JOIN US, BE PART OF MORE.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We’re energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that’s energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY YOUR PART

We are seeking a talented L8 - Assistant Software Engineer to join a cross functional team in Digital Technology Services, a core function that provides engineering services to the rest of Centrica. Our cross functional teams are responsible for building, testing, and running their platforms in production. Working with Product Owners to define the roadmaps you will be instrumental in the success of delivering new technology and your teams will enable the growth of Centrica with your SaaS platforms.
Location: You can work in Windsor/home; we have people working all over the UK but also a range of office locations.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows:

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

ACCOUNTABILITIES

As an Assistant Software Engineer within the Integration Engineering Team, you will build and drive engineering solutions and best practices across Centrica’s Integration platforms and other internal platforms managed by the team. You will be heavily involved in designing, building, and managing End to End solutions across a variety of platforms including AWS, Azure, and Salesforce.
The team primarily uses Java & Spring, with our services deployed to AWS, though we use Typescript and Azure too. Platforms are hosted on either microservices hosted on Kubernetes or Serverless architectures. We use SQL as well as NoSQL databases within our platforms, Terraform for IaC and Datadog for monitoring.

The Integration Engineering team is part of a larger group of Product and Engineering community in DTS, alongside our development work there will be opportunities to:

• Work on innovation projects in hackathons both in Centrica and with our partners (AWS, Microsoft, Datadog etc.)
• Influence and define the technical strategy for your team and how it interacts with the rest of the platforms.
• Influence and drive specialist areas like Security, SRE, and Quality if you are passionate about that space

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• Have experience building Java/Spring applications
• Have experience building Serverless and Event Driven architectures on AWS
• Have experience with containerisation technologies using Docker, Kubernetes or similar
• Proficiency in using Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible or similar tools
• Strong experience using API technologies
• Have knowledge of engineering best practices and continuous delivery
• Are passionate about building quality software and delighting customers
• Responsible for proactively improving the practices of deployment, monitoring, alerting and incident handling within the team

Please refer the Job description for details