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Senior/Lead Backend Engineer

Fuse Energy - London, England, United Kingdom - In-office - posted 2026-08-24

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Fuse Energy is an AI-first energy company building a fully integrated energy system combining solar, batteries, grid infrastructure, real-time power trading, and distributed energy solutions for consumers. The company has raised over $200M from top-tier investors including Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, and others, with strategic angels from Meta, Revolut, Spotify, and Uber. You will join as a Senior Backend Engineer, owning core digital infrastructure systems end-to-end with high autonomy as an individual contributor. Key responsibilities include: • Building the inference layer for AI workloads, serving millions of prompts daily across customer support and meter-reading OCR, and migrating workloads to proprietary GPU infrastructure. • Solving a core data challenge in energy: settlement data arriving months after delivery, requiring systems that support continuous recalculation as new information becomes available. • Developing the real-time billing engine with per-customer ordering, idempotency, audit trails, and pricing based on half-hourly meter data. • Building and extending trading and hedging systems covering forward markets, portfolio optimization, and reconciliation against direct exchange connections. • Designing and architecting backend systems from conception through production deployment. This role offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical infrastructure for a next-generation energy company, combining AI, real-time systems, financial engineering, and grid technology. REQUIREMENTS: • Demonstrable excellence as a software engineer • 2+ years of experience (company is hiring across levels, from mid-level to Heads of Engineering) • Proven ability to define and build complex systems • Hands-on experience shipping highly available production systems • Clear communication skills

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