Senior Staff Engineer

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🕒 May 18

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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tem

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

⚡ Energy

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Energy • eCommerce • SaaS

tem is a company that empowers businesses to save on energy costs by directly purchasing from renewable energy generators. With its innovative RED™ product, tem simplifies the energy procurement process, offering transparency and a streamlined portal for managing contracts, quotes, and billing. The company aims to reduce the expense associated with traditional energy suppliers, enabling clients to cut energy costs by up to 25% while supporting the transition to renewable energy. tem's mission is to create accessible renewable energy solutions for all businesses, promoting sustainability and fair pricing within the energy market.

📋 Description

• Lead Through Execution: Drive major technical initiatives from design through production, improving scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems. • Build Distributed Systems: Design and evolve backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data models that support complex business processes at scale. • Own Critical Platform Infrastructure: Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction. • Solve Complex Workflow Problems: Design systems that handle long-running workflows, asynchronous processing, consistency guarantees, and failure recovery in high-stakes environments. • Work Across Teams: Lead initiatives spanning engineering, product, data, commercial, and machine learning teams - aligning stakeholders and unblocking delivery. • Productionise Machine Learning: Collaborate with ML and data teams to safely integrate forecasting, optimisation, and pricing models into production systems. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong Technical Leadership: You’ve operated at Staff or Senior Staff level and have 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: You still enjoy building software directly - writing production code, reviewing designs, debugging systems, and improving architecture. • Modern Backend Experience: Strong experience with technologies such as: • - Python • - AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) • - Event-driven/serverless architectures • - Distributed systems and workflow orchestration • Systems Thinking: You’re comfortable reasoning about correctness, failure modes, data consistency, scalability, and operational trade-offs in complex systems. • Cross-Functional Influence: You can align technical decisions with product, commercial, and customer outcomes while navigating ambiguity effectively. • Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You enjoy untangling difficult technical and organisational problems using first-principles thinking.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary - We review salaries twice a year using real-time market data, with transparent, consistent pay for the same role and level. • Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission. • 25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉. • Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons. • Home working & wellbeing budgets: • Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.). • Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.