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# Full Stack Engineer

- **Company:** Octopus Energy Ltd
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Engineering, Backend, Front End Software Development, Automation Anywhere
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-full-stack-engineer-octopus-energy-10167671

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience with our stack (listed below)
 * Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
 * Confidence owning the development cycle (request, requirements gathering, technical proposal, technical execution, deployment and monitoring.)
 * Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
 * An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
 * The ability to develop websites that meet strong accessibility guidelines
 * Experience building scalable, performant sites that handle high levels of traffic well
 * Eager to drive cross-functional work spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, and infrastructure.
 * Pragmatic AI mindset, experience with AI Workflows & Tooling: building harnesses, custom agent skills, MCP integrations, token minimisation strategies, etc.
 * Desirable: energy domain knowledge

## Description

* Serve as a bridge across our entire stack, building end-to-end capabilities while helping frontend developers get comfortable with backend/infra and vice versa
 * Take full ownership of features end-to-end, delivering reliable, production-ready code with plenty of autonomy
 * Shape the architecture of brand-new projects from scratch while giving our existing codebases the refactoring love they need
 * Maintain high frontend standards in AI-assisted workflows by vetting AI outputs, catching edge cases, and protecting long-term code health
 * Communicate technical ideas clearly and concisely, prioritising high-signal context
 * Keep our releases smooth with automated CI/CD workflows and set up production monitoring to track app health
 * Work closely with product managers and designers to find the leanest, most efficient paths to ship value


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