Staff Engineer – Pricing

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Staff Engineer building reliable, explainable Pricing APIs for tem’s AI-native electricity transaction platform. Improving speed, correctness and service architecture for business energy contracts.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and iterate the Pricing API behind RED, tem's modern utility product
  • Ensure pricing systems are fast, correct, reliable and ready for third-party access
  • Lead extraction of pricing logic into a dedicated service with clean boundaries
  • Decide when the new pricing service is stable enough to cut over
  • Design detection, alerting and explainability systems for bad or slow prices
  • Improve pricing speed for every customer quote
  • Raise engineering standards through design reviews, pairing and multi-agent workflows
  • Handle live pricing incidents and turn lessons into structural roadmap fixes
  • Price real energy contracts for businesses buying electricity and renewable generators selling it

Requirements:

  • Deep production backend Python experience; designed and owned APIs at scale
  • Led a significant decoupling or migration of a live system without breaking dependencies
  • Strong FastAPI and SQL
  • Experience with data- and analytics-heavy systems where numerical correctness has financial impact
  • Ability to set technical direction across teams and negotiate service boundaries with neighbouring teams
  • Experience designing multi-agent workflows using Claude or similar tools
  • Product engineering judgement balancing speed, accuracy and explainability
  • Desirable: domain knowledge from energy pricing, fintech or neo-utilities
  • Desirable: experience building APIs consumed by external third parties
  • Desirable: AWS and serverless patterns, including Lambda, event-driven services and Postgres on RDS
  • Desirable: Polars or a track record of making numerical code fast
  • Fluent English speaking, reading and writing

Benefits:

  • Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission
  • 25 days holiday plus public holidays
  • Ability to swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you
  • Birthday off
  • Remote first and flexible working
  • Clear core hours
  • 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