UW Technology
We're building the UK's leading multi-service provider through just the right mix of innovative design and product engineering.
Building on 20 years industry experience and knowledge, we have already identified massive opportunities for data and technology to improve our business but are only just scratching the surface.
Find out more about what makes us so unique.
Which? Utilities Brand of the Year 2020
How we work
We've been evolving as we've grown, we're already seeing the benefits all across the business of the transformation. Now as we head into the new world we're continuing to grow our teams but we remain committed to our culture and values.
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Simple
We want to operate in a simpler way and reduce delays.
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Innovation
We encourage experiments, fail fast and learn.
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Transparent
Enabling autonomy and trust through robust debate.
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User Driven
We are a people first organisation.
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Delivery
We encourage accountability, ownership and deliver at pace.
Leadership
We're lucky to have leaders who believe in doing things the right way, that this is just how things should be done and want to provide the best possible environment for people to succeed. We’ve never believed in ivory tower leadership, our team are hands-on, roll up their sleeves when needed types, that mentor and support your personal development.
Here is what our team have to say:
Our Tools
We want to use the best tools for the job, our teams have autonomy but also take responsibility for technology choices. We value decoupling and avoid vendor lock-in at every opportunity. Our systems are eventually consistent, event sourced, designed after our business domain and deployed in a distributed, micro architecture.
By popular choice we are primarily a go house with frontend powered mostly by typescript rolled react/graphql duo; we like experimenting, there’s more rust and WASM coming up; but you will also find staples like python or java.
We’re into cloud native and kubernetes, if it Dockerizes it fits, some examples include: cockroachdb, tikv, pql, mongo for storage; kafka, nats for brokers; thanos, grafana, graylog for instrumentation; kustomize, kube-applier, traefik for deployment and operations.
If it can be open- sourced, it shall. If we can submit a PR instead of building our own, we will. Getting your hands dirty from the top to the bottom of the stack isn’t a promise to be broken, it’s a requirement. If you’re only good at parts of it that’s okay, we’ll support you getting good at all of it.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary and stock options in a growing FTSE250 business 📈
- Beautiful modern, open-plan office with pairing/ standing desks for everybody and floor to ceiling windows offering views over London 🏢
- Subsidised Canteen for all you meat, vegetarian and vegan needs!🍅🥗
- Contributory pension that gets better with time, starting at 4% over time you can get up to 10%⏱
- Flexible working, we’ve got fully remote teams, onsite, early risers and late night grinders, for us it matters what we’re working on more than where. 👩🏽💻
- Opt in to subsidised private healthcare with our company Bupa scheme. 🚑
- Put something aside for a rainy day with our Save as you earn share purchase scheme. ☔️
- Pool tables, ping pong and sleep pods in our breakout space 🎱😴🏓
- Join us in our 140 seater auditorium for movie nights or join in our old school gaming nights 🎬🎮
- Quarterly socials, our most recent was All Star Lanes bowling and Karaoke 🎳🎤
- Mentors and Teachers a plenty, with so many brilliant minds in one place there is always someone you can lean on for support and
- guidance. 👩🏻🏫🙋🏻♂️🤷🏾♂️
- Choose your own tools, whether its hardware of software, you choose the tools you need to get your job done🖥🛠🧰
- Onsite parking with 350+ spaces🚘🚘
- Feeling stressed? We have an employee assistance helpline and company nurse onsite to help look after our teams physical and mental health.☎️👩🏽⚕️
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays✈️
- Discount on our services⚡️💡