How Kaluza Uses Our Embedded Experts

Client

An OVO Group company, Kaluza is an intelligent platform ecosystem, powering the future of energy. From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Kaluza’s technology is empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

Kaluza’s market leading innovation is recognised across the industry, winning ‘Technological Innovation’ in edie’s Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020, ‘Transport Technology’ in BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2019 and ‘Best Innovation in Electricity’ at the UK Energy Innovation Awards 2019.

About

Industry

Automotive

Company size

250-500

Client Market

Global

Location

Services Offered

Challenge

Meeting the growing demand for its innovative cloud technology

To meet demand, Kaluza needed additional developers to join different software squads, working across various products.

The company required expertly skilled software engineers who can not only hit the ground running, but proactively contribute to new product development and tech stack expansion.

Some of the main technologies required to augment the skills gap were React, ES6, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, Go, Python, microservices architecture, Kafka and cloud technologies.

Kaluza's Needs:
Grow the software team, modernise tech stack & kick-off the project quickly.

Solution

Significantly increasing the capacity of a team in a short span of time

Zartis deployed 4 software experts with the required skills.

Significantly increasing the capacity of one of the teams in a short span of time.

Since 2019, our team has expanded to over 30 engineers.

Working across different products, and squads – from locations such as Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, the UK, France and Croatia.

The Zartis Approach

Cross functional teams working across multiple products and squads

Rapid team scaling

Zartis was able to quickly hire 4 engineers with the required skills in the initial deployment, significantly increasing the capacity of one of Kaluza's teams in a short span of time.

What we delivered: Since 2019, our team has expanded to over 30 engineers working across different products and squads.

Embedded squad model

Zartis engineers integrated directly into Kaluza's product squads as full team members, not external contractors.

Solution: Our engineers participate in daily standups and sprint planning, contributing to product development and architecture decisions alongside Kaluza's internal teams.

What this means: Zartis engineers are actively involved in:

Enabling remote-first collaboration

Zartis engineers brought valuable expertise in effective remote working, helping establish highly efficient processes and workflows optimised for remote collaboration.

Solution: Working together, Zartis and Kaluza developed optimised communication processes ensuring transparency across distributed teams.

What we enabled:

Knowledge transfer & upskilling

Beyond delivery, Zartis engineers actively share expertise across a range of cutting-edge technologies.

What we do: Sharing expertise across modern frontend frameworks like React and TypeScript, backend microservices patterns using Go and Node.js, and event-driven architectures powered by Kafka.

What we enabled:

6+ years of working together & continuing collaboration

"We experienced a period of rapid growth and needed to scale up one of our teams quickly. Zartis was pivotal in enabling us to do this, sourcing a team of high-calibre engineers and taking care of all of the logistics from interviewing to the provision of office space and IT equipment. The engineers and Zartis in general are professional, reliable and a pleasure to work with."