Head of Engineering, Sunsave

Salary not provided

Meaningful Equity

AWS
TypeScript
Node.js
Postgres
Next.js
Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)

Sunsave

The UK’s first solar subscription

Posted today

Sunsave

The UK’s first solar subscription

21-100 employees

FintechB2CEnergySustainabilityHome improvement

Posted today

Salary not provided

Meaningful Equity

AWS
TypeScript
Node.js
Postgres
Next.js
Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)

21-100 employees

FintechB2CEnergySustainabilityHome improvement

Company mission

To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.

Company mission

To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.

Top investors

Our take

Sunsave is on a mission to save households meaningful money on energy through decentralised home energy tech. It's the first company in the UK to offer an FCA-authorised solar subscription service - a model that has achieved high levels of success in countries like Germany and the US.

The National Grid is creaking under its own weight. Only 40% of someone's energy bill goes towards the power itself; the rest is sucked up by levies and grid costs. Sunsave helps lessen the financial burden through its battery and solar-powered subscription. Upfront costs, the main barrier to solar installation, are reduced through this subscription, which includes kit, installation, finance, long-term protection, battery optimisation & grid trading.

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, it raised a £13M Series A in July 2025, alongside a £100M debt facility to scale its subscription model, growing its workforce to three times its size.

Sunsave plans to expand into complementary products, including EV chargers, heat pumps, 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 their energy.

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Steph

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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

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2025

$17.4m

SERIES A

Dec 2023

$7.3m

SEED

Total funding: $31m

This company has top investors

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