Software Engineer

About the role

<ul> <li><strong>Location</strong>: Bristol, London, Edinburgh UK Hybrid.</li> <li><strong>Level:</strong> C2</li> <li><strong>Team</strong>: Engineering</li> <li><strong>Salary</strong>: £45,000 - £62,000</li> </ul> <p>This role can be based in our London, Bristol or Edinburgh offices, and requires an existing right to work in the UK.</p> <p>At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.</p> <h3><strong>Kaluza Overview</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What will I be doing?</strong></p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.</p> <p>Our tech stack is fluid, but broadly you can find yourself working with:</p> <p><em>Typescript, Node JS, Terraform, Gitactions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL&nbsp;</em></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain backend services using modern technologies like TypeScript and Node.js.</li> <li>Learn to work with event-driven systems and cloud platforms (especially AWS).</li> <li>Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to develop customer-facing features.</li> <li>Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews to grow your technical skills.</li> <li>Contribute to the ongoing development of services and systems, with support from your team.</li> <li>Work with databases (SQL or NoSQL) to manage and retrieve data.</li> <li>Take part in team discussions, stand-ups, and planning sessions to understand how we build at scale.</li> <li>Ask questions, seek feedback, and share what you’re learning to support a positive team environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About You&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Ideally, you'll have/be:</p> <ul> <li>Some hands-on experience writing backend code, ideally in TypeScript, or keen to learn it.</li> <li>A basic understanding of cloud technologies or interest in learning about platforms like AWS.</li> <li>Familiarity with databases and APIs, and a desire to build reliable software.</li> <li>A collaborative and open mindset, you're excited to learn from others and contribute to a team.</li> <li>A curiosity for how things work and a proactive attitude to improving your skills.</li> <li>Passion for building technology that solves real problems for users.</li> <li>Bonus: exposure to frontend development</li> </ul> <p><strong>Where you'll work</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>Kaluza Values</strong></h3> <p>Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:</p> <p>Play to win, Solve the real

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