Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: (including hybrid): Melbourne, Australia (2-3 days in our WeWork Office)

Salary: $100,000 - $180,000 (depending on level) + superannuation 

Kaluza wants to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition. It’s a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza’s technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement. And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

Kaluza is currently in an exciting growth phase, undergoing the next phase of our international expansion in Melbourne to further reinforce our capabilities as a globally distributed energy platform.

Our goal is to build a self-sufficient and empowered team here on the ground in Australia. We’re well on our way, but until we get there we still have some reliances on our UK team. Being comfortable working flexibly for a portion of your working week to cover time zones is required. 

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.

You’ll be working on the Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform. This is a SaaS technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally. This platform is built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers. 

Here at Kaluza we are 100% committed to providing a reliable platform for our clients. As part of that commitment, our engineering ownership model is “you build it, you own it.”  Our engineering teams have a high sense of ownership and support their critical services both in and out of normal working hours. After hours support is assigned according to a paid roster.

What will I be doing?

We very much believe in sharing both responsibilities and the successes in our team, so you’ll be exposed to many aspects of our portfolio of work from the get go.  Our teams build, test, deploy and support a range of services that manage the customer lifecycle and metering data for use across the Kaluza platform, with a diverse set of underlying technologies.  We don’t expect you to arrive with experience of all of them, but you can expect to learn about and get hands-on with typically TypeScript development, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, Serverless, Dynamo or Postgres, AWS and DataDog.  As a team, we currently follow agile approaches to development, making use of tools like Miro, Confluence, Jira and Trello for workshops, documentation, task management, etc. 

You’ll be involved in the full lifecycle from rapid prototyping to helping us scope our work and backlog refinement to developing, configuring and deploying services, to monitoring and improving our operational health. You will join our support rota to triage platform issues and respond to incidents; Kaluza itself has a great learning culture, so you can also expect to be dedicating some of your time to active learning and development.

There are several interesting challenges to solve including:

• How to abstract and reduce complexity across multiple clients and countries
• Scale systems to process millions of data points through complex processes
• Build extensible systems that allow for customizability

Kaluza is currently in an exciting growth phase, undergoing the next phase of our international expansion.. This will further reinforce our capabilities as a globally distributed energy platform and means that you would be one of the first Kaluza employees on the ground in Australia, joining our existing engineering teams!

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you’ll have/be

• You are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact millions of people and also our environment
• You love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers
• You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
• You believe strongly in test automation, continuous delivery and working with best agile practices
• You love building scalable, resilient and observable solutions
• You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge
• You’re an experienced hands-on engineer with expertise in Typescript or Scala(our deprecated language of choice) - if your experience doesn't match our stack exactly then don't worry, we hire based on software engineering talent, not language-specific skillset.
• You have built or contributed to a variety of systems, ideally in different technologies
• Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
• You have experience building highly performant applications

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

From us you’ll get

We're just getting set up in Australia for the first time, so we'll build out our full benefits offering in the coming months. Currently, from day one, you will get:

• Progressive leave policies 
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• 26 days annual leave

We'll then build out our benefits and progressive policies soon to ensure your Total Reward package is highly competitive, and that you're well looked after.

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.