What You'll Do

• Build and maintain the backend services that run and serve Modo's energy forecasting models — Django REST Framework APIs, Celery task pipelines, and the data layers that connect them
• Work directly with data scientists and energy analysts to take new models to production, making sure they run reliably and return results customers can trust
• Design and optimise job orchestration for compute-intensive modelling workloads — scheduling, retries, monitoring, and scaling via Celery, AWS, and Airflow
• Own AWS infrastructure and deployment across the full lifecycle — local development through to production — using Terraform and Docker
• Build monitoring, alerting, and validation tooling to catch model failures and data quality issues before customers do
• Own your projects end-to-end, from architecture and design through the full development lifecycle, deploying into a live production environment.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of Python with strong backend fundamentals — clean, well-structured code, comfortable owning services end-to-end from API design through to deployment and monitoring
• Solid experience with Django REST Framework in production
• Proficiency with Celery for task orchestration and background processing
• Production experience with Docker, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Strong testing habits — pytest, fixtures, mocking, CI pipelines that actually catch things
• Expert-level use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) — knowing when to trust them, when to intervene, and how to get the most out of them
• Good taste and judgment — you'll be making constant decisions about how to structure data pipelines, what to optimise, and when something is ready to ship

Nice to Have

• Experience taking quantitative models to production
• Familiarity with energy markets
• Familiarity with time-series data
• Any start-up / scale-up experience is beneficial.

The Company

• At Modo Energy, we're on a mission to build the information architecture for the energy transition - we want to be the only place to come to for information on the global journey to net zero.
• We are looking for individuals who love product-building, want to work with pace at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a rapidly growing team.
• Hybrid Work Environment : This role is hybrid, with time split between working from home and our London office (Euston Square), with in-office days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive market rates - we want the best engineers!
• Employee Equity Scheme
• Private Top-Tier Healthcare and Dental coverage with Bupa, a Pension scheme with employer contribution, 25 days of annual leave (excluding bank holidays), 5 flexible days to be taken on a Monday or Friday. And lots of snacks and drinks – obviously!