Kaluza

Principal Engineer

Kaluza
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the leading technical authority for a major global product area spanning multiple modules.
  • Architect complex, scalable, distributed, cloud-based enterprise software systems.
  • Align solutions with target architecture standards and contribute to the scalable platform.
  • Shape technical vision and product roadmaps in line with business goals.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership, including code-level design and proof-of-concept development when needed.
  • Mentor and guide engineers delivering autonomous, loosely coupled distributed systems.
  • Lead technical due diligence and make high-stakes technical decisions.
  • Enable multiple teams and act as a strategic partner to architecture leadership and principal and staff engineers.
  • Influence technical and executive audiences and orchestrate cross-functional solutions across product features.

Requirements

  • Experience architecting modern distributed, cloud-based systems in an enterprise software environment.
  • Experience shaping technical vision and product roadmaps and making appropriate technical choices.
  • Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams using architectural principles and patterns.
  • Ability to lead technical due diligence, make high-stakes decisions, and influence diverse audiences.
  • Experience architecting complex business-domain solutions, particularly interface design and data modelling.
  • Ideally, experience with AWS and API design.
  • Proven success delivering global B2B2C SaaS, preferably in energy or another mission-critical industry.
  • Experience enabling engineering teams to use AI and delivering AI/ML-powered solutions.
  • Experience driving adoption of modern engineering practices such as DevOps and CI/CD.
  • Experience leading teams through significant changes in ways of working.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively, communicate openly, and ramp up rapidly in new domains and technologies.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid working with an expectation of three days per week in the office in London, Bristol, or Edinburgh.
  • Pension scheme, discretionary bonus scheme, private medical insurance, virtual GP, and life assurance.
  • Access to the Furthr climate action app, free mortgage advice, eye tests, and retail discounts through Perks at Work.
  • 5% Flex Fund for employee-selected benefits.
  • 26 days of holiday and a progressive leave policy including 26 weeks of full pay for a new addition to the family.
  • Personal learning budget and home office budget.

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About Kaluza

501-1,000 employees

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.

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