Head of Engineering, Sunsave
Equity
3-4 days a week in office (Kings Cross or Farringdon, London)
The UK’s first solar subscription
Job no longer available
The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Equity
3-4 days a week in office (Kings Cross or Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.
Role
Who you are
- A collaborative all-rounder who takes accountability and supports others
- 2+ years in a leadership role including experience managing and mentoring software engineers, technical delivery management and working with stakeholders to meet business goals
- 3+ years experience working as a hands-on software developer
- Curious and humble; you ask questions and are open to new ideas
- Comfortable with Agile methodology (CI/CD, we use GitHub actions and AWS Copilot) and a fast-paced environment making decisions with imperfect information
- Knowledge of our key technologies - TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres, Docker. Please note you do not need to be in expert in all of these provided you are keen to learn!
- Care about what you do, Sunsave’s mission, the code you write, the products you ship
Desirable
- Some experience with GraphQL, RESTful APIs, AWS (RDS Postgres, Lambda, SNS etc.), Cloudwatch and Sentry
- Start-up experience
What the job involves
- Define architecture, tooling, technology and infrastructure needs aligned with best practices
- Build collaborative working relationship with Product/stakeholders to deliver projects and anticipate future technical needs
- Hands-on involvement with coding on day to day basis for initial development as tech team scales up
- Review the design and code of others and take necessary corrective actions if needed
- Nurture a high performing team to deliver OKRs and great customer experiences whilst achieving their development goals
- Support the adoption of best practices for Agile, code quality, test coverage, and secure coding
- Provide leadership and guidance, including troubleshooting and problem solving
- Balance our ability to deliver at pace whilst building a sustainable tech stack. This blog (https://www.sunsave.energy/blog/scaling-for-growth) will give you an idea of how we work
Application process
- Stage 1: Intro and initial CV review (~30 Min)
- Stage 2: Technical test, shared in advance (~1 hour)
- Stage 3: Architecture session to assess your knowledge (~45 mins)
- Stage 4: Culture & ways of working (~1 hour)
- Stage 5: Meet The Team (Intro to ~2-3 other team members, ~15 mins each) & References (where relevant/available)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sunsave, founded in 2022, is on a mission to make the power of solar accessible to every household in the UK. They're the first (and as of 2025 the only) company in the UK to offer an FCA-authorised solar subscription service - a model that's been very successful in places like Germany and the US.
70% of people in the UK are interested in solar, and Sunsave's model removes the biggest barrier to adoption - the ~£10k typical upfront cost and long payback period - so customers can save on their energy bills from day one. They offer an all-in-one subscription that includes finance, installation, monitoring and maintenance, really helping customers get the most out of their systems
Already, the company has attracted the attention of blue-chip VC funds such as Norrsken, IPGL, the UK Department of Energy, and household name entrepreneurs, including Michael Spencer and Stuart Rose. Alongside this, they raised a £13M Series A in July 2025, alongside a £100M debt facility to scale their subscription model.
They plan to also expand into complementary products like EV chargers and heat pumps, alongside tariff optimisation and energy insight software. The eventual aim is to build the company's first decentralised home energy platform and revolutionise households' relationship with energy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$17.7m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$7.4m
SEED
Total funding: $31.4m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance (incl. dependents under 18)
- Mental health support
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Fortnightly company social events
- Quarterly team social outing
- Quarterly women's dinner/social
- Remote working home office budget
- Cycle to work scheme
Company values
- We're changing how people power their lives: We know that only doing what’s familiar or easy isn’t going to get us there, so we’re unashamedly ambitious and set audacious goals. We’re excited by the hard problems that come with accomplishing something difficult, and we do whatever it takes to get closer to achieving our mission
- We start with the customer: We’re here to help real people, so their voices are at the centre of everything we do. We know that we can’t create a hugely successful business without building things that people really love. So everything we do starts with us asking: ‘What’s best for the customer?’
- We make it happen: We act with urgency, constantly prioritising to make sure we channel our energy into what matters most. We believe every problem has a solution, and we take ownership to figure it out. When we don’t have perfect information it doesn’t slow us down: we act, learn and adapt
- We drive each other to be exceptional: We’re one team, made stronger by supporting each other, sharing openly, and holding ourselves and each other to the highest standards. We prize honest constructive feedback, and we value fresh perspectives and respectful differences of opinion. We win, lose and learn together, and don’t let silos or egos get in the way
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alick Dru
(Co-Founder)Ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.
Ben Graves
(Co-Founder)Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.
People progressing
I joined Sunsave as an Operations Associate and was promoted to Senior Operations Associate after 9 months and to Ops Manager after a further 10 months. I now manage a full team.
I joined Sunsave as a Sales Specialist and was promoted to Sales Development Manager after 6 months. I now manage the Sales team as a whole.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sunsave
- One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
- We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
- Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
- Flexibility of working hours and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
- Enhanced parental leave
- Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
- Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate
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