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title: 'Staff Full Stack Engineer - Sell Side at tem'
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# Staff Full Stack Engineer - Sell Side at tem

- **Company:** tem
- **Location:** Europe
- **Compensation:** £101k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tem/41749b32-a8eb-41d3-b57a-5689925e9b70

## 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 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](https://www.gpbullhound.com/articles/allstars-awards-2026-winners-announced/), came in at #6 on [LinkedIn's Top Startups 2026](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2026-20-uk-companies-rise-linkedin-news-uk-xoffc) in the UK, #7 on the [Scaling Europe 50](https://scalingeurope.co.uk/) of Europe's fastest-growing companies, and #14 on [Sifted's AI 100](https://lnkd.in/p/ehxWgJyc). Learn more about us on our [website](https://www.tem.energy/).

🏅 The Role: We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join Origination & New Products, a new three-person squad inside Sell Side Growth. Sell Side Growth originates, contracts, and retains the renewable generators whose volume powers our platform - without generators, there's no product. The engine is scaling fast, and much of the manual process underneath today's pipeline - tendering, contracting, onboarding - needs to be rebuilt to handle that growth rather than buckle under it. This is a deep, hands-on IC role, not a squad-lead one - that's owned by the Staff/Senior Staff engineer leading the initiative. You're free to go all-in on the hardest technical problems: integration with Rosso (our pricing and settlement engine), Control Room (our core tendering and pipeline platform), and the deal-gating risk tooling that lets us take on genuinely new categories of commercial risk safely. We're not hiring for leadership polish here. We're hiring a ridiculously good engineer. In your first 12 months, you might:

- Own architecture-level decisions on the integration-heavy systems connecting Origination & New Products to Rosso, Data, and Billing.
- Help ship the first new product category live and generating qualified pipeline within 6 months.
- Help solve the tendering automation problem that currently limits how much volume the team can quote on - one of the highest-leverage levers for supporting our growth.
- Contribute to productising a currently manual, error-prone pricing process that's already turning away large, complex deals.
- Design deal-gating risk tooling for commercial risk categories that don't exist yet at tem, within our React/TypeScript and Python/AWS serverless stack.

🚀 Responsibilities:

- Go deep on hard systems: Own architecture-level decisions on integration-heavy systems, reasoning clearly about boundaries, contracts, and failure modes.
- Build for ambiguity: Take a piece of an undefined, commercially-driven problem and turn it into a shippable plan, within the direction your squad lead sets.
- Work across boundaries: Deliver on dependencies that sit with teams you have no authority over, such as Rosso, Data, and Billing, getting integrations right without needing to own the relationship.
- Build with impact: Design, build, and ship the hardest parts of the new-product build sequence yourself, backend-first but comfortable moving into the React/TypeScript front end when it matters.
- Maintain high standards: Write clean, well-tested code, contribute to code reviews, and help improve team practices and documentation.

🎯 Requirements: Must-Haves:

- Deep technical depth in backend and systems design, with a track record of owning architecture-level decisions on complex, integration-heavy systems.
- Comfortable in our core stack: Python, AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge), and event-driven architectures. React/TypeScript exposure is a plus but not the bar.
- Comfort operating without a full spec: able to take a defined slice of an ambiguous problem and turn it into a shippable plan.
- Experience delivering work where a critical dependency sits with a team you have no authority over.
- Proven product delivery experience: experience as a Full Stack or Backend Engineer in a startup or fast-paced product environment, with ownership of complex projects from start to finish.

Desirable:

- Prior experience mentoring engineers or setting technical direction, even without a formal leadership title. Not required. We'd rather have a brilliant engineer who has never led a squad than a mediocre one who has.
- Experience in energy, fintech, or another regulated, high-stakes commercial domain.
- Exposure to workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or real-time pricing engines.
- Experience originating new product lines from scratch rather than only scaling existing ones.

✨ Benefits & Perks:

- Competitive salary - our current band for this role is £104,000 or equivalent in local currency.
- We pay against a clear benchmark for your role and level. No fixed once- or twice-a-year cycle - pay moves when the evidence for it does.
- Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
- 25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
- Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
- Home working & wellbeing budgets:
- Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
- Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

🗣️ Interview Process: Our processes normally take around 2-3 weeks from first call to offer - please let us know about any adjustments to timelines that may be required.

- First call with our Talent Team (30 Mins). This is to understand your experience, motivations, and discuss the role in more detail.
- Behaviour Interview with our Engineering Managers (60 Mins). This is your chance to really understand the role, the expectations, and ensure alignment on ways of working.
- Technical Interview with the Team (75 Mins). You’ll meet with potential peers in this session and will discuss technical topics and experiences.
- Bar Raiser Interview with Stakeholders (45 Mins). The final session will be with two cross-functional stakeholders, and will explore how your values align with ours, and is designed to be a genuine two-way conversation, your chance to understand what it’s really like to work at tem.

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.

## About tem

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: tem is building an AI-native transaction infrastructure for energy markets, operating a modern utility (RED) that delivers cheaper, transparent electricity to businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joe McDonald (Co-Founder & CEO), Ross Mackay (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Energy Technology / Energy Trading & Utility
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily small-to-medium businesses and renewable generators; expanding to enterprise customers.
- **Mission**: “Universal access to the lowest-cost electricity” by reinventing how energy is bought and sold using AI.

## Products & Services
- **[RED](https://www.tem.energy/)**: A “neo-utility” experience for business customers. Provides transparent, 30% cheaper energy bills with half-hourly metering, no hidden fees, and a digital dashboard for usage and billing. Currently the only utility using tem’s infrastructure.
- **[Rosso](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/tem-raises-75m-to-remake-electricity-markets-using-ai/)**: The core AI transaction engine that matches electricity generators with buyers. Uses machine learning and LLMs to predict supply/demand, automate trading, and remove intermediaries. Planned to be opened to other utilities in the future.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Over $300 million (per a source familiar with the Series B deal, reported by TechCrunch, Feb 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$91.9M** (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead, Series B), Atomico (lead, Series A), AlbionVC, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Revent, Schroders Capital, Voyager Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 6,000+ business sites now run on RED ([tem.energy](https://www.tem.energy/)).
  - Headcount: 99 employees (LinkedIn), with +7.3% monthly growth.
  - Customers include Boohoo Group, Fever-Tree, and Newcastle United FC.
  - 26 active job postings (as of mid-2025), with monthly job postings up 52.9%.
  - Plans to expand to Australia and Texas (US) using Series B funds.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native infrastructure**: Replaces multiple human-driven trading desks and intermediaries with a single AI-powered transaction layer, drastically reducing costs and latency.
- **Transparency & pricing**: Customers save up to 30% on bills compared to wholesale market prices; bills are itemised with no hidden markups.
- **Marketplace dynamics**: Focus on decentralised renewable generators and small businesses creates an ideal environment for the algorithms, and the model scales to enterprise.
- **Dual business model**: RED proves the value of Rosso while generating revenue; Rosso is designed to become the AWS/Stripe of energy transactions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term**: Scale RED in the UK, deepen customer base, and prove unit economics. Continue hiring across engineering, product, and growth.
- **Expansion**: Enter Australia and the US (starting with Texas) to replicate the model in deregulated markets.
- **Long-term**: Open Rosso to third-party utilities to capture all transaction flow, aiming to become the universal infrastructure for energy trading.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team focused on solving climate and energy affordability through technology. Described as a “classic marketplace play” with a strong engineering ethos.
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote work environment (offices in UK but most employees work remotely).
- **Growth & impact**: High-growth startup with $91.9M in funding and a clear path to IPO (CEO has stated intention to go public). Employees have the opportunity to shape the future of energy markets.
- **Open roles**: 26 active positions including ML Engineering Lead, Staff Full Stack Engineer, Senior Analytics Engineer, Principal Product Designer, and more. Strong emphasis on technical talent (32% of workforce in technical roles).
- **Perks**: Not detailed, but the remote setup, equity in a fast-scaling company, and the chance to work on AI infrastructure for a critical industry are key draws.

## Sources
1. [tem.energy](https://www.tem.energy/)
2. [LinkedIn - tem](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/tem-energy)
3. [TechCrunch - Tem raises $75M](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/tem-raises-75m-to-remake-electricity-markets-using-ai/)
4. [Built In - tem energy](https://builtin.com/company/tem)
5. [Ashby - tem jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tem)

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