About us
One of the biggest things we can all do to tackle climate change is switch to clean power. At Good Energy, we've been giving people that choice since 1999. We supply thousands of homes and businesses with 100% renewable electricity, sourced from local, independent generators. And, by working with our customers, generators and investors, we're achieving our purpose of powering a cleaner, greener future together.
We're now beginning an exciting new chapter in our story, which will see us explore innovative ways to help more and more homes and businesses use clean, renewable power. To do this, we need talented people to join us. And that's where you come in. Join us, and become part of a team whose day-to-day work contributes to building a more sustainable world for us all.
About the function and role
We have a relatively new team of developers, BAs and testers that is growing as we invest further in providing great digital experiences for our current and future customers. Supported by the UX team, we use SCRUM and believe that self-organising teams, given the right tools and organisational culture, can deliver at pace.
Deliver development capability. Provide technical and people leadership within the development team. Drive continuous improvement and embed industry best practices. Contribute towards individual developer performance and professional development through line management, mentoring and collaborative working practises.
The role will Provide leadership to all developers in a way that supports high performance and engagement over the longer term, and supporting the Technical Architect with regards to the direction and implementation of developer tooling and practices roadmap (including, but not limited to CI/CD, test-driven development, choice of development stacks). Support the Technical Architect with regards to the development practice across Good Energy to enable ever-improving development velocity and quality across Scrum teams.
The role will ensure individual developers' skills are working effectively within Scrum teams and identify emerging skill needs for developers, continuously ensuring high performance of the team. In addition, you will seek opportunities to introduce compelling new technologies that will enhance functional capability, improve technical delivery and support implementation.
About you
we are seeking a proactive individual with significant technical experience and interest in participating and growing a high performing development team. Comfortable balancing own deliverables and leading direct reports. Strong understanding of Agile principles and implementations. A desire to continuously seek out improvements sourced from their own experience, suggestions from the developers or good practice from the broader software development industry.
You will be a champion for growing a progressive, diverse and inclusive developer community, participating in industry events to raise our profile. You will possess demonstrable experience of delivering high quality code across a full stack in a fast paced agile environment and a strong experience of modern JS frameworks for building SPAs, eg ReactJS as well as related techniques/technologies such as CSS, unit testing, state management etc.
With experience using SCRUM or other Agile methodologies, you will have strong experience of C# .net for middle and Back End development. You will have a good understanding of a range of development best practises across development, eg design patterns, testability, messaging patterns etc and experience in the full software development life cycle.
We also have some amazing benefits that we offer our people, including:
* Travel allowance at all levels
* Green Travel Allowance
* Bonus at all levels
* Pension matched up to 7.5%
* 5 weeks annual leave with option to buy more
* Flexible working practices across many roles
Along with many more benefits
Our Purpose: 'Powering the choice of cleaner greener future, together'
Our Values:
Straightforward
We are straightforward in how we communicate with each other and get things done
Determined
We are determined and resilient, overcoming challenges to realise our purpose together.
Inclusive
We value people's differences and recognise the strength they give us when we work together
Fair
In fulfilling our purpose, we aim to balance fairly the needs of our people with those of our customers, our shareholders and our futureholders.
Good Energy is based in Chippenham, Wiltshire. We've been here since the very beginning, and are busy planning a new state-of-the-art headquarters to call our future home. We're just a two-minute walk away from the train station, with fast connections to Bristol, Swindon and the surrounding area.