Software Engineer
Role Overview
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.
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Kaluza Overview
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.
What will I be doing?
You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale.
As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.
Our tech stack is fluid, but broadly you can find yourself working with:
Typescript, Node JS, Terraform, Gitactions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services using modern technologies like TypeScript and Node.js.
- Learn to work with event-driven systems and cloud platforms (especially AWS).
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to develop customer-facing features.
- Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews to grow your technical skills.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of services and systems, with support from your team.
- Work with databases (SQL or NoSQL) to manage and retrieve data.
- Take part in team discussions, stand-ups, and planning sessions to understand how we build at scale.
- Ask questions, seek feedback, and share what you’re learning to support a positive team environment.
About You
Ideally, you'll have/be:
Some hands-on experience writing backend code, ideally in TypeScript, or keen to learn it.
A basic understanding of cloud technologies or interest in learning about platforms like AWS.
Familiarity with databases and APIs, and a desire to build reliable software.
A collaborative and open mindset, you're excited to learn from others and contribute to a team.
A curiosity for how things work and a proactive attitude to improving your skills.
Passion for building technology that solves real problems for users.
Bonus: exposure to frontend development
Where you'll work
We offer flexible working, with an expectation of 3 days a week in the office. This gives us the best of both: real time together to collaborate and build relationships, with the flexibility to work in the way that suits you best the rest of the week.
Kaluza Values
Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:
Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.
Our Perks
- Pension Scheme
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
- Life Assurance
- Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
- Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
- Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
- 5% Flex Fund - to spend on the benefits you want most
- 26 days holiday
- Progressive Leave Policy - With no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
- Personal Learning Budget - Upskill, learn and grow!
- Home Office Budget
- And more!
We want the best people
We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
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.
Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn . You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here .
About Kaluza
Kaluza is a private energy software company providing SaaS for utilities' billing, customer operations, and energy optimisation.
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