Staff Backend Engineer - Pricing

tem; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 94,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

25 days holiday + public holidays

Remote first and flexible working with

Remote setup allowance £1,200 / €1,400

Wellbeing allowance £150 / €170 per

Job summary

tem is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer, Pricing, to build and evolve the Pricing API behind RED, tem's modern utility product. You will price real energy contracts for businesses and generators, prioritizing correctness and speed.

This senior role focuses on backend and data-heavy work with a strong emphasis on explainability. In the first 12 months, you’ll drive the Pricing API from design to third-party access, consolidate pricing logic into a single service with a stable cutover, and

Qualifications

• Proven backend Python design and API ownership at scale.
• Led decoupling or migration of a live system without breaking dependencies.
• Strong FastAPI and SQL with data-heavy, money-critical systems.
• Ability to set direction across teams and negotiate boundaries.
• Experience designing multi-agent workflows to raise throughput.
• Judgement balancing speed, accuracy, and explainability in pricing.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate the Pricing API for fast, correct third-party access.
• Untangle pricing logic into a standalone service with clear boundaries.
• Own reliability: detect pricing errors, prevent bad quotes, explain prices.
• Raise engineering standards through reviews and cross-team collaboration.
• Respond to live pricing incidents and implement structural fixes.

Skills

Deep production backend Python

Decoupling/migration of a live system

FastAPI and SQL

Negotiating service boundaries

Agent-native multi-agent workflows

Product engineering judgement

Job description

Who We Are:

We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. We're rebuilding how energy is bought and sold. That means cutting out middlemen, connecting businesses directly with renewable generators, and ensuring every transaction is

Who We Are:

We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. We're rebuilding how energy is bought and sold. That means cutting out middlemen, connecting businesses directly with renewable generators, and ensuring every transaction is traceable and transparent. We're a 160+ person team - operators, data scientists, engineers, customer champions and energy experts - backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hitachi Ventures, Allianz, AlbionVC and Atomico. We closed a $75M Series B round in early 2026, taking our total funding to $94M, and we now power energy for over 4,000 UK businesses across 8,500+ sites, with over £75m in value returned to businesses and generators so far. We're a technology company solving the energy industry, not an energy company. Some people call us a neo-utility, the neo-bank idea, applied to energy. The industry is noticing. We were crowned Europe's Most Exciting Tech Company at the GP Bullhound Allstars awards, came in at #6 on LinkedIn's Top Startups 2026 in the UK, #7 on the Scaling Europe 50 of Europe's fastest-growing companies, and #14 on Sifted's AI 100. Learn more about us on our website.

The Role

We're hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer, Pricing. You'll build and manage the Pricing API behind RED, tem's modern utility product - its performance, and its reliability. The systems you build price real energy contracts for businesses buying electricity and renewable generators selling it, so correctness shows up as money and speed shows up as trust. This is a senior role in our Pricing squad. The focus is backend and data-heavy, with a quant-y flavour, and correctness is critical. You'll shape how our new Pricing API is built, untangle pricing from the systems around it, and make sure that when we can't price something, we can always explain why.

In your first 12 months, you might:

• See our new Pricing API built from first design through to being ready for third-party access.
• Lead the move of pricing logic into one service with a clean boundary, deciding when it is proven stable enough to cut over.
• Design the detection, alerting and explainability that catch bad or slow prices before they ever reach a customer.
• Help make pricing measurably faster for every customer quote.
• Raise the engineering bar across the squad through design reviews, standards and agent-driven workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build & iteration of the Pricing API, so it is fast, correct and ready to be opened up to third parties.
• Support with untangling: run the extraction of pricing logic into its own service as a programme, agreeing clean boundaries with neighbouring teams.
• Own reliability: design the systems that detect pricing errors, stop bad quotes going out and explain every price we can't give.
• Raise the bar: lift the standard of everyone working on pricing through design reviews, engineering standards, pairing and multi-agent workflows.
• Close the loop: be the go-to engineer when live pricing incidents escalates, and turn what you learn into structural fixes on the roadmap.

Requirements

Must-Haves

• Deep production backend Python: you have designed and owned APIs at scale, and been the person others escape to when they broke.
• You have led a significant decoupling or migration of a live system without breaking what depended on it.
• Strong FastAPI and SQL, and experience in data and analytics-heavy systems where the correctness of numbers costs money.
• You set technical direction across teams you don't manage, and can negotiate service boundaries with neighbouring teams.
• You are agent-native: you don't just use Claude or similar daily, you design multi-agent workflows that raise a whole team's throughput.
• Product engineering judgement: you know who reads a price and why, and you trade off speed, accuracy and explainability deliberately.

Desirable

• Domain knowledge from energy pricing, fintech or neo-utilities.
• Experience building APIs consumed by external third parties.
• AWS and serverless patterns (Lambda, event-driven services, Postgres on RDS).
• Polars, or a track record of making numerical code fast.

Benefits & Perks

• Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays. Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you, and enjoy your birthday off.
• Remote first and flexible working, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,400 per year for your remote setup.
• Up to GBP150 or EUR170 per month for wellbeing.

Interview Process

• Intro call with Talent Partner, Jack, 30 minutes.
• Behavioural interview, 60 minutes.
• Technical interview with members from the team, 75 minutes including a practical exercise.
• Bar Raiser interview with leadership stakeholders, 45 minutes.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.

Compensation Range: £104K