IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer

Kaluza

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will join Kaluza’s Engineering team to design and operate scalable backend services that power real-time energy solutions. You will collaborate with product, design and engineering peers to deliver customer-focused features at scale, while upholding high-quality code and best practices. You will own services end-to-end, from architecture to production monitoring, and contribute to a culture of learning and improvement. The role offers the chance to work with modern, serverless cloud technologies and a mix of SQL/NoSQL data stores to solve meaningful energy-domain problems. This is an opportunity to influence the platform that enables a cleaner, smarter energy future.

Pay / Benefits
  • Pension Scheme
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Assurance
  • 26 days holiday
  • Personal Learning Budget
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using TypeScript
  • Work with event-driven systems and message queues to power real-time features
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build customer-focused solutions
  • Lead by example, mentoring others and promoting best practices
  • Own services end-to-end, from architecture to production monitoring and continuous improvement
  • Optimise system performance and data design with SQL or NoSQL databases
  • Leverage AWS and serverless architectures to build reliable, scalable solutions
  • Contribute to a positive engineering culture by sharing knowledge and supporting your team
Key requirements
  • Solid experience developing backend applications, ideally in TypeScript or a willingness to pick it up quickly
  • Understanding of event-driven systems and working with queues
  • Extremely comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), especially serverless technologies
  • Experience with database design, optimisation, and maintenance (SQL or NoSQL)
  • Passionate about high-quality software and solving real customer problems
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, mentoring and knowledge sharing
  • Proactive mindset and ability to thrive in ambiguity
  • strong communication
  • collaboration
  • mentoring
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Terraform

Reference: WJ-747_30434839

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