Manager, Senior Platform Software Engineer

Our Energy Products Practice is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join the team. 

Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights generated through these models to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. The Energy Products practice specialises in the development and innovation of our analytical models and supporting technology ecosystem underpinned by our deep expertise in the energy markets.

Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and building models that utilise highly varied data sources – everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and highly scalable data processing infrastructure. Our scale and model complexity has reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Data and Processing Platform team.

Come and join us to be part of the energy transition, the defining challenge of our lifetimes, where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.

What you will be doing

We are looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join as a core member of the Data and Processing Platform team, taking on a key role alongside the Engineering Lead to build the foundations and shared capabilities that support Baringa’s continued growth and evolution. 

• You will help shape the design, implementation and ongoing support of a greenfield Data and Processing Platform and its supporting software products

• You will support the Engineering Lead to engage with internal developers, energy system modellers, client-facing energy experts, and users across the business to build capabilities that enable them to work more effectively and better serve our clients.

• You will help drive engineering best practices, ensuring that quality, reliability and observability are built into our products from inception.

• You will design and implement robust CI/CD automation flows, continually evolving our processes to improve the engineering experience for ourselves and the teams we support.

• You will take an active role in all stages of the team’s agile development approach, from refinement through to delivery, supporting the iterative improvement of our team processes.

Your skills and experience

• You are passionate about building the ‘right’ solution to problems, with a desire to understand the problems at their core and ‘why’ a solution is fit for purpose.

• You will have practical experience as a senior engineer in high-performing engineering teams, collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create.

• You are strong at solving complex problems and can flexibly consider different technologies/engineering approaches to achieve this.

• You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Python, Java, C#, Typescript etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming.

• You have working knowledge of data management technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Databricks etc.)

• You have working knowledge of modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)

• You have worked across the technology stack with experience of established frameworks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends and/or FastAPI/Spring Boot/.NET backends)

• You have experience building and supporting different architectural approaches and are confident in justifying your technology and architectural choices.

• You are passionate about communicating complex concepts succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences to reach a common understanding.

• You have experience working with agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban), with an understanding of the key principles that underpin their effective use.

We’ve seen research that says some candidates will not apply to a role if they don’t meet every requirement, but please do not let this put you off. If you think you are a good overall match please do get in touch – we look carefully at all applications, and you may well be our ideal candidate.

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.