Senior Software Engineering Manager - Quality Tooling

Job title: Senior Software Engineering Manager

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh (Including Hybrid)

Salary: £100,000 - £125,000

Team: Quality

Reporting To: Head of Quality

This role requires an existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

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, North America, 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.

At Kaluza we embrace a flexible, hybrid work model that balances autonomy with the power of in-person connection. Many of our teams find value in coming together regularly to collaborate, strengthen relationships, and accelerate progress. We’re focused on shaping thoughtful, team-driven approaches that support both business impact and individual well-being.

What will I be doing?

• You will be responsible for delivering solutions to enable Quality, Engineering, and our Client Teams to test Kaluza’s software better. To do this, you will need to: 
• Manage stakeholders and build relationships with clients directly.
• Develop the strategy and architecture required to meet the needs of internal teams and clients.
• Identify improvement opportunities for ways of working and enable teams to work efficiently while improving the quality of Kaluza’s products.
• Collaborate with a range of internal peers including Delivery, Product, Customer Success, Commercial and Engineering.
• You will manage a cross functional team of Quality and Developer Engineers. Engineering Managers contribute to both the technical and product vision of their teams, making sure that their products are successful.
• Helping teams to make technical decisions that align with Kaluza’s business objectives.

About You 

Ideally you’ll:

• Have significant experience in an Engineering Management position, developing high performing cross functional teams.
• Have a strong technology background, ideally in scalable distributed applications, and an excellent understanding of a broad set of modern technologies.
• Have experience delivering test tools and frameworks, including test data management. 
• Have a track record of delivering high-quality, high-impact software effectively.
• Be able to communicate and present effectively to clients, giving them confidence in our approach and progress.
• Be ready to take the next step in your Engineering Management journey!

What will set you apart 

• The ideal candidate would have a background in client-facing roles, including solution engineering, presales or consulting, with a proven ability to translate complex client needs into effective technical solutions.
• Experience in Quality disciplines - either test automation, QA engineering or SDET.
• Experience in any of the energy or billing domains would be a benefit - but are not required.
• Experience transforming software engineering teams and practices through the use of AI, ML and/or LLMs or a keen interest in emerging technologies is desirable.

Other Requirements

Kaluza is a global business, as a result the person in this role will be required to collaborate with teams in APAC. In addition, travel to different Kaluza offices and client sites may also be needed.

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.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

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
• 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.
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