Senior Engineer II - Energy Commerce

Job title: Senior Engineer II
Reporting to: Engineering Manager
Location: London, Bristol
Salary Range: £80,000 - £93,5000

Application closing date is on the 31st May 

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. Teams can choose how and where to work, whether it’s from one of our lovely offices or from home or a mixture of both. Each team is different but we do like to get together monthly/quarterly as teams - if they are not at your local office we will cover the costs of travel and accommodation if necessary. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations!

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You’ll be working on Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform. This is a SaaS technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally. This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers.  

What will I be doing?

You will be fully embedded in the Energy Commerce UK team, which is integral to the lifecycle of a customer on the Energy Retail platform. We are responsible for building new systems to support global Products and Pricing solutions, needed to support precise, exceptional and compliant customer experiences through the customer lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to your team to ensure they can ship features quickly while ensuring quality and platform stability is kept to a high standard
• Working closely with the engineering manager and product manager to help shape the future of the Energy Commerce products
• Writing code (when needed) to help the team meet their delivery goals
• Reviewing code from your colleagues
• Creating and delivering against the technical strategy for your team in partnership with the engineering manager
• Promoting engineering and delivery best practices within the team
• Championing progressive architecture and reviewing design solutions with other engineering leaders
• Working within a team of other senior leaders responsible for designing and evolving the architecture for the Energy Commerce value stream and wider Core Platform

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you’ll have:

• Strong communication skills
• A bias to action and a ‘Can do’ approach to problem solving in the face of uncertainty
• A drive to deliver on commitments and help the team meet their goals
• Experience of mentoring, training and developing other engineers 
• An ability to deliver against a technical strategy iteratively, working through ambiguity to deliver change over longer periods
• Experience of building and nurturing highly collaborative and engaged teams
• An ability to collaborate  with people managers, product managers and agile practitioners to contribute to a high-performing culture
• Experience with event-driven architectures is a plus
• Experience with Scala is a plus
• Experience with Clojure is a plus

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

At Kaluza, we empower our people to have choices around where and when they work - flexible working arrangements can be discussed for all of our roles. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team for more info.

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.