Engineering Manager, Zenobē
Up to 20% annual bonus
Battery storage operator
Open for applications
Battery storage operator
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Up to 20% annual bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make clean power accessible across the world.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a hands-on leader with a passion for technology, a deep understanding of Agile/Lean methodologies, and a proven track record of managing fully remote teams
- Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world
- Must have hands-on experience as a Software Engineer in a cross-functional team
- Must have experience using Agile/Lean techniques
- Must have experience as a manager of Software Engineers
- Must have experience across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Must have experience managing fully remote teams
- Must have experience with some of the following: AWS, Python, Node.js, Typescript, JavaScript, Streaming Architectures, Data Lakes
- Should have experience with CDK, Terraform, or other IAC tooling
- Should be familiar with Git, Slack, MS Office
- Should have experience with TDD, DevSecOps, and ADRs
- Could have familiarity with Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our Engineering teams
- As a key player in our mission, you'll be responsible for building high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, and ensuring the delivery of impactful, customer-focused solutions
- Accountable for building high-performing teams with the right number of people, skills, experience, and tools to succeed
- Ensure the teams have processes that enable sustainable delivery of business impact
- Partner with product on prioritization, planning, and creating end-to-end transparency
- Create alignment by setting clear goals, expectations, constraints, and key metrics at the right altitude, holding the team accountable for progress against them
- Help your team grow through feedback, learning, coaching, mentoring, experience, and failure
- Implement and promote diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Champion a culture where cross-functional teams work with agility to delight their customers
- Create a high trust environment of psychological safety where all staff are included and heard
- Create an environment where views are shared, considered, decisions are made, and conflicts are resolved effectively
- Hold team members accountable to actions that uphold values and support our engineering community (Pioneering & Agile, Dependable, Collaborative)
- Proactively share information to ensure stakeholders are informed and aligned
- Create a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation focused on problems that add customer value
- Build a great leadership team by helping, supporting, and challenging
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Ensure that technical discovery takes place and champion reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security
- Ensure that decisions we make align with our technology principles
- Provide high-quality feedback on designs, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions
- Help teams understand the trade-offs we are making and why
- Ensure teams are effectively managing and reducing technical debt
- Encourage ways to simplify systems
- Champion industry best practices such as TDD, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and ADRs
- Stay abreast of and integrate emerging technologies and industry trends
- Ensure teams have suitable agile processes that enable transparency, continuous improvement, and the ability to predict when work will be delivered
- Ensure teams have the right feedback loops in place to get feedback from each other and their stakeholders
- Ensure team understand key performance indicators (KPIs) and use them to measure success
- Ensure teams can make data-informed decisions in a collaborative manner, can A/B test hypotheses, and can also disagree and commit when required
- Resolve blockers, dependencies, and risks to ensure successful delivery
- Have an impact through influence, strategic planning, problem-solving, and effective decision-making
- Enable teams to learn from their mistakes and share the learnings to drive better business outcomes
- Ensure teams and staff understand what they are responsible for and how their products deliver value to our customers and the business
- Help teams understand changes in the business and market and how it impacts them
- Reduce friction for teams through suitable processes, reduction in dependencies, and automation
- Build healthy partnerships with stakeholders and teams with whom your teams have long-lived relationships
- Ensure teams and staff are empowered to make decisions quickly
- Actively contribute to Zenobe's commitment to health and safety, wellbeing and sustainability by; integrating these principles into daily responsibilities, ensuring a safe and supportive work environment, promoting both the physical and mental health of self and colleagues, and adopting sustainable and energy-efficient practices to minimize environmental impact. By doing so, each employee at Zenobe plays a vital role in fostering a culture that prioritises overall safety, holistic wellbeing, environmental sustainability in our business operations
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Working towards building a net-zero society, Zenobē Energy owns and operates stationary battery storage assets. Its circular battery economy model is transforming the way businesses use power in order to reduce costs and carbon emission, protecting the environment.
The company, whilst a market leader in battery storage, has also become central in the electric vehicle fleet market, with an estimated 25% market share of the UK operational EV bus sector. Working with bus operators including National Express and Stagecoach, Zenobē is aiding the rapid uptake of EV buses, thereby ensuring that legally binding climate change targets are being met.
Previous funding rounds enabled the acceleration of the UK’s transition to a green road transport system. In 2024, Zenobē secured debt funding from Natwest, Siemens Financial, and Rabobank among others to support its ambitious decarbonisation projects in Scotland.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2023
$1.1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$3.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- 20% annual bonus for being awesome
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance, for you and the family
- £1500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
- EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Pension scheme
- Plus more
Company values
- Pioneering and Agile - We're here to accelerate net zero, with distinct solutions for the energy and transport sectors and numerous 'firsts' and sector-leading partnerships
- Dependable - We solve problems for our customers and build solutions that are both effective and efficient. We speak clearly, avoid fluff and help businesses understand the changes they need to make and how results can be optimised
- Collaborative - Partnership is key to achieving our common environmental goals and building a strong work culture. We're technology agnostic, strategic in our partnerships, and open and honest in our ways of working
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
James Basden
(Founding Director)Previously served as a Partner of Global Head of Utilities & Infrastructure for Oliver Wyman, Founding Director for Corven, Non Executive Chairman for Caterham Cars, CEO for Lotus Cars Europe, and as a Managing Associate for CSC Index.
Nicholas Beatty
(Founding Director)Previously founded Oceansports Ltd. Experience as a Senior Advisor for Oliver Wyman and Corven, Head of Corporate Finance for BNP Paribas and Director of Corporate Finance for Hambros Bank.
Steven Meersman
(Founding Director)Previous experience as a Project Manager for Oliver Wyman, Global Head of Deals Desk of Puma Energy for Trafigura, Business Development and Technical Analyst for AES Energy Storage, and as Marketing and Technical Director for J Technics.
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