Senior Backend Engineer - Pricing

Europe, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will join the Pricing squad to build and maintain the pricing engine for the RED utility product. You will design and ship components of the Pricing API and consolidate pricing logic into a single service.

What you will do

Design and ship components of the Pricing API from design through to production
Help bring the time to a first customer price down dramatically
Build error handling, observability and alerting for pricing
Extract and consolidate pricing logic so the pricing engine owns its own behaviour
Handle live pricing questions and incidents

Required qualifications

Production backend Python
Comfortable with FastAPI and SQL
Experience with data- and analytics-heavy systems
Product engineering nous
Build with agents such as Claude or similar in daily workflow
Ability to own a project end to end

Nice to have

Domain knowledge from fintech, energy pricing or neo-utilities, or ad-tech
Experience working inside or alongside machine learning teams
AWS and serverless patterns (Lambda, event-driven services, Postgres on RDS)
Polars, or a taste for making numerical code fast

Benefits

Competitive salary
Stock options
25 days holiday plus public holidays
Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you
Birthday off
Remote first and flexible working
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

About the company

tem is a technology company rebuilding the energy transaction to be transparent and fair. They power energy for over 4,000 UK businesses across 8,500+ sites.