Software Engineer, Axle Energy
£50-90k
+ Equity grants
2-3 days a week in office
Decarbonising the electricity grid
Open for applications
Decarbonising the electricity grid
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£50-90k
+ Equity grants
2-3 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build the infrastructure underpinning the decarbonised energy system.
Role
Who you are
- We’re hiring engineers who ship fast, build delightful products, and want to step into the arena in the fight against climate change
- In return, we ask for:
- The courage to build new things fast
- A commitment to real world impact over technical perfection
- A desire to help build and lead an exceptional and tight knit team
- Deep-seated motivation to combat climate change
What the job involves
- Insane amounts of ownership
- Hard technical challenges
- That what you build is commercially and environmentally valuable
Application process
- 1. Initial chat with CTO
- 2. Take home task
- 3. Pair programming exercise
- 4. Final round, in-person with founders & team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The push for decarbonisation and rising energy prices highlights the need for solutions to balance supply and demand. As electric vehicles and home batteries gain traction, there's strong potential for technology that connects these assets to the energy market. A market Axle Energy is jumping on.
The company positions itself as an "energy flexibility company", developing software that connects distributed energy assets to flexibility markets that traditionally only larger energy users could access. By enabling households to delay EV charging or utilise home batteries during peak demand, Axle provides a means for consumers to actively support grid stability while earning financial incentives.
Axle is ready to expand its engineering team and enhance its capabilities in the UK energy market. Alongside this, it has set its sights on future growth in other European markets. Which might not be too far away, as it already has over 15,000 flexible assets connected to its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$9m
SEED
Jun 2023
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $10.6m
Company benefits
- 25 days paid leave + public holidays
- Statutory pension contributions
- Flexibility to work abroad when desired
- All-hands retreat somewhere beautiful each 6 months
- Free holiday days if you take the train
- Top-tier tech; anything you need to be productive
Company values
- Bold: we're building the Grid 2.0, and there's going to be a lot of walls to run through
- Scrappy: we're creative problem solvers, and we find a way to win
- We Ship: we get our work out into the world and creating impact as soon as possible
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Karl Bach
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Growth at Bulb, the Head of Data & Strategy at M-Kopa Solar, and a Management Consultant at Bain & Company.
Archy de Berker
(Co-Founder)Previously the Head of Data & Product at CarbonChain, and held Data Scientist roles at Climate TRACE, TransitionZero, and Habitat Energy. Graduated from UCL with a PhD in Neuroscience.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Axle Energy
- We are extremely keen to build a diverse company, and we’re particularly eager to hear from candidates who don't fit the traditional engineering & energy stereotypes. If you’re motivated by our mission, please do reach out, even if you feel you might not ‘check all the boxes’. The energy transition will touch every corner of the economy, and affect every individual. We want the team that shapes it to reflect the diversity of energy consumers.
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