Mobile Engineer II

Mobile at Kraken

We’re building an innovative mobile platform to scale inline with Kraken’s growing client base, with flexible solutions to meet the needs of customers across multiple utilities. Kraken is a disruptor in the energy sector, the capabilities we offer are helping to drive the transition to a cleaner energy system, as a mobile team we aim to build first in class mobile solutions to support those goals. 

Kraken is in a period of rapid growth, bringing huge opportunities for the right person to be involved in projects with organisational level impact. We’re building a team to work fluently, move fast, and make a tangible difference in energy tech and beyond. Our current projects span electric vehicles, energy retail, smart home device management, heat pumps, and more. Our projects are ambitious and seek to help Kraken’s clients such as Octopus Energy, their customers, and the clean energy transition.

Our Team

We launched the new Octopus Energy app with a small team of 4 engineers, product, and design in 2021. Since then we’ve grown to multiple cross-functional teams, 20+ mobile engineers, and serve over three million monthly active customers in 8 different countries, and a growing number of client apps across multiple utilities. 

We’re expanding to meet the challenges of rolling out a single platform which supports diverse utility markets around the world. Every team member helps define culture and processes necessary to work collaboratively and effectively across multiple product teams, whilst instilling good engineering practices for the team as a whole.

Our Technology

As an organisation we like to move quickly. This is true both in how we operate as a business and the technology choices we make. We were very early adopters of Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and used the technology when it was in pre-alpha, at scale, to great success. It helps us share code across Android and iOS without the user experience tradeoffs.

KMP was officially released in late 2023 so we don’t expect our applicants to have experience using it. It powers the extensive shared layer across our Android and iOS apps, with UI powered by Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI. Our app is built around offline-first reactive patterns and utilises unidirectional data flow with a layered architecture. Our view models are written using Jetpack Compose and compliment our state driven UI.

We release updates to customers weekly. We gain release confidence with our suite of automation and unit tests running in CI (GitHub Actions), and configure features remotely using feature flags.

What you'll do

• You’ll help us scale the mobile platform to meet the needs of Kraken clients across multiple different utilities and markets. 
• Build consumer apps for new and existing clients. 
• Evolve the architecture of the codebase, build out tooling, distribution and process improvements to support the growing number of apps and customers, work closely with client delivery leads, product managers and the wider mobile engineering team.

What you'll have

• You’ll be someone who appreciates the impact a nimble team can make on customers and clean energy.
• Your passion for clean energy and sustainability will help provide context on your everyday work.
• You will thrive with us if you can effectively communicate with coworkers in different timezones.
• You’ll enjoy contributing across the whole development process including design and product.
• Experience as an Android developer, or iOS/Swift developer (commercial or open source), with a desire to work across both iOS and Android using Kotlin.
• Finally, you’re interested in staying on top of upcoming technologies that could benefit our team.

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

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. Need any specific accommodations? 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!

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.