Energy Retail Software Engineering Manager — Hybrid

Kaluza; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Progressive leave policies

Annual discretionary bonus

Dedicated personal learning and home/5

Flexible working — 3 days in our CBDm

26 days holiday

Novated Leasing

Purchase Leave

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Energy Retail platform in Melbourne. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive architecture and design decisions, and champion modern engineering practices in a hybrid work model.

Ideal candidates have a strong hands-on technical foundation, extensive leadership experience, and a track record of delivering scalable, observable production systems within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated domain expertise in energy retail, whether specialised in a particular area or across the end-to-end customer lifecycle.
• Proven experience in software engineering leadership with a strong, hands-on technical foundation.
• Experienced in building scalable, resilient, and observable production systems.
• A track record of building, managing and leading multiple engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Experienced across the full development lifecycle: technical discovery, architectural design, prototyping, delivery, and operational monitoring.
• A strong collaborator who thrives in team environments and enjoys working closely with others to deliver impactful features.
• An advocate for test automation, continuous delivery, and modern agile practices — and keen to help others adopt them.
• Motivated by owning products end-to-end — from shaping the early technical direction through to iterating based on real-world feedback.
• Well-versed in modern engineering practices, continuous delivery principles, and optimising high-performance applications.
• Curious and growth-oriented — always looking to deepen your expertise or explore new areas.
• A bias to action and a 'can do' approach to problem solving in the face of uncertainty.
• Familiarity with supporting clients in high-level solution design decisions and throughout complex integrations and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Manage the professional development of engineers through active mentoring, training, and career coaching
• Build, manage and lead multiple high-performing engineering teams in an agile environment
• Shape team ceremonies, drive good agile practices, and evolve how teams collaborate and deliver
• Act as a natural mentor — sharing knowledge, offering guidance in code reviews and pairing sessions, and helping others grow
• Serve as a credible technical leader with hands-on involvement in architectural decision-making and trade-offs
• Facilitate technical design across the full development lifecycle: from architectural design and rapid prototyping through to deployment and operational monitoring
• Champion engineering best practices including test automation, continuous delivery, and modern agile practices — and drive adoption across teams
• Coach your team to build and maintain scalable, resilient, and observable systems in production environments
• Maintain and improve service reliability and performance, and participate in the on-call support rota to triage platform issues and respond to incidents
• Create and deliver against the technical strategy for your team in partnership with other engineering leaders
• Work within a team of senior leaders responsible for designing and evolving platform capabilities
• Highlight client‑requested features and emerging trends to product and engineering teams to help shape the global platform
• Provide solution expertise to guide development activities performed by our clients, third‑party partners, and other Kaluza teams
• Work across the forward deployed engineering function to ensure Kaluza engineering teams have the necessary understanding of clients' technology ecosystems and integration architecture
• Participate in the resolution of incidents, including providing guidance to the response team based on client‑specific considerations

Skills

Energy retail domain expertise

Engineering leadership

Hands-on software engineering

Building scalable systems

Agile / Scrum experience

Mentoring and coaching

Job description

Kaluza is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Energy Retail platform in Melbourne. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive architecture and design decisions, and champion modern engineering practices in a hybrid work model.

Ideal candidates have a strong hands-on technical foundation, extensive leadership experience, and a track record of delivering scalable, observable production systems within an Agile environment.