Software Engineer, Kaluza

• Well-Rounded Engineer: Strong backend development experience, primarily with TypeScript, and a solid grasp of tool proficiency in a production environment
• Operational Ownership: Proven ability to work independently and take the lead on tasks within a small, high-impact team
• Problem Solver: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to support modern software delivery
• Collaborative Spirit: Excellent communication skills with an interest in working within a highly integrated, cross-functional squad
• We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you

Desirable

• Reporting to: Software Engineering Manager
• Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination
• We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future
• Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids
• By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life
• With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen
• Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?
• 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
• 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.
• Driving Delivery: Independently execute a mix of discovery spikes and technical debt resolution to enhance our GraphQL API (KaPI) and event gateway (KEG)
• Evolving API Offerings: Take the lead on evolving our API products to meet the rapidly growing needs of our global client base
• Improving Developer Experience: Focus on improving the tooling and usability for various internal teams who expose their domains via our API products
• Ensuring Platform Reliability: Provide essential in-hours support as part of a team rota to maintain high-availability retail platform components
• System Evolution: Pair or "swarm" with teammates to improve shared services and products, ensuring architectural consistency across the platform
• Community Contribution: Represent the API Platform team in broader engineering forums, including platform health reviews and post-mortems