{"id":1722971,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tem-energy-senior-staff-engineer-payments","title":"Senior Staff Engineer - Payments","company":{"id":580,"name":"TEM Energy","domain":"tem.energy","url":"https://alion.io/company/tem","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":117850,"max":117850,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":155974},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T09:08:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T07:42:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":18,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":18},"description":"Who We Are:\nWe are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair.\nOur goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity.\ntem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators.\nWe’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale.\nIn late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Albion, Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership.\nWe’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide.\nSince launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems.\nAt tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception.\nThe Role\nWe're hiring a Senior Staff Engineer for our brand new Payments squad, part of Saldo, our Billing and Payments Service.\nPayments at tem works today, but it's a basic service. We're growing fast, and it needs to be built for the scale we're moving towards. You'll be the first tech lead in a squad that already has a senior engineer and three junior engineers, and you'll own the outcome of the squad's delivery and the standards it works to.\nThis is a hands-on role. You'll write design docs, review code, solve the hardest problems alongside the team, and set the technical direction for payments. The number you'll move is the cost of processing every pound that flows through tem. Your job is to bring it down, and keep it low as we scale.\nIn your first 12 months, you might:\nSet the architecture direction that takes payments from a functional service to one built for growth.\n\nDefine how the squad works, including the balance between speed, quality and resilience that payments demands.\n\nLift the quality and speed bar for the whole squad, senior and junior engineers alike.\n\nDrive the technical blockers to delivery to resolution, so the squad's work reaches the people who depend on it.\n\nMake payment accuracy and processing efficiency the levers that bring cost-to-process down.\n\nYou'll report into the Service Manager for Saldo.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the outcome: Take responsibility for the squad's delivery and the standards it works to, so the team ships work we're proud of.\n\nLead from the front line: Write specs and design docs, give feedback on ADRs, review pull requests, and solve problems directly through code or workflows.\n\nSet the payments architecture direction: Turn a genuinely ambiguous area into a clear technical strategy, without waiting for someone else to define the problem.\n\nCut the cost to process: Own payment accuracy and processing efficiency as the direct levers on cost-to-process.\n\nDesign how the squad works: Define the squad's operating model and set the pace, rather than waiting for a playbook.\n\nOwn the big picture: Manage sequencing and dependencies, diagnose why throughput isn't improving, and make sure the squad's work is visible to stakeholders.\n\nBuild a high-performance team: Coach junior engineers while working the hardest problems alongside our senior engineer, and define what good looks like by working the details with the team.\n\nPartner on people decisions: Flag promotion and hiring gaps to your manager, who keeps line management and performance conversations. Decisions on people are made jointly.\n\nRequirements\nMust-Haves\nA track record as a Staff Engineer, owning the outcome of a squad's delivery and the standards it works to.\n\nA track record of leading from the front line: writing design docs, reviewing PRs and ADRs, and solving problems hands-on while setting direction.\n\nThe ability to balance hands-on work on the biggest technical challenges with coaching more junior engineers, holding the whole team to a consistent quality and speed bar.\n\nExperience designing a team's ways of working from scratch, balancing speed, quality and resilience.\n\nExperience owning cross-team sequencing and dependencies, and diagnosing throughput problems rather than just reporting them.\n\nComfort cutting through real ambiguity to set technical direction, and driving technical blockers to resolution rather than just visibility.\n\nFor this position, we are ideally seeking someone who comes from the payments industry and can help make it a competitive advantage.\n\nDesirable\nExperience improving cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service.\n\nExperience taking a service from a basic first version to something built for scale.\n\nBenefits & Perks\nCompetitive salary.\n\nStock options so everyone has ownership in our mission.\n\n25 days holiday plus public holidays. Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you, and enjoy your birthday off.\n\nRemote first and flexible working, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.\n\nUp to GBP1,200 or EUR1,200 per year for your remote setup.\n\nUp to GBP150 or EUR150 per month for wellbeing.\n\nInterview Process\nFirst call with our Talent Team (30 mins).\n\nBehaviour Interview with the Hiring Manager (60 mins).\n\nTechnical Interview with Martin and/or Pawel (90 mins). You will discuss system design and have a technical Q&A.\n\nCulture-Add Interview with Product and Leadership stakeholders (45 mins).\n\nWe welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. 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