Software Engineer
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Software Engineer at Habitat Energy: Oxford, United Kingdom; Hybrid; IT; Back End Engineer. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Oxford, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: IT, Back End Engineer
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-27.
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Software Engineer
Habitat Energy is a fast growing technology company focussed on the physical and financial optimisation of energy storage and renewable generation assets globally through complex models and trading. By maximising the returns from these assets we aim to drive investment in renewable energy and accelerate the transition to a low carbon world. Our rapidly growing team of 130+ people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.
We have a vacancy for a Software Engineer to join our UK Software team based in Oxford. In this role, you will be part of the team responsible for building, maintaining and evolving our renewable energy platform. This platform enables our trading and operations teams to manage and optimise one of the largest fleet of battery energy storage sites in the UK. You will be joining a number of talented, multi-disciplined software engineers who want to build resilient, scalable software to help enable the net-zero transition.
Your responsibilities will include:
Developing and maintaining our applications
- Maintain existing code and own brand new applications. We have written and deployed dozens of different microservice APIs and UIs covering asset dispatch and monitoring, trade management and exposure, reporting and settlements, market interfaces for manual and automated trading, data consumers required for forecasting and optimization. Operations and markets keep changing and so do we.
Collaborating with internal teams to understand challenges and work towards defining solutions
- Interface with traders, data scientists, ops analysts and other software engineers to understand the needs and requirements from our software. Navigate the different market and third party tooling to help architect robust and scalable solutions.
Ensuring that software is designed, built, released and maintained in accordance with our SDLC process
- Write clean and tested code. Check deployments on our Kubernetes cluster are successful and work as expected. Write clear documentation, including troubleshooting runbooks, to enable on-call support. Participate positively in peer reviews for and from colleagues to ensure the quality of all our software applications.
Participating in rotating on-call support of operations
- All software engineers are expected to take an equal share of the tech-on-call rota. This forms the first point of call for software support issues. Utilising runbooks, support Trading and Operations in live troubleshooting, using the escalation procedure as required.