Senior Software Engineer - Future Opportunities

Our Power and Low Carbon Solutions practice is growing and we will be looking for experienced Platform Software Engineers to join the team. If you are interested in roles like the one described here, please register your interest and we'll be in touch as soon as something suitable becomes available.

Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights these models provide to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. We deal with highly varied modelling, data, and processing - everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years.  

Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and utilise a variety of technologies, tools and analytical modelling approaches. They need rapid access to data, analytics outputs, and processing through GUIs, APIs and other systems, whilst being given the confidence that everything is compliant, licenced and well-governed. Our scale and model complexity has now reached a point that to continue to achieve our business vision, we are building a dedicated global Platform team.  

We will be looking for experienced software engineers to join as core members of this team to help architect, implement and support the tools that will be fundamental to Baringa’s ongoing growth and success. 

This is a high calibre team, where curiosity and a thirst to understand the problem space is not just encouraged, but prioritised. There will be a range of engineering challenges to solve at all levels, requiring the flexibility to adopt the right technology for a given problem space. Our next generation platform will be core to driving significant improvements to the lives and capabilities of our Baringa colleagues in the energy modelling space. Successful candidates will be given responsibility and freedom from day one, trusted to challenge and be challenged in turn, in an environment that rewards creativity and entrepreneurship as we build the foundations for Baringa’s future. 

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 will be looking for an experienced software engineer to be a core member of the new Platform team, working closely with the Engineering Lead. You will be working within our Energy and Resources group to:

• Be an integral part of the design, build, and ongoing development of a new data platform, with associated tools and software - this will be almost entirely greenfield opportunities to create a holistic user experience for Baringa staff. You will assist the Engineering Lead in the selection of technologies and approaches to build everything from big data platforms through to browser plugins and shared functional libraries.
• Work closely with the Engineering Lead to engage tool developers, energy system modellers, client facing energy experts and users across the business to build a platform and supporting toolchain that fulfils the needs of your Baringa colleagues. 
• Be a driving force in the development, automated testing and deployment of the new platform, utilising best-practices to ensure quality, reliability and monitoring is built-in from inception. 
• Work with the team to build a DevOps pipeline with robust CI and CD practices, with a focus on evolving our processes to improve our team’s engineering experience. 
• Be an active part of the team’s agile development approach, from refinement through to demonstration and feedback, helping drive the continuous improvement of team processes as we grow and mature.  

Your skills and experience:

We will be looking for people to join the team who will be committed to designing and building high quality and fit-for-purpose systems, enabling our staff to maximise the creation, utilisation and management of the various models, tools and data frameworks that enable market-leading insights for our clients.

• You are passionate about building the ‘right’ solution to problems, and understanding the ‘why’ behind what you’re building to support Baringa’s work in the energy sector.
• You have practical experience as a senior engineer in highly motivated engineering team(s), collaborating closely with colleagues and taking pride in what you create. 
• You are great at problem solving and see all technologies/engineering as a means to achieve this. 
• You have advanced working knowledge of a general programming language (e.g. Scala, Python, Java, C# etc.) and understand both domain modelling and application programming. 
• You have working knowledge of data management platforms (SQL, NoSQL, Spark/Databricks etc.) 
• You have working knowledge of modern software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines), cloud technologies (Azure, AWS) and IaC (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) 
• You have worked with different frameworks throughout technology stacks (e.g. React/Angular/Vue/Blazor frontends etc., FastAPI/Spring Boot/Django/.NET backends etc.) 
• You have experience building and working across 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 colleagues and clients 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 its effective use. 

We’ve seen the research that says that some candidates will not apply to a role if they don’t meet every requirement, so don’t 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.