Lead Engineer - Front End & Design System

Tech Specialist (Front-end & Design System) TL1

• Location: London, UK - Hybrid

• Team: Global Engineering - Commerce & Customer Care

• Visa: This role is based in the UK and requires existing right to work in the UK.

Kaluza Overview

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.

What will I be doing?

You will be fully embedded in the Customer Care org, specifically working on KAE (Kaluza Agent Experience) which is integral to building and enabling an energy specific agent product for servicing customers across multiple channels and the enterprise design system (Nebula) that will enable the next phase of scale for Kaluza. You will be the design system technical expert for the team and the hands-on bridge between design and engineering, turning design intent into accessible, production-quality React components and patterns, bolstering the existing team members with specific technical depth in building and scaling design systems across internal teams. You will work with designers as equal partners.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working in a product development team with internal users to understand emerging and existing needs to steer the development of the enterprise design system, and supporting the teams who build with it

• Working closely with designers as equal partners, and with product and engineering, to help shape the future of the global Agent Experience product and the design system

• Designing, building and shipping React components and patterns that conform to WCAG 2.2 AA to help the team meet their delivery goals

• Reviewing code from your colleagues, including contributions from outside the team, and setting the quality bar for design fidelity and accessibility

• Making the design-to-code workflow work in practice, including design tokens, handoff and component documentation

• Running the contribution process so that teams beyond our own can propose, build and ship into the design system, and leading changes that affect several apps from first proposal to final migration

• Creating and delivering against the technical strategy for your team in partnership with the engineering manager

• Promoting engineering, design and delivery best practices within the team, and coaching the engineers and designers who use the design system

• Shaping how we use AI-assisted development in design system work

• Championing progressive architecture and reviewing design solutions with other engineering leaders

• Representing the design system to engineering and wider stakeholders, and helping set its direction

• Working within a team of other senior leaders responsible for designing and evolving the architecture of the enterprise design system at Kaluza

About You

Ideally you'll have/be:

• Deep experience building Frontend components with React and TypeScript

• Deep experience designing, building and running design systems, including tokens, component APIs, documentation and versioning

• Knowledge of implementing and maintaining WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, with practical empathy for users with accessibility needs

• Good design and UX judgement, starting from the user, and comfortable challenging and being challenged by designers

• Experience running changes across multiple apps

• Strong communication skills, comfortable working with stakeholders across engineering, design, product and the wider business, holding opinions loosely and raising what matters even when it is inconvenient

• A bias to action and a ‘Can do’ approach to problem solving in the face of uncertainty

• Experience of mentoring, training and developing other engineers

• An ability to deliver against a technical strategy iteratively, working through ambiguity to deliver change over longer periods

• Experience of building and nurturing highly collaborative and engaged teams

• Comfort with AI-enabled development, ideally leading others in using it well

• An ability to collaborate with people managers, product managers and agile practitioners to contribute to a high-performing culture

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 ourcareers page andLinkedIn. You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.

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.