Location: London or Bristol (Including Hybrid)
Salary: £81,600 - £102,000
Team: Enterprise Experiences
Reporting To: Head of Engineering
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.
Your Impact
In the next 12 months, you will lead the teams building out the paved road for frontend development at scale at Kaluza. Your success ensures that as we innovate, we never compromise on resilience.
- For our Clients: You will harden our frontend release capabilities, ensuring that global giants like OVO and AGL experience operational stability even as we continuously roll out new features.
- For our Engineers: You will make experience development a joy. By building robust shared tooling and deployment capabilities, you’ll remove the cognitive load from feature teams, allowing them to focus on value rather than infrastructure.
- For Kaluza: You will lead the build-out of a brand-new frontend platform. You aren't just managing existing teams; you are defining the technical standards and ownership models that will allow Kaluza to scale to its next milestone.
What You’ll Do
You will operate at the intersection of Product, People, and Platform Infrastructure:
- Own the "Paved Road" Technical Strategy: You will define and execute the technical strategy for our frontend monorepo, frontend CI/CD capabilities and design system. Your goal is to make doing the right thing the easiest thing for every frontend engineer at Kaluza.
- Lead through Ambiguity: As this is an early-stage build, you will help your two teams navigate undefined ownership models and prioritize the most impactful platform-style problems to solve.
- Build & Mentor: You will grow the headcount in line with our global product demand. You’ll mentor two Tech Leads and their squads, fostering a culture of servant leadership where the team feels supported to solve high-stakes architectural challenges.
About You
Ideally you'll have/be:
- Engineering Leadership: Proven experience leading and upskilling engineers, with a focus on team delivery and individual growth.
- Familiarity with Typescript and React: Expertise managing teams building scalable frontend applications using TypeScript and React and a strong understanding of modern patterns.
- Ambiguity Expert: Comfortable working in evolving and undefined spaces, with a proactive and adaptable approach to problem-solving.
- Collaborative Mindset: Experience working in cloud-based environments and collaborating across platform and backend boundaries.
- Communication Focused: Strong communication skills with a passion for building software that solves real-world customer problems.
What will set you apart:
- Frontend Platform Experience: Experience building shared frontend tooling or platforms that support hundreds of contributors.
- Quality Champion: Strong background in writing comprehensive end-to-end tests for complex frontend applications.
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. You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.
