Senior Software Engineer - API Platform

Kaluza wants to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition. It’s a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza’s technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement. And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a diverse group of both data-led and product-focused engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. We strive for engineering quality & innovation, continuously improving our best practices across our highly collaborative community.  To find out more about what it’s like to work in Kaluza Technology, check out our Tech Blog here: 

https://medium.com/kaluza-tech

The API Platform team is a newly combined team of software engineers within the Client Integrations squad responsible for building & supporting the retail platform-critical components of Kaluza’s GraphQL API (KaPI) & event gateway (KEG) solutions. Our vision is that Kaluza is the easiest, most intuitive retail platform with which to integrate - our API Platform sits alongside our other large-scale analytical offering (KDM) to provide a coherent, low latency way for retail clients to maintain and find their data. 

The team is well-distributed across the UK so we operate as a remote-first team, although we do organise physical meet-ups every 6-8 weeks in our London, Edinburgh or Bristol offices for workshops & fun.

Core technology-wise, we use Scala, GraphQL and DynamoDB, alongside Kafka & Avro.  We deploy on to our internal Kubernetes platform with Terraform & Aiven as our IaC and GitHub for code repositories and workflows..

What will I be doing?

As an engineer within the API Platform team, you’ll play a crucial part in both developing and support the KaPI and KEG products; in particular:

• Working on a mixture of discovery/spike tasks, tech debt and core delivery tickets on our backlog
• Providing in-hours support for KaPI and/or KEG as part of our team rota
• Playing an active part in our team’s weekly planning, daily stand-ups and regular ops health, backlog refinement and retros

There will also be opportunities to…

• Join in on our squad’s innovation time (and/or Kaluza innovation time)
• Join our OOH rota
• Get involved in our team meet-ups & socials, and squad events (e.g. Coffee & Donuts sessions, in-office meet-ups)
• Pair or swarm on improving shared services/products, such as kpi-config
• Represent our team at squad or engineering community level (e.g. Platform health reviews, post-mortems, etc)

Is this the job for me?

This job is for mid-level or senior engineers so it’s essential that you have:

• Backend and/or full stack development experience
• Experience with Scala 
• Evidence of working with a breadth of tooling from CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure As Code. 
• Evidence of proactively & independently solving problems, as well evidence showing your ability to pair on development or problem-solving tasks
• An enthusiasm to learn new technologies and about new domains

It would also be advantageous, but not essential, that you have some of:

• Awareness of core SRE concepts such as disaster recovery and platform health monitoring
• Experience with building, deploying & monitoring AWS components
• Experience with Kubernetes hosted components
• Experience working with Kafka & Avro
• Experience working with DynamoDB
• Software design, service architecture and/or technical options analysis

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

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

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that 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. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

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