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Senior Software Engineer

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
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Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Kaluza’s energy retail platform. Responsibilities include developing event-driven systems, optimizing SQL and NoSQL databases, using AWS and serverless architectures, monitoring production services, and collaborating with product and engineering teams. The role also involves mentoring colleagues, promoting engineering best practices, and owning services from architecture through continuous improvement.
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Location: Bristol, London or Edinburgh (hybrid, three days a week in the office)

Level: Senior Engineer I C3

Team: Engineering

Salary: £60,000 – £80,000 + discretionary bonus

Contract: Permanent

Reporting To: Software Engineering Manager

Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities.


About Kaluza

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.


What you'll do

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. 

As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using TypeScript and Node.js
  • Work with event-driven systems and message queues to power real-time, reliable features.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build customer-focused solutions.
  • Lead by example, contributing to high-quality code, mentoring others, and fostering best practices.
  • Own services end-to-end, from architecture to production monitoring and continuous improvement.
  • Optimise system performance and data design, working with SQL or NoSQL databases as appropriate.
  • Leverage cloud platforms (especially AWS) and serverless architectures to build reliable, scalable solutions.
  • Contribute to a positive engineering culture by sharing knowledge and supporting your team.

Tech stack: Typescript, Node JS, Terraform, Gitactions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL 


What you'll bring 

Ideally, you'll have:

  • Solid experience developing backend applications, ideally in TypeScript or a willingness to pick it up quickly.
  • Understanding of event-driven systems and working with queues
  • Extremely comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), especially serverless technologies.
  • Experience with database design, optimisation, and maintenance (SQL or NoSQL).
  • Passionate about high-quality software and solving real customer problems.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, you enjoy mentoring and knowledge sharing.
  • Proactive mindset and ability to thrive in ambiguity.


Our Values

Five values guide how we work at Kaluza:

  • Play to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale.
  • Solve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes.
  • Build trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say.
  • Own the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego.
  • Go further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.


Our Perks

  • Time off and family: 26 days’ holiday, plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period
  • Health and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests
  • Pay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% [of salary] to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work
  • Growth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget
  • Climate: Furthr, our climate action app


Come as you are

We want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you.

Find out more on our careers page and LinkedIn. Our Applicant Data Protection Policy is here.

HQ

Kaluza London, England Office

Floor 2, 69 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom, W11 3JS

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