About the opportunity
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, is comfortable navigating ambiguity while moving projects forward, and is motivated to build software and processes that foster greater team efficiency and scalability across the organization. This person will focus on people management, strategic alignment and software development projects that have a meaningful impact on EnergyHub’s product and people.
As Engineering Manager for the Program team, you will own a core part of our platform: how customer programs are configured, launched, tested, and maintained across a growing set of product offerings. You will help evolve a critical system that sits at the intersection of product, operations, and platform engineering. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing clarity to complex domains, improving internal tooling, and building systems that scale as the business grows. As we scale, you will champion technical excellence while balancing new feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and modernizing the user experience to empower client-facing teams.
Main Responsibilities: What you'll do
- Build, manage, and mentor a team of engineers working on shared platform capabilities.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering and Product, to define the team’s mission, vision, and roadmap
- Provide strategic oversight, architectural direction and execution for new team initiatives, such as building new UI workflows, code refactoring and transition to micro-services environment
- Act as a technical partner to Product, QA, Analytics, and client-facing teams.
- Translate cross-functional needs into clear technical plans and priorities.
- Communicate tradeoffs and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ensure the team delivers quality, scalable, well-tested, code on time and in scope.
- Continuously raise the bar for your team through organizational evolution, agile process improvement efforts and leveling your team’s technical prowess
- Thrive on building your direct report’s skills through coaching, mentoring and training opportunities
- Conduct code reviews across the team, with the ability to dive into working in the existing code base as needed
- Other duties as assigned
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.
- 2+ years of experience directly managing teams of developers (ideally with teams of 5-7+)
- Core technical knowledge and experience with some of the tools and technologies at EnergyHub with a focus on Java, Spring, AWS (EC2, ECS), MongoDB and PostGres
- Experience with other technologies such as Python and C#/.NET to drive automation and micro-service efforts
- Strong foundational understanding of computer science principles and SDLC best practices
- Experience with architecture, scalability, and reliability as we develop consumable API’s
- Ability to learn from challenging projects with appropriate corrections to improve process, resource, and coaching
- Ability to work well with ambiguity and in a dynamic work environment
- Belief in a test first approach to coding
- Other duties as assigned
Preferred Skills and Experience: Nice-to-haves
- Experience building client-facing APIs and supporting developers integrating with those APIs
- Experience improving internal tools and backing services used by operational or customer-facing teams.
- Familiarity with test automation
- Experience working closely with Product partners to help disambiguate and modernize legacy implementations
Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.
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.
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.
To learn more, visit energyhub.com.
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 accommodations.apply@energyhub.net.
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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.
