Staff Engineer - Pricing
tem · Remote · Europe · United Kingdom ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote
- Python + FastAPI
- Energy tech sector
- Stock options
Join tem as a Staff Software Engineer to build and manage the Pricing API behind RED, their modern utility product. You will lead the extraction of pricing logic into a dedicated service, ensuring high performance, reliability, and explainability for real-time energy contracts. This role requires deep backend expertise and a focus on data correctness in a quant-heavy environment.
What you'll do
- Build and iterate the Pricing API for speed, correctness, and third-party access.
- Lead the extraction of pricing logic into a standalone service with clean boundaries.
- Design systems to detect pricing errors and explain unquoteable scenarios.
- Improve engineering standards through design reviews and multi-agent workflows.
- Resolve live pricing incidents and implement structural fixes.
What you'll need
- Deep production experience with backend Python and scalable API design.
- Proven track record of leading complex system decoupling or migrations.
- Strong proficiency in FastAPI, SQL, and data-heavy analytics systems.
- Ability to set technical direction and negotiate service boundaries across teams.
- Experience designing multi-agent workflows to enhance team throughput.
- Product engineering judgment balancing speed, accuracy, and explainability.
Nice to have
- Domain knowledge in energy pricing, fintech, or neo-utilities.
- Experience building APIs for external third-party consumption.
- Familiarity with AWS serverless patterns like Lambda and RDS.
- Experience with Polars or optimizing numerical code performance.
Stack
- Python
- FastAPI
- SQL
- AWS
- Lambda
- Postgres
- Polars
How you'll work
- Remote first with flexible working arrangements.
- Clear core hours required.
- No internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
What you get
- Stock options for all employees.
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays.
- Option to swap public holidays for personal ones.
- Birthday off.
- Annual budget up to EUR1,400 for remote setup.
- Monthly wellbeing allowance up to EUR170.
Hiring process
- 30-minute intro call with Talent Partner.
- 60-minute behavioural interview.
- 75-minute technical interview with practical exercise.
- 45-minute Bar Raiser interview with leadership.