Engineer, Kaluza

• Backend and/or full stack development experience
• Experience with Scala
• Evidence of working with a breadth of tooling from CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure As Code
• Evidence of proactively & independently solving problems, as well evidence showing your ability to pair on development or problem-solving tasks
• An enthusiasm to learn new technologies and about new domains

Desirable

• 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
• The API Platform team is a newly combined team of software engineers within the Client Integrations squad responsible for building & supporting the retail platform-critical components of Kaluza’s GraphQL API (KaPI) & event gateway (KEG) solutions
• Our vision is that Kaluza is the easiest, most intuitive retail platform with which to integrate - our API Platform sits alongside our other large-scale analytical offering (KDM) to provide a coherent, low latency way for retail clients to maintain and find their data
• The team is well-distributed across the UK so we operate as a remote-first team, although we do organise physical meet-ups every 6-8 weeks in our London, Edinburgh or Bristol offices for workshops & fun
• Core technology-wise, we use Scala, GraphQL and DynamoDB, alongside Kafka & Avro
• We deploy on to our internal Kubernetes platform with Terraform & Aiven as our IaC and GitHub for code repositories and workflows.
• As an engineer within the API Platform team, you’ll play a crucial part in both developing and support the KaPI and KEG products; in particular:
• Working on a mixture of discovery/spike tasks, tech debt and core delivery tickets on our backlog
• Providing in-hours support for KaPI and/or KEG as part of our team rota
• Playing an active part in our team’s weekly planning, daily stand-ups and regular ops health, backlog refinement and retros
• There will also be opportunities to…
• Join in on our squad’s innovation time (and/or Kaluza innovation time)
• Get involved in our team meet-ups & socials, and squad events (e.g. Coffee & Donuts sessions, in-office meet-ups)
• Pair or swarm on improving shared services/products, such as kpi-config
• Represent our team at squad or engineering community level (e.g. Platform health reviews, post-mortems, etc)