
Providing heating for homes, buildings, and industry accounts for roughly 50% of global energy consumption. Heating is, therefore, one of the largest opportunities in the world to decarbonise; transforming Heating Grids unlocks the potential of low-carbon heat sources such as geothermal and waste heat. Yet, as Heating Grids transform, they will become increasingly complex and require a new approach to control and design. We believe that digital and data play a key role in this transformation and that traditional tooling for District Heating and Industrial Steam Grids has been insufficient. With our real-time Digital Twin Platform, we create a digital copy of your complete Heating Grid that runs in real time. This comprehensive software solution lets you optimise your grid, increase control and run simulations of future situations. So you can improve performance, reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10%, save on operating costs, realise up to 20% lower CapEx and make smarter operational and business decisions. We work with large district and industrial heating partners in Europe, such as E.ON, Eneco, Ennatuurlijk, Helen, Nobian, Shell, Uniper, and Wien Energie. Our team consists of 100+ energy specialists, engineers, data scientists and top-tier consulting alumni and is backed by investors Capricorn Partners, Eneco, ENERGIIQ, and Helen Ventures.

Providing heating for homes, buildings, and industry accounts for roughly 50% of global energy consumption. Heating is, therefore, one of the largest opportunities in the world to decarbonise; transforming Heating Grids unlocks the potential of low-carbon heat sources such as geothermal and waste heat. Yet, as Heating Grids transform, they will become increasingly complex and require a new approach to control and design. We believe that digital and data play a key role in this transformation and that traditional tooling for District Heating and Industrial Steam Grids has been insufficient. With our real-time Digital Twin Platform, we create a digital copy of your complete Heating Grid that runs in real time. This comprehensive software solution lets you optimise your grid, increase control and run simulations of future situations. So you can improve performance, reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10%, save on operating costs, realise up to 20% lower CapEx and make smarter operational and business decisions. We work with large district and industrial heating partners in Europe, such as E.ON, Eneco, Ennatuurlijk, Helen, Nobian, Shell, Uniper, and Wien Energie. Our team consists of 100+ energy specialists, engineers, data scientists and top-tier consulting alumni and is backed by investors Capricorn Partners, Eneco, ENERGIIQ, and Helen Ventures.
Product: Real-time Digital Twin platform for heating, cooling and steam grids
Founded / HQ: 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Customers / Deployments: Energy companies across Europe; deployments in 35+ cities
Recent funding: €28M Series B announced Apr 2025
Team size (reported): 100–140+ employees
Decarbonisation and operational optimisation of district and industrial heating, cooling and steam networks.
2019
Software Development
€28M
Growth round with participation from SEB Greentech Venture Capital and continued support from existing investors including Capricorn Partners, Eneco Ventures and Helen Ventures.
“Led by Blue Earth Capital with participation from SEB Greentech Venture Capital and continued support from strategic energy investors (Capricorn Partners, Eneco Ventures, Helen Ventures, ENERGIIQ)”
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About Gradyent A quarter of all energy in the world is consumed to heat buildings. District heating is the most significant opportunity for cities to decarbonise. Gradyent is on a mission to help cities to decarbonise faster by digitising district heating with our digital twin. Backed by a group of top investors, we are scaling the platform globally.
We currently have a team of 60+ people and offices in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Germany and Hungary. Our team combines programmers and energy specialists, data scientists and top-tier consulting alums. We are expanding quickly and looking for a Product Lead in the Netherlands to help us scale our SaaS platform across Europe.
What we do
We offer a SaaS solution to create digital twins of heating networks. These digital twins, powered by AI and analytics, optimise (district) heating networks from heat sources to customers. As a result, we are transforming networks by reducing CO2 emissions and optimising operations in terms of temperatures, pressures, and other metrics. These solutions minimise energy usage, CO2 emissions and operating costs while maintaining the proper end-user service levels.
What You'll Do As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our multi-tenant SaaS platform. You'll be responsible for the infrastructure supporting our application layer, which hosts web applications (Java, Node.js, React) and proxies within our Kubernetes environment. You will be at the center of our ongoing migration to a Kubernetes-based platform on AWS. Working alongside the rest of the Cloud team, you'll design and implement efficient, cost-effective, and high-performance infrastructure with robust monitoring and security measures.
Your work will directly enable development teams to continuously deploy new features—from enhancing our interactive Digital Twins of district heating networks to handling high-volume sensor data integrations from client systems. You'll operate in a modern tech stack with minimal legacy constraints, within an open and agile engineering culture where the best technical ideas win.
This is a self-directed role where you'll tackle complex infrastructure challenges with autonomy. We're looking for someone who can take high-level requirements and independently determine the technical implementation details.
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Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Gradyent, we support a growth mindset for our teams through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
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