<div><b style="font-size:18px;">What we do. </b><span style="font-size:18px;">Electric Car Leasing </span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:18px;">Why we do it.</b><span style="font-size:18px;"> Greener. Fairer. Future.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p>At Octopus Electric Vehicles we’ve built a data platform that provides data services to all areas of our business. The aim of the platform is to enable self-service of data analytics to data hungry internal users as well as automation of all our data workflows - from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction. </p><p>The data team at OEV is growing at speed. We have invested time and resources on establishing a core data platform, and are now leveraging technology to automate processes and reporting, so we can focus on improving how our data platform works as a system - from improving data latency and reliability, to thinking about making our data ready for productionised data science applications.</p><p>We are looking for an experienced data engineer that is equally passionate about using technology to grow the business and decarbonise the UK’s fleet.</p><p>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 travel sustainably.</p><br><br><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><div><li><p>Own and optimise our platform architecture (improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc)</p></li><li><p>Build new data sources and data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business (this will include integration with third party systems and ingestion through APIs)</p></li><li><p>Scope and deliver new data engineering projects in collaboration with business stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to help build out our ever-growing AI requirements and use cases</p></li><li><p>Collaborate closely with our dev teams to build seamless integrations between our back-end databases and our data platform</p></li><li><p>Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices</p></li></div></ul><h3>What you'll have</h3><ul><p>You don’t need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus.</p><li><p>First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation</p></li><li><p>Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end</p></li><li><p>A passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes</p></li><li><p>Experience with distributed data processing</p></li><li><p>Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality</p></li><li><p>Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources e.g. parquet, SQL &amp; no-SQL databases, API endpoints</p></li><li><p>It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following:</p></li><li><p>Python</p></li><li><p>AWS</p></li><li><p>Kubernetes</p></li><li><p>Spark &amp; distributed computing</p></li><li><p>dbt</p></li><li><p>Terraform</p></li><li><p>Data Warehousing (we use Databricks but experience with other platforms is fine)</p></li><li><p>MLOps implementation (desirable but not required)</p></li><li><p>Airflow (or other orchestration tooling)</p></li><li><p>Governance</p></li></ul><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul><li>💰 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!</li><li>🎉 Octopus Energy Group 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! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - <a href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a><br><br></li><li>🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-big/">best company to work for in 2024</a>. We were named 6th out of the <a href="https://www.heytempo.com/super-startups-list-2025/">top 100 start-ups</a> to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted <a href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-2022-LST_KQ0,27.htm">50 best places to work</a> in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a <a href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/">podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the <a href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/">top 10 companies for senior leadership</a></li></ul><h3>Things to note</h3><ul><div><li>🐶 <em>Just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies</em></li><li><p><em>🤖 We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too. That said, when we get to the interview and assessment stage, we’re really interested in hearing your unique perspective and real-world stories. That’s the stuff we can’t get from a bot or a prompt!</em></p></li></div></ul><br><div><strong style="font-size:18px;">About us </strong></div><div> </div><div>The electric revolution has arrived - and from 2035 you’ll no longer be able to buy a new petrol or diesel car in the UK. </div><div> </div><div>We’re building a whole new way for drivers to join the electric charge and not only learn about and shop for their EV online, but experience a 'lease for life' through an industry changing customer experience. This is the chance to join one of the UK’s most exciting start-ups – making it easy for individuals and businesses to go electric by getting their car, charger and energy all in one cracking deal.</div><div> </div><div>Octopus Electric Vehicles launched in 2018 to make it seamless to switch to cleaner, greener driving. Our mission is to drive sustainable change, decarbonise the planet and provide our customers with fair pricing and a fantastic experience. </div><div> </div><div>We're an Octopus Energy company—an innovative new energy supplier. We are part of the Octopus Energy Group, which seeks to improve the lives of millions of people by transforming the industries we operate in. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Healthcare, Octopus Investments, Octopus Property, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.</div><div><br></div><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div>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. <b>Need any specific accommodations? </b>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>

<p><b>Welcome to the future of energy</b><br></p><p><b><span>We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, automation and simplicity. Better for the planet, through real long-term investment in renewable generation and a low CO2 future. We make energy green and flexible for consumers, with fair and transparent pricing. Through our home developed platform, cloud-based billing, and sophisticated use of data science, modelling and AI, we’re redefining what is possible in energy.&nbsp;</span></b></p><p><b><br><span>Formerly operating as Evolve Energy, our efforts have not gone unnoticed and we are extremely 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.</span></b></p><p><br>We recently secured over £500 million of investment from<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-energy-achieves-unicorn-status-investment-origin-energy/" data-mce-href="https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-energy-achieves-unicorn-status-investment-origin-energy/">Origin,</a><span>&nbsp;</span>Australia's largest Energy Company and<a href="https://octopus.energy/press/octopus-energy-group-enters-asia-landmark-partnership-tokyo-gas/" data-mce-href="https://octopus.energy/press/octopus-energy-group-enters-asia-landmark-partnership-tokyo-gas/"><span>&nbsp;</span>Tokyo Gas,<span>&nbsp;</span></a>to help us continue on our mission.</p>

Data Engineer

<div><b>What we do. </b><span>Electric Car Leasing </span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Why we do it.</b><span> Greener. Fairer. Future.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p>At Octopus Electric Vehicles we’ve built a data platform that provides data services to all areas of our business. The aim of the platform is to enable self-service of data analytics to data hungry internal users as well as automation of all our data workflows - from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction. </p><p>The data team at OEV is growing at speed. We have invested time and resources on establishing a core data platform, and are now leveraging technology to automate processes and reporting, so we can focus on improving how our data platform works as a system - from improving data latency and reliability, to thinking about making our data ready for productionised data science applications.</p><p>We are looking for an experienced data engineer that is equally passionate about using technology to grow the business and decarbonise the UK’s fleet.</p><p>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 travel sustainably.</p><br /><br /><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><div><li><p>Own and optimise our platform architecture (improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc)</p></li><li><p>Build new data sources and data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business (this will include integration with third party systems and ingestion through APIs)</p></li><li><p>Scope and deliver new data engineering projects in collaboration with business stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to help build out our ever-growing AI requirements and use cases</p></li><li><p>Collaborate closely with our dev teams to build seamless integrations between our back-end databases and our data platform</p></li><li><p>Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices</p></li></div></ul><h3>What you'll have</h3><ul><p>You don’t need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus.</p><li><p>First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation</p></li><li><p>Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end</p></li><li><p>A passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes</p></li><li><p>Experience with distributed data processing</p></li><li><p>Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality</p></li><li><p>Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources e.g. parquet, SQL &amp; no-SQL databases, API endpoints</p></li><li><p>It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following:</p></li><li><p>Python</p></li><li><p>AWS</p></li><li><p>Kubernetes</p></li><li><p>Spark &amp; distributed computing</p></li><li><p>dbt</p></li><li><p>Terraform</p></li><li><p>Data Warehousing (we use Databricks but experience with other platforms is fine)</p></li><li><p>MLOps implementation (desirable but not required)</p></li><li><p>Airflow (or other orchestration tooling)</p></li><li><p>Governance</p></li></ul><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul><li>💰 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!</li><li>🎉 Octopus Energy Group 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! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - <a href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a><br /><br /></li><li>🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-big/">best company to work for in 2024</a>. We were named 6th out of the <a href="https://www.heytempo.com/super-startups-list-2025/">top 100 start-ups</a> to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted <a href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-2022-LST_KQ0,27.htm">50 best places to work</a> in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a <a href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/">podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the <a href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/">top 10 companies for senior leadership</a></li></ul><h3>Things to note</h3><ul><div><li>🐶 <em>Just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies</em></li><li><p><em>🤖 We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too. That said, when we get to the interview and assessment stage, we’re really interested in hearing your unique perspective and real-world stories. That’s the stuff we can’t get from a bot or a prompt!</em></p></li></div></ul><br /><div><strong>About us </strong></div><div> </div><div>The electric revolution has arrived - and from 2035 you’ll no longer be able to buy a new petrol or diesel car in the UK. </div><div> </div><div>We’re building a whole new way for drivers to join the electric charge and not only learn about and shop for their EV online, but experience a 'lease for life' through an industry changing customer experience. This is the chance to join one of the UK’s most exciting start-ups – making it easy for individuals and businesses to go electric by getting their car, charger and energy all in one cracking deal.</div><div> </div><div>Octopus Electric Vehicles launched in 2018 to make it seamless to switch to cleaner, greener driving. Our mission is to drive sustainable change, decarbonise the planet and provide our customers with fair pricing and a fantastic experience. </div><div> </div><div>We're an Octopus Energy company—an innovative new energy supplier. We are part of the Octopus Energy Group, which seeks to improve the lives of millions of people by transforming the industries we operate in. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Healthcare, Octopus Investments, Octopus Property, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>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. <b>Need any specific accommodations? </b>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</div><div><br /></div><div>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.</div>

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