Lead Developer, Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer

If you love solving tricky problems, you enjoy a fast-paced environment and you want to have a positive impact for people then this could be the role for you!

We're looking for someone to join our diverse and growing team of 14, to help households always be on the best energy deal, hassle free.

If you love having the freedom to work out the best solution and the autonomy to just do it, then you'll love working with us.

We're a fast-moving, agile, start-up and we're all driven to deliver the best we can. It's always exciting and we work amazingly well as a team, which makes it all great fun.

Personal development is one of our passions and one of our strengths. You'll have a personal development manager to help you make the most of the opportunities.

At Switchd, we always do the right thing. So, whether you're helping people save time and money or reducing carbon emissions, you'll be working on something seriously worthwhile!

We're on a mission to demystify the energy market for households, making it easy to get both the cheapest and greenest energy for your home. Switchd started out with automated energy switching, where we've got a great product, 5
* customer reviews and awesome tech.

More and more households now want to make their house green and are getting frustrated with trying to work out if solar panels, a heat pump or insulation are right for them. So, we've developed our market-first Make My House Green  platform to solve that and help make houses green!

The journey has been awesome so far and what's to come is shaping up to be even better. We're looking for someone to join the team, join the journey and share in the success as we continue to grow.

We're looking for a lead developer to join our team. Our tech team is small but currently growing rapidly, so you'll be joining a fast paced team.

Supported by Tom (our CTO & Co-founder) and by our head of product you'll lead significant tech projects to accelerate the development of the Make My House Green  platform.

Our ideal candidate is someone who can show a passion for development and finding the right solution, is excited about the vision of our company and is an all round good egg.

• Leading on implementation of innovative and exciting Make My House Green  product features (Smart Meter data, energy modelling etc...)
• Working with Tom to design and work through complex challenges and architectural decisions.
• Building front-end UX, as designed by the product team, to delight customers.
• Managing and coaching developers in your team to improve them rapidly.
• Helping to improve and embed the tech team ways-of-working to ensure world-class speed and quality.

You don't need to know how to do all the below yet. We'll teach you anything you don't know. What's important to us is that you are a keen and quick learner!

• Clearly evidenced problem solving ability in previous technology applications.
• A solid understanding of technical architecture.
• A solid understanding of database structures and MYSQL.
• Work well in a small team to rapidly test and build awesome tech.
• Well organised and time effective.
• 3+ years of experience as a developer in a tech startup.
• Friendly and personable.

• Flexible working from home combined with office time as a team.
• Competitive salary, based on experience.
• Share options in the company, so you share in the growth.
• Free Friday team lunches at the local market.
• Working with a talented team who will help you develop.

• Personal development, as a priority, to help you grow.
• Build market-leading tech that immediately benefits our customers.
• Be part of an awesome team and have fun at work.
• Have a positive impact on the planet and love what you do!