Head of Engineering, Sunsave
Significant Share Options
4+ days a week in office (Soho, London)
The UK’s first solar subscription
Open for applications
The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Significant Share Options
4+ days a week in office (Soho, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.
Role
Who you are
- Ambitious missionary: you’re hungry to build not just a great engineering team, but the technical backbone of a generational company redefining how consumers engage with energy
- Proven Leader: you’re a senior engineer or tech lead ready to step into a broader leadership role, or an experienced Head of Engineering who loves to stay close to the code
- Hands-on builder: you have experience in early-stage, fast-moving environments and are comfortable writing code today while laying the foundations to scale and lead a much larger team tomorrow
- Deeply customer-focused: you care about building tools and systems that solve real customer pain points, not just writing clean code
- Player-coach mindset: you’re comfortable leading small teams while actively guiding architecture decisions, codebases, and delivery
- AI-first: you’re an advocate for AI tooling and automation, know all the latest tools and proactively drive its adoption not just across engineering but all departments in the org
- Pragmatic technologist: you’re skilled at balancing speed and scalability, knowing when to hack and when to invest in infrastructure
Desirable
- Knowledge of our stack/desire to learn: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js, Postgres, AWS. You don’t need to be an expert in all of them, but you should have a working knowledge and a strong appetite to learn more
What the job involves
- Engineering Strategy Ownership: Define, prioritise and own the multi-year technical strategy to build a mass market decentralised energy offering
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and grow a high-performing team, drive rapid delivery, foster a strong customer focus, and guide day-to-day execution from stand-ups to strategic problem-solving
- Be Hands On: Be close to the work; write production code, shape architecture, and unblock your team
- Stakeholder Alignment: Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to prioritise what we build and where we trade-off between speed, quality, and long-term value
- AI Evangelist: Drive adoption and smart use of the latest AI tools across the business from developer productivity to customer operations
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Represent Engineering at the leadership table to shape company strategy, influence cross-functional decisions, and ensure tech is a driving force in how we scale and serve our customers
Application process
- Stage 1: Intro and Initial CV Review (~30 Mins)
- Stage 2: Technical test, shared in advance (~1 Hour)
- Stage 3: Architecture session to assess your knowledge (~45 Mins)
- Stage 4: Culture & Fit (~1 Hour)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sunsave, founded in 2022, is on a mission to make solar energy and battery storage accessible to the mass market. It removes the upfront costs and provides a subscription service that takes care of everything - from installation to maintenance - so that more UK households can save on their energy bills.
The model is designed to remove the biggest barrier to solar and storage adoption - the ~£10k typical upfront cost and long payback period - allowing customers to save on their energy bills from day one. They do so through Sunsave's all-in-one subscription that includes finance, installation, monitoring, maintenance, and a Virtual Power Plant, helping them get the most out of their system.
The green company has already attracted the attention of blue-chip VC funds such as Norrsken, the UK Department of Energy, and household name entrepreneurs, including Michael Spencer and Stuart Rose, raising ~£11M in funding and growing to ~30 FTEs. This will be used to fund its expansion into complementary products such as EV chargers and heat pumps alongside tariff optimisation and energy insight software. It's also the first UK company to achieve full FCA authorisation for a solar power platform, as it brings the tried and tested solar subscription business model to the UK. In doing so, it hopes to build the country's first decentralised home energy platform and revolutionise households' relationship with energy.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Even though everyone is so experienced, building a new business from scratch comes with lots of brand new challenges, especially one that's so..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2023
$7.5m
SEED
Jan 2022
$6.5m
SEED
Total funding: $14m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance
- Mental health support
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + extra holidays for long service
Company values
- Outcome not ego
- Empowered to thrive
- Act on your curiosity
- Strength in difference
- Build trust through transparency and communication
- Live your mission
Company HQ
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.
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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