Engineering Manager

Job Description

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.

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 a meaningful impact on the progress of EnergyHub everywhere.

Our Dispatch team is responsible for the success of Demand Response (DR) events. Our goal is to have 100% accurate device control per defined response strategies for our clients. Reaching this goal entails ensuring the team is writing functional, resilient code that is reliable during grid emergencies as well as maintaining robust testing infrastructure to verify that safely.

Main Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Guide the team with clear direction, ensuring they have clear priorities and scope
• Provide strategic oversight, architectural direction and execution for new team initiatives, e.g. code refactoring and transition to micro-services environment
• Conduct code reviews across the team, with the ability to dive into working in the existing code base as needed
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering and Product, to define the team's mission, vision and roadmap
• 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
• 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 grow to dispatch at higher and higher volumes..
• 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
• Experience successfully launching multiple products or new features into the market

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].

In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.

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.

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.