Software Engineering Manager

About the Position

Software Engineering Manager

Location

• London, Bristol, or Edinburgh (Hybrid 3+ days per week)

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Salary

£74,000 - £102,000

About Kaluza

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.

Responsibilities

• Focus on a domain within our Engineering function, working directly with clients to leverage the Kaluza platform to meet client needs in new regions.
• Manage teams of engineers, up to 10 direct reports. Contribute to both the technical and product vision of your teams, ensuring their products are successful.
• Nurture the engineering talent in your teams, encouraging personal development, managing performance, and ensuring alignment with product delivery objectives.
• Work closely with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver real value within their wider program.
• Contribute to and drive the technical roadmap and strategy for your area.
• Champion operational excellence in your area and help your team be the best they can be.
• Find the right channels to remove impediments and unblock your team to help them meet their product delivery objectives.

Requirements

• Experience in an Engineering Management or related role working with high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Passion for growing and mentoring engineers within your teams.
• Strong, positive relationships with clients through active listening, timely and transparent communication, and proactive addressing of concerns.
• Fundamental understanding of the principles of Agile and lean development.
• Excellent understanding of a broad set of modern technologies, especially event-based systems such as Kafka.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with senior leaders across the business.

Nice to Have

• Background in client-facing roles, including solutions engineering or consulting, with a proven ability to translate complex client needs into effective technical solutions.
• Experience in any of the following domains would be a benefit:
  • Billing, Finance, and Ledger tooling within enterprise applications
  • Integration with Payments systems
  • eCommerce and proposition management platforms
  • Energy generation or supply, especially integration with DSOs
• Experience transforming software engineering teams and practices through the use of AI, ML, and/or LLMs.

We Offer

• 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 policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

About the Company

Kaluza is a global business, and as a result, the person in this role will be required to travel as part of commercial and deployment activities. By way of a guide, it’s possible that between 4 and 6 business trips a year will be required.

We offer flexible working, with an expectation of 3 days a week in the office. This gives us the best of both: real-time collaboration and building 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

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 recognize 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 at Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.

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