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Team: AVASalary banding: £75,000 - £100,000Working pattern: Full-TimeReporting to: Head of Engineering - OperationsSponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.Top 3 qualities for this role: Stakeholder Management, Communication, Organisation. 

Where you’ll work: 

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn't work for everyone. That's why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You'll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

Building strong teams is a vitally important aspect of the role, so you’ll be heavily involved in recruitment, onboarding and personal development of engineers. Working closely with the teams’ Product Managers and Agile Coaches to make sure they are balancing quality and flow with delivery of phenomenal products to our customers.

We have a very strong engineering culture that’s all about empowerment and ownership: all to tackle one of the world’s greatest problems

This role in a nutshell:

You will look after a brand-new squad in OVO’s contact centre space, which is using groundbreaking Generative AI technology to bring a new level of automation. 

Looking after a multi-disciplinary squad (a mix of direct and professional services based personnel) of software, data and machine learning engineers. You’ll work closely with colleagues in Data Science and Product to help craft the roadmap and balance moving at pace with robust engineering practices.

You’ll focus on developing your team’s skills, alongside architecture, data pipelines, integration, security, quality and continuous development.

Is the job for me? 

• Passionate about nurturing engineering talent, encouraging their development, and also ensuring everyone is aligned with product delivery objectives
• Genuinely excited about developing products that will positively impact over a million people and also our environment
• You use your influence and stakeholder management skills to have wide-reaching impact
• Love building scalable, resilient products
• Seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager who…

• Is passionate about technical excellence, you’ll find a strong culture of agile, automated testing, frequent deployments to production, and using agile practices
• Loves working with multi-functional teams that are product focussed, and are responsible for the entirety of their product, including feature conception, architecture, coding, testing, continuous deployment, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, setting SLOs, and support
• Has experience of working with novel technologies, preferably in the machine learning and AI space

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £75,000 and £100,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..