Scala Engineer - API Platform Team

Overview

Job title: Engineer II

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh - Hybrid

Salary: £45,600 - £60,000

Reporting to: Software Engineering Manager

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.

At Kaluza we embrace a flexible, hybrid work model that balances autonomy with the power of in-person connection. Many of our teams find value in coming together regularly to collaborate, strengthen relationships, and accelerate progress. We’re focused on shaping thoughtful, team-driven approaches that support both business impact and individual well-being.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a diverse group of both data-led and product-focused engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. We strive for engineering quality & innovation, continuously improving our best practices across our highly collaborative community.

The API Platform team is a newly combined team of software engineers within the Client Integrations squad responsible for building & supporting the retail platform-critical components of Kaluza’s Graph

QL API (KaPI) & event gateway (KEG) solutions. Our vision is that Kaluza is the easiest, most intuitive retail platform with which to integrate - our API Platform sits alongside our other large-scale analytical offering (KDM) to provide a coherent, low latency way for retail clients to maintain and find their data.

Core technology-wise, we use Scala, Graph

QL and Dynamo

DB, alongside Kafka & Avro. We deploy on to our internal Kubernetes platform with Terraform & Aiven as our IaC and Git Hub for code repositories and workflows.

As an engineer within the API Platform team, you’ll play a crucial part in both developing and supporting the KaPI and KEG products; in particular:

• Working on a mixture of discovery/spike tasks, tech debt and core delivery tickets on our backlog
• Providing in-hours support for KaPI and/or KEG as part of our team rota
• Playing an active part in our team’s weekly planning, daily stand-ups and regular ops health, backlog refinement and retros

There will also be opportunities to…

• Join in on our squad’s innovation time (and/or Kaluza innovation time)
• Get involved in our team meet-ups & socials, and squad events (e.g. Coffee & Donuts sessions, in-office meet-ups)
• Pair or swarm on improving shared services/products, such as kpi-config
• Represent our team at squad or engineering community level (e.g. Platform health reviews, post-mortems, etc)

For this role it’s essential that you have:

• Backend and/or full stack development experience
• Experience with Scala
• Evidence of working with a breadth of tooling from CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure As Code
• Evidence of proactively & independently solving problems, as well evidence showing your ability to pair on development or problem-solving tasks
• An enthusiasm to learn new technologies and about new domains

It would also be advantageous, but not essential, that you have some of:

• Awareness of core SRE concepts such as disaster recovery and platform health monitoring
• Experience with building, deploying & monitoring AWS components
• Experience with Kubernetes hosted…