14 hours ago
Edinburgh, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own system design and architecture for the API Platform and Standards squad.
- Create and challenge product and engineering proposals using data-backed design trade-offs.
- Diagnose and resolve complex technical and product issues, including beyond the immediate domain.
- Establish architectural patterns and technical standards adopted by other engineering teams.
- Turn ambiguous technical requirements into concrete execution plans.
- Influence engineering leadership, product, and adjacent squads on technical direction.
- Mentor and upskill engineers beyond the immediate team and contribute to a broader learning culture.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in system design and architecture ownership across a squad.
- Experience creating and challenging proposals and making data-backed design trade-offs.
- A track record of resolving complex technical and product problems across domains.
- Experience establishing and driving adoption of architectural patterns and technical standards.
- Ability to turn loosely defined requirements into executable plans and align senior stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring and upskilling engineers across teams.
- Comfort operating in billing or payments environments requiring reliability, security, and auditability.
- Demonstrable customer-focused, working-backwards product development practice.
- A demonstrable record of applying AI or LLMs to deliver customer impact.
- API gateway, API versioning, or developer-experience standards experience at scale is advantageous.
- Billing, payments, financial-services, or global-core/configurable-edge platform experience is advantageous.
Benefits
- Hybrid working in London, Bristol, or Edinburgh, with an expectation of at least three office days per week.
- Pension scheme, discretionary bonus scheme, private medical insurance, virtual GP, and life assurance.
- Climate action app access, free mortgage advice, eye tests, and retail discounts through Perks at Work.
- 5% Flex Fund, 26 days of holiday, progressive family leave, personal learning budget, and home office budget.
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About Kaluza
Kaluza builds an energy software platform for utilities and suppliers to run billing, smart EV charging, and real-time demand response across homes, devices, markets and grids. It sells its platform and services to energy companies and OEM partners; customers include OVO, AGL and ENGIE, with collaborations with Volvo and Volkswagen. Headquartered in London and B Corp‑certified, Kaluza operates across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including a joint venture with Mitsubishi in Japan.