Senior Mobile Engineer

We’re 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, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

We’re making converting homes to green electrons as simple as possible, by building a platform to allow engineers to install smart meters, solar panels, heat pumps, EV chargers, and more.

We’re busy launching in new countries, working with ever more engineers and tech partners, building exciting new features at scale, and creating the integrated solution to retrofit homes across the world - all in the name of making it as easy and cheap as possible for customers to go green.

Kraken Field is a multifunctional, multinational team made up of product, backend, design, mobile, web and more - all focused together on making Octopus the go-to name in green home installations. And we’re looking for smart individuals with an interest in the space who can help us make it happen.

• You’ll be someone who thrives on uncertainty and loves to make an impact
• You’ll be passionate about what you do and that shows through your enthusiasm and communication
• Your values will align with that of the company’s, you’ll care about sustainability and creating a better future for our planet
• You’ll enjoy contributing across the whole development process including design, product management and stay on top of upcoming technologies that could benefit the business
• The home retrofitting industry and Kraken Field as a product are rapidly expanding, and are a hugely important part of decarbonising the planet - you’ll have big responsibility from day one and really help influence how we scale the technology to make that happen
• Be able to discuss vision and features within a team and propose creative solutions
• Be proficient with Kotlin and have experimented with other programming languages
• Have a good knowledge of Jetpack Compose having used it in a professional environment
• Be passionate about app architecture and can talk about the benefits and drawbacks of various patterns (MVC, MVVM, Redux)
• Be passionate about great app design and user experience
• Have used Graph
  
  QL or are interested in learning
• Have knowledge of reactive libraries, offline storage, API integration, and testing
• Be familiar with source control best practices and continuous integration
• Be excited to explore cross platform code sharing solutions (whilst keeping the UI 100% native)

• Kraken Field is a multifunctional team made up of product, backend, design, mobile, web and more - all focused together on making Octopus the go-to name in green home installations. And we’re looking for smart individuals with an interest in the space who can help us make it happen
• As well as being part of Kraken Field you’ll be part of a large team of mobile developers across Octopus with projects spanning Electric Vehicles, Energy usage flexibility, Energy accounts, Smart home devices, Acquisitions and Engineer solutions
• All our apps are built with declarative UI frameworks (Jetpack Compose & Swift
  
  UI), all our APIs are built in Graph
  
  QL, and we use a modern selection of libraries and software development techniques
• We have projects in pure iOS/Swift, others in pure Android/Kotlin and we also use Kotlin Multiplatform in larger projects to share code between native codebases

Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia. In the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7. Check out our Welcome to the Jungle site (FR/EN) to learn more about our teams and culture.

Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. If you have any specific accommodations or a unique preference, please contact us at inclusionh and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process…