Software Engineering Manager, Kaluza
Enterprise Experiences
£81.6-102k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
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Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£81.6-102k
+ 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
- Engineering Leadership: Proven experience leading and upskilling engineers , with a focus on team delivery and individual growth
- Familiarity with Typescript and React: Expertise managing teams building scalable frontend applications using TypeScript and React and a strong understanding of modern patterns
- Ambiguity Expert: Comfortable working in evolving and undefined spaces, with a proactive and adaptable approach to problem-solving
- Collaborative Mindset: Experience working in cloud-based environments and collaborating across platform and backend boundaries
- Communication Focused: Strong communication skills with a passion for building software that solves real-world customer problems
Desirable
- Frontend Platform Experience: Experience building shared frontend tooling or platforms that support hundreds of contributors
- Quality Champion: Strong background in writing comprehensive end-to-end tests for complex frontend applications
What the job involves
- Team: Enterprise Experiences
- Reporting To: Head of Engineering
- In the next 12 months, you will lead the teams building out the paved road for frontend development at scale at Kaluza. Your success ensures that as we innovate, we never compromise on resilience
- For our Clients: You will harden our frontend release capabilities, ensuring that global giants like OVO and AGL experience operational stability even as we continuously roll out new features
- For our Engineers: You will make experience development a joy. By building robust shared tooling and deployment capabilities, you’ll remove the cognitive load from feature teams, allowing them to focus on value rather than infrastructure
- For Kaluza: You will lead the build-out of a brand-new frontend platform. You aren't just managing existing teams; you are defining the technical standards and ownership models that will allow Kaluza to scale to its next milestone
- You will operate at the intersection of Product, People, and Platform Infrastructure:
- Own the "Paved Road" Technical Strategy: You will define and execute the technical strategy for our frontend monorepo, frontend CI/CD capabilities and design system. Your goal is to make doing the right thing the easiest thing for every frontend engineer at Kaluza
- Lead through Ambiguity: As this is an early-stage build, you will help your two teams navigate undefined ownership models and prioritize the most impactful platform-style problems to solve
- Build & Mentor: You will grow the headcount in line with our global product demand. You’ll mentor two Tech Leads and their squads, fostering a culture of servant leadership where the team feels supported to solve high-stakes architectural challenges
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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