Salary: Up to £45,000

Start Date: 3rd March 2025

Location: London / Hybrid (2-4 days in the office per month)

About the role:

Guru collects a billion measurements a month on the performance of complex district wide heat networks and per property heat apparatus, taking this wealth of data to drive industry leading analytics and insights to allow operators to reduce carbon emissions and user energy bills. This role participates in the technical delivery of projects to build our solution and products, and operate the services that they depend on.

You’ll work on our cloud software applications that work in conjunction with our large fleet of remotely managed devices. As an Intermediate level Software Engineer you’ll be working closely with more experienced colleagues with exposure to the full product & service lifecycle from specification & architecture through to release & operation.

You’ll work with the team to deliver high quality software and solutions which provide an acceptable service uptime to our clients, and you’ll be closely involved with real world applications with a large user base, where necessary helping out to investigate and fix issues that occur with our production software – because we believe that operational experience is a great way to learn how to build systems that are easy to operate.

You’ll work in our Product & Engineering team of 12 and participate in the definition of our solution architecture, then implement major components of software applications under the guidance of a Senior Software Engineer, taking these through to deployment and any necessary fixing any problems. You’ll also review code changes for correctness, architectural clarity and style.

Essential criteria:

• A full stack software engineer with a passion for writing great software
• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Mandatory experience : Python 3, Javascript, SQL databases & language, LINUX
• Strongly desired experience : Django or FLASK Python frameworks (other common Python frameworks will be considered)
• Desired Experience : JS libraries such as react.js, vue.js
• Nice to have : NoSQL, Grafana, Gitlab, AWS
• Ideally with a 1st/2:1 from a top tier university
• Experience of software operating in a cloud based environment offering products and services to real users
• Excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, with the ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English.
• Strong empathy and the capacity to react calmly and efficiently in a scale-up environment

Benefits:

Reporting to a Senior Software Engineer, this is a full time permanent role with 25 days’ holiday each year.

• Be part of a growing innovative business and help shape the future of energy
• Collaborative, flexible and friendly environment
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with additional holiday entitlement after two years service up to 30 days
• Health insurance including a dental allowance
• Bespoke personal development budget of £1,500 per annum
• Guru Systems will match 5% pension contributions
• We host regular socials and are always finding creative ways of staying connected with each other
• 2 Volunteer / Social Engagement Days
• To our loyal Gurus (1+ years) we offer work from anywhere for one month of the year
• We offer great perks and discounts with free access to health and wellness support and more.