Senior Engineer, Kaluza
IAM
£68.6-93.5k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Be an early applicant
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£68.6-93.5k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally you’ll already have experience working as an IAM engineer, but we are very happy to consider candidates from software engineering or security engineering who are looking to jump into the Identity & Access Management domain
- Whatever your background, we’re looking for genuine enthusiasm to help us develop this space and for you to share that passion with others at Kaluza
- If you feel you can demonstrate knowledge & experience of some of the following then we’d love to hear from you!
- Developing and maintaining quality SaaS APIs in AWS
- Working with (and continuous improvement of use with) fundamental DevSecOps engineering elements such as CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure As Code, Kubernetes containerization and platform health alerting & monitoring
- Application of basic modern identity & access management techniques and standards, such as OAuth2.0 or SAML2.0
- Integrating an IdP into services to enable SSO and/or federated identity
- Use of encrypted JWTs as part of an OIDC-compliant user authentication flow and/or creating policies in an RBAC and ABAC environment
- Understanding of key Cyber Security and/or wider Information Security standards & policy, such as ISO-27001
- 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
What the job involves
- Team: Identity & Access management team
- Reporting To: Software Engineering Manager
- You'll be joining as an engineer in our Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, which provides authentication & authorisation services that safely ensures the appropriate accesses are permitted on the Kaluza retail platform, whether that’s human (e.g. retail client customers or employees) or machine (e.g. external or other internal services)
- With millions of customers across multiple geographic regions, we naturally invest significant effort into availability, performance, security and observability, and the team prides itself on its ability to maintain a balance between rapid development of new services, iterative quality & feature enhancements alongside being highly responsive in incidents
- As an engineer in the IAM team you’ll also be part of the wider Cyber Security squad, working alongside security engineers and security operations specialists as well as a range of software engineers from across our Kaluza engineering community
- We very much believe in sharing both responsibilities and the successes in our team, so you’ll be exposed to many aspects of our IAM portfolio of work from the get go
- The team builds, tests, deploys and supports a range of authentication & authorisation products 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 many, in particular TypeScript development, GitHub Actions, Terraform, PostgreSQL, AWS, Keycloak and DataDog
- As a team, we currently follow a Kanban approach to Agile software development, making use of tools like Miro, Confluence and Jira for workshops, documentation and task management
- You’ll be involved in the full software development lifecycle from rapid prototyping, technical options evaluation and publishing solution design specs, through to developing, configuring and deploying services, through to monitoring and improving our operational health
- You will join our support rota to triage platform issues and respond to incidents; as a critical part of our platform we often get called upon to advise or champion core IAM principles, giving us a uniquely broad perspective across the entire architecture
- Alongside your day-to-day IAM work you’ll also have the opportunity to mentor other engineers, get involved in cross-engineering knowledge sharing as well as the potential to lead collaborative development across into other teams
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- 26 days holiday
- Kaluza Share Scheme
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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