Software Engineer - 12 month FTC

Job title: Software Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, London

Part time available? Yes

Salary: £55,000 - £89,000

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

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.

More specifically, you’ll be working on the 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.

You'll be joining as an engineer in the Accounts and Metering area, in one of the teams there. There is a strong remote-first ethos - they run all team ceremonies and engineering pairing sessions virtually, and aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. Team members can choose how and where to work, whether it’s from one of our lovely offices or from home or a mixture of both. Every 4-6 weeks we do like to get together as a team for workshops, discussion and some socialising; for meet-ups that are not held at your local office we can cover the costs of travel and accommodation if necessary.

What will I be doing?

We very much believe in sharing both responsibilities and the successes in our team, so you’ll be exposed to many aspects of our portfolio of work from the get go. The teams build, tests, deploys and supports a range of services that manage the customer lifecycle and metering data for use across the Kaluza platform, with a diverse set of underlying technologies. We don’t expect you to arrive with experience of all of them, but you can expect to learn about and get hands-on with typically Scala and TypeScript development, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, Serverless, Dynamo or Postgres, AWS and DataDog. As a team, we currently follow a SCRUM approach to Agile development, making use of tools like Miro, Confluence, Jira and Trello for workshops, documentation, task management, etc.

You’ll be involved in the full lifecycle from rapid prototyping to helping us scope our work and backlog refinement to developing, configuring and deploying services, to monitoring and improving our operational health. You will join our support rota to triage platform issues and respond to incidents; Kaluza itself has a great learning culture, so you can also expect to be dedicating some of your time to active learning and development.

There are several interesting challenges to solve including

• How to abstract and reduce complexity across multiple clients and countries
• Scale systems to process millions of data points through complex processes
• Build extensible systems that allow for customizability

Is this the job for me?

If you feel you can demonstrate knowledge & experience of some of the following then we’d love to hear from you!

• You are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact millions of people and also our environment
• You love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers
• You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
• You believe strongly in test automation, continuous delivery and working with best agile practices
• You love building scalable, resilient and observable solutions
• You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge

What experience you’ll need:

• You’re an experienced hands-on engineer with expertise in Typescript or Scala or another JVM language - if your experience doesn't match our stack exactly then don't worry, we hire based on software engineering talent, not language-specific skillset.
• You have built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies
• Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
• You have experience building highly performant applications

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
• Kaluza Share 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.