Software Engineering Manager

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Job Title: Software Engineering Manager Location: Paris (Hybrid) Salary: €72,800 - €91,,000 Team: Client Engineering Reporting To: Head of Client Engineering This role is based in Paris and requires an existing right to work in France. 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. 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? People Leadership & Growth: Look after up to 2 cross-functional teams of engineers (up to 10 direct reports), nurturing engineering talent, encouraging personal development, and managing performance to ensure alignment with delivery objectives. Client Engagement & Value Delivery: Work closely with our clients (including major partners like ENGIE), alongside product managers and client success teams, to translate complex client requirements into technical reality and ensure high-value delivery. Technical Guidance: Leverage your technical experience to contribute to and guide architecture and implementation discussions, bringing big-picture context and ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and resilient. Strategic Roadmap Execution: Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for your domain, steering both the technical and product vision to ensure your team's products are highly successful. Operational Excellence: Act as a champion for operational excellence within your area, establishing fundamental ways of working, eliminating engineering blockers, and optimizing team delivery. About You Ideally you'll have/be: Engineering Management Experience: Proven experience in an Engineering Management or related leadership role guiding high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams. Client-Facing & Relationship Mastery: Strong track record of developing and maintaining positive client relationships, actively listening to needs, providing transparent communication, and managing stakeholder expectations. Modern Technical Architecture: An excellent understanding of a broad set of modern technologies, specifically distributed architectures and event-based systems (e.g., Kafka). Agile Frameworks: A fundamental and practical understanding of Agile and Lean software development practices. Communication & Collaboration: Superb communication and interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating closely with senior leaders, product managers, and external technical teams. What will set you apart: Domain Expertise: Experience within enterprise billing, finance and ledger tooling, payments systems integration, ecommerce, or energy generation/supply (especially DSO integration). Innovative Engineering Practices: Experience optimizing software engineering teams and development workflows through the strategic use of AI, ML, and/or Large Language Models (LLMs). 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. 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 our careers page and LinkedIn . You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here . Please review this finalized job description. If you are happy with the layout and details, confirm your approval and I will immediately move forward to generating the Interview Assessment Kit!

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