Senior Engineer II - API Platform

at  Kaluza

IS THIS THE JOB FOR ME?

We’re looking for someone who has a high level of technical skill & understanding and is also able to guide, support and coach a team of 6 engineers whilst ensuring we’re able to implement high quality solutions..

It’s essential that you have:

• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers
• Strong stakeholder management skills working with Product managers Tech Leads, Principle engineers etc
• Experience in leading the design and implementation of new service design or significant architecture changes
• Backend and/or full stack development experience
• Evidence of working with a breadth of tooling from CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure As Code.
• Awareness of core SRE concepts such as disaster recovery and platform health monitoring
• 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 by engaging with other teams and squads within the wider tech community
• An awareness of how to encourage a positive and constructive team culture
• An understanding of Agile ways of working and are able to champion improvements to team processes
• An appreciation for product and customer insights and how they can be used to improve our service and how we deliver improvements to them.

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

• Experience with cross team and squad collaboration
• Experience with Scala
• Experience in the implementation of SRE concepts such as disaster recovery and platform health monitoring
• Experience with building, deploying & monitoring AWS components
• Experience with Kubernetes hosted components
• Experience working with Kafka & Avro
• Experience working with DynamoDB

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

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?