Overview
In this role you drive technical authority for a major product area, shaping scalable, cloud-native solutions. You influence architecture, roadmaps, and cross-team delivery while guiding a community of senior engineers. You’ll lead high-impact design decisions with potential hands-on contribution on rare challenges. The position blends strategic leadership with hands-off execution, contributing to Kaluza’s mission of enabling a clean, electrified energy future. This is a high-visibility opportunity to influence large-scale systems and collaboration across functions.
Pay / Benefits
- Pension Scheme
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
- Life Assurance
- 26 days holiday
- Personal Learning Budget
Responsibilities
- Serve as the principal technical authority for a global product area with multiple modules
- Lead innovation on complex, large-scale solutions and align them with target architecture standards
- Influence multiple teams and partner with architecture leadership and senior engineers
- Provide hands-off technical guidance while stepping in for design or PoC work when needed
- Shape technical vision and roadmaps to align with business goals
- Mentor engineers to deliver autonomous, loosely coupled distributed systems
- Lead technical due diligence and high-stakes architectural decisions
- Engage effectively with both technical teams and executive leadership
- Drive cross-functional, impact-oriented architectural initiatives
Key requirements
- Architect modern distributed, cloud-based systems in an enterprise context
- Shape and influence technical vision and product roadmaps
- Provide hands-on leadership and make principled technical choices
- Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practices
- Lead due diligence and high-stakes decisions with confidence
- Deliver results and communicate with diverse audiences
- Work independently and collaboratively with a growth mindset
- Experience enabling AI/ML-powered solutions
- Experience with AWS and API design
- Proven track record delivering global B2B2C SaaS in mission-critical domains
- Experience driving modern engineering practices such as DevOps and CI/CD
- Ability to adapt to new domains and technologies
- Effective communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Mentorship and coaching
- AI/ML powered solutions
- AWS
- API design
Principal Engineer in London employer: Kaluza
Kaluza is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in London that fosters innovation and collaboration within the energy sector. With a strong commitment to employee growth, Kaluza provides a range of benefits including a personal learning budget, flexible holiday options, and a progressive leave policy, ensuring that team members can thrive both personally and professionally. The company's focus on diversity and merit-based talent recognition makes it an attractive place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in business development.
