We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technology Product Developer within Hive’s platform team. You will contribute to building new, as well as improving existing Hive services and solutions for smart home systems.

You will be involved in the latest Hive trends helping our customers to transition towards net-zero by developing solutions like electric vehicle charging and assisting heating customers to keep an eye on their energy usage and save on their gas bills by continuously improving the new Hive Heating Plus service.

You will be part of the team that is encouraged to investigate and adopt the latest technology trends into Hive’s services. You will be customer-focused by providing efficient and reliable components while at the same time is cost-aware in system designs. You will work on the wide range of Hive platform systems that utilize a large portion of AWS Cloud’s technology stack. The logical problems and solutions that Hive are facing in the quickly growing smart home industry will mean no two working days feel the same.

Day-to-day accountabilities

You will:

• Develop new services and solutions for Hive’s ecosystem and will be expected to “own” the results

• Make architectural decisions and be responsible for operational robustness, scalability and cost efficiency

• Have operational responsibility for your services in production - “You build it, you run it”

• collaborate closely with other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the services and the overall efforts that the team has committed to

• Mentor junior members of the team to help them achieve the required standards

• Contribute and document code into our GitHub repository, review existing code and pull requests, track the development progress of tasks in our Scrum ban agile project management board

• Maintain, improve, and redesign existing Hive systems to the latest technology standards

What we need from you

• Agile-minded, willing to learn and adopt new technologies

• Good understanding of the Test-Driven Development and CI/CD practices

• Experience with at least two of the following - Kotlin, GoLang, Python, Java, Scala

• Familiarity with AWS Cloud, especially with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudFormation

• Experience with serverless.com and/or AWS SAM frameworks

• Experience with GitHub, Maven, Gradle

• Nice to have - experience with AWS EC2, Spring Framework, MySQL, AWS Cognito, AWS IoT, AWS Code Pipeline

Education: Degree in Computers /IT or relevant work experience

Location: You can work in Park House, or at home, we have people working all over the UK but also a range of office locations

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs.

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

• Competitive salary and bonus potential

• Car allowance

• Employee Energy Allowance

• Pension scheme

• Electric car lease scheme

• 25 days holiday allowance, public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills, and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

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At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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