Job title: Software Engineering Manager
Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Salary: £80,000 - £102,000
Team: Energy Commerce
Reporting To: Energy Commerce Engineering Value Stream Lead
This role is based in the UK and requires an existing right to work in the UK. 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.
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?
- Lead individual and team delivery across the Energy Commerce domain, overseeing up to two cross-functional engineering teams and roughly 10 direct reports.
- Drive technical and product vision within your area, ensuring that the software built is scalable, reliable, and directly solves the real problems of our global energy retail partners.
- Nurture and upskill engineering talent by providing consistent coaching, managing performance, and fostering an environment of continuous professional growth.
- Champion operational excellence by guiding teams toward best practices in automated testing, observability, and frequent production deployments.
- Remove delivery impediments by working across the engineering leadership community to unblock your teams and maintain high-velocity delivery.
- Collaborate on the technical roadmap with Staff Engineers and Product Managers to ensure long-term architectural health and business impact.
About You
Ideally you’ll have/be:
- Extensive experience in Engineering Management leading high-performing, cross-functional teams in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
- A deep passion for people leadership, with a proven track record of growing engineers and managing delivery through others rather than hands-on coding.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for non-technical partners.
- A background in building scalable cloud-native systems (ideally AWS), with a focus on technical excellence and automated workflows.
What will set you apart:
- Specific domain expertise in energy retail billing, commerce platforms, or complex financial orchestration systems.
- Experience navigating high-growth environments where you have scaled teams or improved organisational delivery processes.
- A strong bias for action and a history of leading teams through ambiguity to reach successful outcomes.
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
- Flexible Bank Holidays - Giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
- 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.
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