Data Engineer (Mid or Senior - Bilingual 🇯🇵)

Octopus Energy

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Tokyo, JP, Japan

Posted on: 2023-11-27

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

We're on a mission to make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.

That means making power greener, smarter, and more affordable for everyone.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do: with always-fair prices, transparency and outrageous customer service.

We drive system change: with transformative tech to make renewable energy the norm and end global reliance on fossil fuels.

Octopus Energy Group is made up of 10 businesses spanning 6 countries across 3 continents, including: Octopus Energy Retail, Kraken Technologies, Octopus Energy Generation, Kraken Flex, Octopus Electric Vehicles, and the Octopus Centre for Net Zero. More on OEG @ octopusenergy.group

Help us make a big green dent in the universe. We're on a mission to drive the global renewable energy revolution, and we need loads more people to help us make our vision a reality.

About Octopus Energy

Since 2015, Octopus has been on a mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world. With the help of our in-house developed technology platform, Kraken, we’ve become the 4th largest energy supplier in the UK, opened retailers in 7 other countries, and licensed our software to retail giants including E.ON in the UK, Origin Energy in Australia, and Tokyo Gas in Japan. We’ve reinvented energy products with smart, data-driven tariffs to balance customer demand with renewable generation - and we’re the biggest investor in renewable generation in the UK.

Since we have expanded our tentacles to Japan we are looking to hire a Data Engineer. This role is based in Tokyo primarily to support Octopus Energy Japan and Kraken deployments for Japanese customers, but will be part of the wider APAC data platform engineering team.

Working with Octopus Energy is a chance to join an exciting scale-up business within the energy supply sector, one that’s at the forefront of changing the landscape of the energy industry worldwide. A role with us offers you the chance to contribute to building world-class operations that will catapult you into a fantastic career.

About the team

At Octopus we have developed a platform to provide data services to our retail businesses and clients across 17 deployments globally.

The data platform engineering team develops and manages the back-end systems and processes supporting this platform, predominantly working with time-series data fed into the system by our customers’ smart meters. We have developed a suite of applications to process, transform, and make this data available to downstream services.

To process the volume of data we typically see, our applications run PySpark or dbt jobs using Databricks as our Spark engine. We leverage Airflow and Kubernetes heavily. We also employ software engineering best practices to design, test, and deploy our data platform and services.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on data problems that genuinely move us closer to Net Zero with a company that is passionate about building great technology to change the way customers use energy.

As a data engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and supporting the constant improvement of our data platform. As well as working on our core datalake transformations you may be developing custom applications to process third-party data, managing infrastructure in our AWS deployment, or working to expand our presence across our APAC (Australia, New Zealand, Japan) deployments.

Key responsibilities:

- Developing and deploying dbt pipelines to support internal analytics teams

- Maintaining and managing data platform infrastructure

- Supporting our core PySpark data pipeline to feed data to downstream applications

- Responding to internal requests

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

About you

We are looking for a hire who will self-manage, adapt to our changing business requirements, and proactively work to scope problems and deliver pragmatic solutions.

You have experience:

Working with Terraform and Kubernetes

Building applications in Python

Developing data transformation pipelines in SQL or dbt

Working in a Spark or Databricks environment

Working in a software or data engineering environment

Business level English and Japanese skills for interacting with the global Kraken team and Japanese clients

We also want our data engineers to be great software engineers with a passion for writing quality code, so it would be helpful to have experience in at least some of the following:

Cloud data platforms (Ideally AWS)

Airflow

Version control and DevOps best practices

What you'll love about us

Our company culture - we won best company to work for in 2019 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people

Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together

Relaxation - we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)

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 success

Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. 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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