Company
Utility Warehouse is a FTSE 250 organisation which has established itself as the most trusted supplier of utility products in the UK. Utility Warehouse is the only genuine multi-utility operator in the market providing gas, electricity, landline, broadband, mobile & insurance products and services to households and businesses nationwide, all on one single monthly bill. With over 600,000 customers the organisation has grown through a philosophy of offering savings, simplicity and service. Customers enjoy a number of advantages, including membership of a discount club, and a unique CashBack reward system on everyday shopping. The organisation does not advertise, preferring instead to invest in customer services and to keep prices low. Utility Warehouse has predominantly grown through a network of over 45,000 partners who operate as lead generators and advocates for the organisation. These partners come from a range of personal and professional backgrounds, and actively take it upon themselves to promote and recommend Utility Warehouse to friends, families and their professional networks. Trust between these partners and the organisation is crucial, and ensures that customer service and satisfaction are consistently prioritised.
Background
Utility Warehouse is an energetic and entrepreneurial challenger in a market traditionally composed of monolithic, slow competitors. In the utilities market, it is difficult to compete on the quality of the product and therefore establishing a strong value proposition is crucial to avoid a race to the bottom on price. Utility Warehouse has established itself as the most trusted brand in its sector, winning accolades from industry publications and consumer advisory guides. Customer service is at the core of their business ethos and another way they differentiate from their competitors; 93% of customers would recommend the organisation to a friend. By establishing a best-in-class experience for the consumer, Utility Warehouse commands a strong market position in an age where technology makes it increasingly easy to access information on consumersβ experiences. The organisation is well-placed to capture an increasingly large portion of the Β£52bn market that they operate in. By staying true to their values of trust and service, Utility Warehouse is the only major provider in the market to be both growing and profitable.
Utility Warehouse has an adaptive, agile, fast-paced culture which has enabled it to grow rapidly. The management team has expanded over the last two years as part of the growth strategy with significant hires in technology, legal, marketing, and finance. These hires and the rebuilding of the platform will enable the company to grow to two million customers over the medium-term. Utility Warehouse operates at high-transactional scale, processing large volumes of data. This presents new opportunities to understand customer behaviours better and to create an improved customer experience as a result.
Opportunity
With ambitious product plans for the future, it is important to have a solid foundation to enable growth for the business, allow innovation and achieve rapid time to market. To realise this, the underlying platforms and systems must be designed to be flexible, modular and resilient.
You will join our Insurance team tasked with designing and building the insurance platform from the ground up to enable new opportunities to our insurance product and services.
The platform will be a set of simple and intelligent APIs built using microservices and event driven architectures. Internally, the decision and rating engines will leverage integration with numerous 3rd party systems to provide quotes, offer addons, allow policy uptake and operational management.
Key responsibilities
Key requirements
Hangout with engineering manager, pairing interview and whiteboard (non-algorithmic)
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Do you like solving problems? Building things? Breaking things? Experimenting with things? (because we do)
Come on, the answer's yes already ...
We'd like you onboard!
We're funded, we're early, we're moving super fast, and we're about to solve a MASSIVE problem. At Metomic, we're building the "privacy by design" infrastructure of the internet. Technologies plug together like Lego - it's about time that our preferences, consent and sharing permissions do the same.
It's a greenfield opportunity. We have:
We love awesome engineering, and awesome engineers:
And modest, too. Here are some of the other things that you have:
...and you have a wide set of interests:
Perhaps in your free time you've dabbled with front-end. Or painting. Or robots. Or a markov-chain Trump-tweet generator. In which case can you take it down please? It's currently running the United States.
Hey you said full-stack ... but "dabbled" with front-end?
Yes. We don't need you to be a front-end person. We're looking for a great engineer in general, not a specialism - and this is the closest tag we could decide upon. So if you've ever felt "But I do lots of things! How do I present myself as capable doer of multitudinous things?" then you're perfect. "So do I need to build the front-end" Nope!
Unless that's your burning passion, in which case, hey, we'll hook you up.
What else? I want more. Open-source? Dev talks? Community?
Ok, we're going to be hitting the noise channels pretty hard to make a bit of a racket. We're engineers, and a lot of other engineers are getting on board with this idea of doing shared data "right".
So for us that means: meetups, blogging, tech talks, open-sourcing, spec-defining and platform designing. There will be lots of pizza and snacks because we're supposed to like pizza and snacks and Richard's pretty health conscious so there'll be some kind of vegetable presence too.
And if you like the sound of having a voice in the community, we will absolutely make that happen.
Whoa whoa wait, the salary?
Of course. We believe in hiring good people, and paying them well. This is a big role, it comes with a big salary. We're also offering equity, because we want everyone to be in the same boat.
Ok I'm sold. Let's chat.
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What does the role involve?
What are we looking for?
Tech stack:
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You have:
Solid Kubernetes experience in a professional environment β You have experience scaling Kubernetes (including auto-scaling) β You have deployed a Kubernetes deployment on AWS β You've implemented metrics, logging and tracing β You know how to get under the hood to diagnose issues when things go wrong
Good knowledge of AWS (or GCE) β EC2 & VPCs β S3 β DynamoDB β RDS (Postgres/Aurora) β Cloudfront β SQS β Route 53
Worked with some of the following technologies β Golang β Ruby/Python β Bash script β Postgres
Knowledge of fundamentals of GIS β You can use PostGIS to run basic queries
Your responsibilities: β As a fast growing company, scaling our systems as we grow will be a core part of your job. β Building out our metrics, logging and tracing infrastructure to give us full insight into our stack. β Looking after our AWS & Heroku accounts & infrastructure. β Managing our external services (CDNs, Databases etc) β Ensuring security standards throughout our infrastructure. β Improving the performance and reliability of our tile and data stacks. β Maintaining and improving our user databases. β Iterating on our PostGIS adventure databases. β Mentoring our more junior developers. β Building on our current engineering processes such as code reviews, pull requests etc. β Helping us continue to build our engineering culture.
Your profile: β You're an engineer that can see the bigger picture, you understand why performance and quality is important to our end users and why automated tests and documentation are important to our wider engineering team. β You care deeply about the quality of the work you produce. β You can distill complex requirements into a non-complex solution. β You have excellent communication skills and can explain complicated problems in an easy to understand way. β You are dynamic and can effortlessly transition between the various facets of the company as required. β You are a self-starter and comfortable taking the lead on certain aspects of your role. β You are comfortable mentoring other members of the engineering team.
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At Paradino weβre building a platform to solve Cloud and DevOps challenges for our customers. We have an ambitious roadmap and are looking for an experienced person to grow the platform and contribute to on-going engineering best-practices.
Our day-to-day engineering projects include infrastructure automation, UI development, developer tooling, API design, backend-development, prototyping and everything in-between. Youβll have the opportunity to be involved across all projects, with help and guidance provided where you need it.
We try to remain open in our technology choices, choosing the best tool for the job. Our current stack includes:
Golang, Node, Python, Terraform, Consul, Serverless / Lambda, Docker, Bash, Powershell, and a lot of AWS.
Weβre open to candidates with a wide range of backgrounds and career goals β you might want to broaden your experience or choose to specialise in a particular area.
Our key requirements are:
Bonus points for: