Engineering Manager

About EnergyHub

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

About the Opportunity 

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, comfortable navigating ambiguity while moving projects forward,  and motivated to build programs and processes that foster greater team organization, efficiency and scalability across the organization. This person will focus on people management, strategic alignment and software development projects that have significant opportunities to shape the engineering operations at EnergyHub.

As the Engineering Manager for the Ground Control Team, you will be pivotal in creating and maintaining the service architecture, platform, and tools necessary for a scalable, reliable, observable, and performant microservices ecosystem.

Main Responsibilities: What you’ll do

• Accelerate the software development lifecycle of EnergyHub core services by creating and standardizing common design and development patterns and practices
• Invest in and unify how EnergyHub teams develop, deploy, and test core services.
• Participate in solution development and ensure the team delivers quality, well-tested code on time, in scope, with robust scalability.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product and TPMs, to define the team’s mission, vision and roadmap.
• Provide strategic oversight, architectural direction and execution for new team initiatives
• Thrive on building your team’s skills through coaching, mentoring and training opportunities.
• Continuously raise the bar for your team through organizational evolution, process improvement efforts and leveling your team’s technical prowess.
• Clear the way for architectural conversations and conclusions with teams while also providing the framework and process needed to effectively deploy software in an Agile environment.
• Conduct code reviews across the team and lead from the front when faced with development hurdles and incidents.
• Balance competing priorities, evaluating and managing impact, effort, and external commitments.

Required Skills and Experience: What you need

At EnergyHub we care about your passion and how you can contribute to our mission, not about the schools and companies on your resume.

This is not a list of requirements and we certainly don’t expect that you need to hit every bullet point to be a great candidate or great in the role. However, these things will catch our eye and demonstrate many of the core skills needed.

• 4+ years of experience directly managing teams of developers (ideally with larger or multiple teams including multiple staff engineers).
• Core technical knowledge and experience with some of the tools and technologies at EnergyHub with a focus on Java, Spring, AWS (EC2, ECS), Postgres, and MongoDB.
• Experience with other technologies such as Python and the Robot Framework to drive automation and micro-service efforts.
• Ability to learn from unsuccessful projects with appropriate corrections to improve process, resource, and coaching through iteration and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work well with ambiguity and competing priorities, managing relationships and understanding how to move forward technical initiatives in conjunction with product outcomes.
• Belief in a test first approach to coding.
• Experience successfully launching multiple products or new features into the market, with the observability and metrics to prove success or adjust the approach to achieve it.

Preferred Skills and Experience: Nice-to-haves

• Experience building client-facing APIs and supporting developers integrating with those APIs
• Strong integration background and an ability to ensure seamless enrollment of devices for our partners and guaranteeing their uptime 

Why work for EnergyHub?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other. 
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Gain well rounded experience: EnergyHub offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of  IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs. 
• Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.
• Focus on fun: EnergyHub places high value on our team culture. Happy hours and holiday parties are important to us, but what’s also important is how our employees feel every single day. 

Company Benefits

EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact [email protected].

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Notice To Third Party Agencies:

EnergyHub understands the value of professional recruiting services.  However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you.