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Senior Data Engineer - KrakenFlex
- Tokyo
- Partial Remote
- Full-time
- October 15, 2024
The energy industry is undergoing the largest transformation since industrialisation at an unprecedented rate of change and we are positioning ourselves to be at the heart of that change.
Our aim is to be the leading global provider of solutions that enable customers to release £30bn of value per annum from distributed energy resources (DERs). We are building a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription business with a global addressable market of £2.4 billion per annum, by digitally connecting hundreds of thousands of DERs with energy markets.
We have already attained a market leading position and KrakenFlex is a recognised thought leader and innovator in the industry. Our efforts have not gone unnoticed and we are pleased to announce that we now have the full support and backing of Octopus Energy, an award-winning UK energy supplier who share our passion and values.
As we enter the stage of rapid commercialisation and customer account growth, we have a number of exciting new offerings to launch to customers. We’re looking for an exceptional person to help us continuously deliver features that provide value to our customers. Our ideal engineer would be an individual who loves to engage with interesting software problems, with an interest in data related development and the passion to build and shape the future within a collaborative, community-based environment. We operate a highly agile development approach, giving wide scope to be involved with hands-on system-design, test driven development, deployment and operations.
Our data sources and problems are many and varied. We have some simple but high throughput data sources (e.g. over 4,000,000,000 rows a day and growing rapidly), complex unstructured and semi structured data and complex application data from our various microservices.
Our aim is to allow our business and our customers to answer increasingly complex questions, and gain new insights, based on our data, additional external data, and things we can learn and models we can extract from our data.
What you'll do
- Build data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business
- Provide operational support for existing data pipelines during working hours
- Integrate new data sources into the data platform as well as working on initiatives to continuously improve stability, quality and performance
- Build and maintain testing and documentation frameworks for our data sources
- Work with the business to scope and deliver new data engineering projects and requirements
- Maintain and build on our existing data infrastructure and tools
- Support and mentor teams in the APAC region in internationalisation of our data and reporting infrastructure as we continue to grow globally
- Contribute to the software engineering and data engineering culture here at KrakenFlex
- Collaborate regularly with colleagues across the world with many different professional specialities, including software engineers and data scientists, to create innovative solutions that delight our customers and colleagues
- Work as part of a team of engineers, regularly seeking feedback and growing your skills as technical professionals.
What you'll need
- In depth industry experience in software development & design
- Experience in Python
- Experience with data processing and pipeline technologies
- e.g. dbt, Databricks, AWS Glue, Spark, Airflow, Redshift, SQL, Parquet
- (don’t worry, we don’t expect or want you to have them all, and experience with other technologies doing the same jobs is also interesting).
- A drive to get things done in a collaborative, agile development environment but also able to work independently and proactively raise issues
- An interest in working with data, both processing and analysing
- A proven ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills, especially in an asynchronous context
- Experience working with data lakes and data at scale
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, and serverless technologies e.g. AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway
- Experience developing, securing or operating cloud scale applications or infrastructure; ideally terraform or cloudformation
Why else you'll love it here
- Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- 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! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
- Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.
About Kraken Technologies
Help Kraken use technology to make a big green dent in the universe! Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy and is built to empower businesses to lead the energy transition from generation to supply.
Kraken is a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, their operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.
They are now licensing Kraken to businesses in 17 countries around the world and manage over 300,000 energy assets.
Kraken's original goal was to have 100 million customers on the Kraken Platform by the year 2030. As Kraken is far ahead of schedule with 60 million accounts, they are bringing the end date forward to 2027!
Some of the businesses Kraken partner with include E.ON in Europe, Origin in Australia, and Tokyo Gas in Japan.
Kraken is looking to continue growing their Japanese operations to build more tech to make energy in Japan greener and increase their investment in service and growth in Japan and Globally.
To get an idea of what it’s like to work at Kraken, hear from Karim, one of Kraken's Engineers here.
