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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 Staff QA Automation Engineer to help shape how quality engineering works across tem.\nQA sits inside Platform, a central team that builds the tooling and standards the rest of engineering runs on. You'll design the frameworks and practices that let them test well themselves, and scale into the future. As we scale, you'll lead and develop scripts that equip engineering teams with the automation and standards to own quality themselves.\nThe product is built on a microservice architecture that brings real complexity to testing. You'll own the quality engineering approach as the organisation scales - setting the standards, building the tooling, and driving adoption across engineering.\nWhat you'll work on:\nA risk-aware CI testing standard any team can run: a dependency model that drives test selection and breaking-change detection, so most PRs get a fast targeted run with a clear confidence signal at the point of change.\n\nUnit, integration, and contract testing standards with an observability layer that keeps pipelines honest and not flaky. Proven through reference test suites in real service repos, not a QA-authored checklist.\n\nThe quality side of canary releases: working with the wider Platform team to define automated pass/fail analysis against production traffic so deployments promote or roll back without manual sign-off.\n\nAI in the quality pipeline: LLM-based change-risk classification, targeted mutation testing, test generation, and self-healing checks. We already use LLM tooling across QA and want someone to take it further.\n\nYou report to Bartek Kucharski (QA). Specialist individual contributor, no direct reports.\nRequirements\nMust haves:\nExpertise in test automation frameworks including pytest, Playwright, Selenium, and API testing or similar.\n\nExperience architecting and maintaining test automation frameworks and tooling used across a wider engineering organisation.\n\nDeep knowledge of testing across microservice or distributed systems, including API-level automation, CI/CD integration, and service-level testing strategies.\n\nExperience leading innovation and PoCs in testing, particularly AI-led regression optimisation and change-risk analysis.\n\nStrong collaboration and delivery focus across multi-project environments and distributed teams.\n\nContract testing or consumer/provider verification (Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar).\n\nAWS infrastructure experience (Lambda, GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, deployment tooling).\n\nNice to have:\nProgressive deployment experience: canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback from production signals.\n\nMutation testing, whether traditional tooling or LLM-based.\n\nTest-data management and environment-isolation strategy in shared environments.\n\nExperience in a regulated or high-stakes domain (energy, fintech, payments).\n\nBenefits & Perks\nOur current band for this role is £104,000 or equivalent in local currency.\nWe pay against a clear benchmark for your role and level. No fixed once- or twice-a-year cycle - pay moves when the evidence for it does.\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 within the UK and Europe.\n\nHome working and wellbeing budgets.\n\nInterview Process\nWe move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. If you need us to adapt anything, let us know.\nIntro call with Talent, 30 minutes.\n\nBehavioural Interview with the Hiring Manager, 60 minutes.\n\nSkills interview with cross-functional leaders, 90 - 120min minutes, including a practical exercise on framework design and AI-in-test.\n\nBar Raiser interview with leadership stakeholders, 45 minutes.\n\nWe welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. 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