tem
energy
SeniorStaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Staff Software Engineer at tem. Skills: Distributed Systems Expertise, Technical Leadership, Hands-On Engineering Depth, Modern Backend Experience, Systems Thinking. Lead major technical initiatives from design through production. improve scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems”
What You'll Achieve.
making the energy transaction transparent and fair; put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers; take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity; cut out the inefficient fees; automate complex market flows; bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale; positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership; building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide; facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value; transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception; improve scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems; Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction; Raise Engineering Standards: Mentor senior engineers, influence architectural direction, and improve engineering practices across the organisation.; Design for Scale: Anticipate scaling challenges before they emerge - improving throughput, resilience, and platform evolution as the business grows.
Industry & Context.
Solve Complex Workflow Problems; Pragmatic Problem Solving: untangling difficult technical and organisational problems using first-principles thinking.; Systems Thinking: reasoning about correctness, failure modes, data consistency, scalability, and operational trade-offs in complex systems.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Technical Leadership: operated at Staff or Senior Staff level and led technically complex initiatives with meaningful business impact., Distributed Systems Expertise: deep experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and asynchronous workflows., Hands-On Engineering Depth: building software directly - writing production code, reviewing designs, debugging systems, and improving architecture., Modern Backend Experience: experience with technologies such as Python, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB), event-driven/serverless architectures, distributed systems and workflow orchestration., Systems Thinking: comfortable reasoning about correctness, failure modes, data consistency, scalability, and operational trade-offs in complex systems., Cross-Functional Influence: align technical decisions with product, commercial, and customer outcomes while navigating ambiguity effectively., Pragmatic Problem Solving: untangling difficult technical and organisational problems using first-principles thinking.
Nice to Have
Experience with high-scale infrastructure or performance-sensitive systems, Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms, Exposure to workflow engines, orchestration systems, or real-time decision systems, Experience integrating ML models into production environments, Familiarity with regulated industries such as energy, fintech, or govtech, Experience evolving systems from startup scale to multi-product platforms, Knowledge of Kubernetes, Spark, or large-scale data systems
What You'll Do.
Lead major technical initiatives from design through production
and correctness across critical systems
Design and evolve backend services
event-driven workflows
Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability
and incident reduction
Design systems that handle long-running workflows
asynchronous processing
consistency guarantees
and failure recovery in high-stakes environments
Productionise Machine Learning: Collaborate with ML and data teams to safely integrate forecasting
and pricing models into production systems
Design for Scale: Anticipate scaling challenges before they emerge - improving throughput
and platform evolution as the business grows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work Across Teams: Lead initiatives spanning engineering, product, data, commercial, and machine learning teams - aligning stakeholders and unblocking delivery.; Collaborate with ML and data teams to safely integrate forecasting, optimisation, and pricing models into production systems.
Process & Methodology
Drive major technical initiatives from design through production
Full Job Description
📈 Who We Are: We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. Our 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. tem 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. We’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. In 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. We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide. Since 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. At 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. 🏅 THE ROLE: We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help evolve one of the most critical platforms at tem. This platform powers complex commercial workflows across forecasting, pricing, optimisation, and deal execution - sitting directly on the path between customer demand and reve
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