest in renewable energy initiatives and data-driven solutions.

What you'll do

• Work on challenging design problems in a UK utilities market that is complex, outdated, and process-heavy; apply strong attention to detail.
• Help build and scale the Kraken Utilities team by embedding an engineering, problem-solving, and customer-first culture.
• Architect and develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities.
• Tackle technical challenges such as processing tens of millions of meter readings per day, ensuring data flows smoothly into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption, and adapting Kraken for water and broadband use cases.
• Contribute to opportunities for disruption in the UK water and broadband markets as technology evolves toward more disaggregated generation and smarter solutions.
• Work for a company that is actively involved in renewable energy generation, contributing to a lower carbon future.

What you'll need

• A general interest in technology and problem-solving; diligent and thoughtful approach.
• Experience with:
• Python
• Django (or equivalent web framework)
• Domain modelling
• HTTP and REST APIs
• Writing robust and fault-tolerant software
• Celery and async processing
• PostgreSQL

Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:

• AWS
• Terraform, Packer, Consul
• React and Redux

We prefer someone who can work in our London office with a hybrid policy of 1-2 days onsite. You need to be able to work in the UK.

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