Manager, Engineering

Description

The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for changing the way millions of people save energy. You’ll work within the Engineering team to build and improve our platforms to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

You will lead a team of talented engineers in building scalable, high-quality, and user-focused products. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, people management, and product alignment.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for fostering a strong team culture, enabling engineering excellence, and aligning your team’s efforts with strategic business goals.

Responsibilities & Skills

You should:

• Have 12+ years of industry experience delivering Enterprise products with 3 to 5 years in an engineering leadership position.
• Have experience in building or scaling platforms, APIs, or enterprise-grade SaaS products using Python, React.
• Have Proven experience in leading high-performing engineering teams of 6+ members ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of features with strong attention to performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• An in-depth understanding of design principles and thinks technology as a solution enablement tool.
• Have a logical mindset and an aptitude to resolve highly complex problems, diagnose and identify issues and guide the team towards proper resolutions.
• Participate in architectural discussions, facilitate healthy debate, and recommend technical solutions when necessary.
• Follower of Scrum and experienced in implementing and optimizing agile development and continuous integration / continuous delivery methodologies. Familiarity with Atlassian suite (Jira and Confluence) is desirable.
• Understand Business concepts and drive daily decisions in line with company goals.
• Support project planning and prioritisation of resources.  Pragmatically work with peers in Account Management, Product Development, and Support, to balance customer needs, support issues, technical architecture needs, and new feature development.
• Refined people leader.  Ability to lead and mentor a geographically dispersed team of engineers, enabling them to grow technically and professionally.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusivity, and continuous improvement. Provide regular feedback, conduct performance reviews, and support career growth.

Required Skills:

• Desire to learn and grow your skills with a dynamic and innovative Engineering organization.
• Experience coding with Python and/or React/Angular with Big data technologies - like Databricks(Data Lake, Big Query etc…)
• Knowledge of cloud-native design principles, security, cost optimization, and CI/CD in AWS and/or GCP with familiarity of core services like EC2, S3, Lambda, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, CloudRun, etc.
• Understanding of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and deployment pipelines(Circle CI, Argo CD).
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, logging (e.g., DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to stay motivated in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Interest and/or experience in the rapidly evolving energy sector.
• Clear written and verbal communication for aligning vision, providing updates, and resolving conflicts.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and grow engineers across experience levels.
• Ability to partner with product managers, designers and stakeholders to define scope and priorities.
• Ability to keep the team aligned with long-term goals while managing current delivery and technical debt.
• Proactive in identifying issues, unblocking teams, and mitigating risks early.
• Commitment to bringing new approaches and ideas to the team with a consistently positive attitude.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable microservice architecture
• Demonstrable experience with writing unit and functional tests
• Application of industry security best practices to application and system development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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