Utility Warehouse
Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
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Senior Software Engineer – Energy Team
We’re UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing everything—energy, broadband, mobile, and insurance—in one place. One unified bill, significant savings, and less wasted time and money for our customers.
With ambitious goals to double our size and help more people streamline their lives, big results are delivered by teams and individuals like you.
Our way of working is hands-on and full of ownership.
- We operate in small, autonomous teams with real ownership of their products.
- Energy is at the heart of UW, with over 95% of our customers including at least one Energy service.
- As a Senior Software Engineer in the Energy team, you’ll work on high-impact projects such as:
- The Energy Transformation programme
- The Market Wide Half Hourly Settlement, which will power future innovations at UW.
You’ll be joining the Products, Tariffs and Discounts team, a core part of this transformation. You’ll work primarily with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes to support our tariff management platform—the backbone of our energy solutions.
This Is For You
UW is about people first. We’re looking for a backend-focused senior engineer with the skills and mindset to thrive across our core energy platforms. You’ll:
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- Own end-to-end deployments in your team’s Kubernetes environments.
- Contribute to cyber-resilient, SLA-driven systems that prioritise reliability and uptime.
- Enjoy solving distributed systems challenges while mentoring others.
- Excel in collaboration, low-ego teamwork, and pragmatic problem-solving.
What You’ll Be Doing
Based on our Engineering Career Progression Framework, in this role, you’ll:
- Define team goals, ensuring work aligns with our objectives and drive impactful prioritisation.
- Take technical leadership by designing and implementing complex solutions, influencing best practices across wider engineering.
- Demonstrate expertise in multiple stack technologies.
- Own technical decisions within your team.
- Own large technical features from end-to-end, balancing speed and quality.
- Provide visionary direction to your squad while proactively reducing technical debt.
- Build strategic business insights on how your team’s work contributes to our multi-service approach.
- Lead with culture: Mentor and teach others, ensuring collaboration that embraces all voices.
- Drive multidisciplinary projects under pressure to deliver results.
What You’ll Need
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To succeed here, you’ll bring:
Technical Expertise (Required)
✔ A strong, hands-on production background with Go (non-negotiable). ✔ Proven fluency in PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes. ✔ Deep experience in distributed systems, including concurrency, event-driven architecture, and fault tolerance. ✔ A solid foundation in resilience, observability, SLA management, and progressive degradation strategies. ✔ Experience in end-to-end engineering: design, build, deployment, and ongoing support. ✔ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows. ✔ Skill in Kafka upgrades or database migrations (e.g., CockroachDB → RDS) as a bonus.
Mindset & Experience
✔ A collaborative, pragmatic approach with low ego—envisioning the bigger picture rather than commercrants. ✔ Comfortable working in autonomous, product-focused teams where initiative matters as much as execution. ✔ Strong mentoring skills and experience in maintaining best practices through pairing and code reviews. ✔ A track record of leading complex projects and navigating uncertainties to drive delivery.
Your Advancement
With UW, senior engineering roles have a clear progression:
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