Software Engineering Manager, Amber Electric

• At least two years of engineering management experience, OR four years at a tech/team lead level, with a strong interest in people
• Strong verbal and written communications skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans
• Enough technical grounding to participate in problem solving and design discussions at all levels of the organisation
• Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status

Desirable

• At Amber you’ll be able to apply your people and technical skills to help enable the uptake of renewable energy
• Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in customer households, enabling them to shift their electricity consumption to times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting people outbid energy generators and earn potentially >£50 in an afternoon
• The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:
• Home automation integrations (to batteries and EVs) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
• Mobile apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
• Web app and APIs for clients to manage customer account lifecycles, support, and insights
• We have a fantastic engineering team at Amber full of generous, kind, intelligent, and motivated people and your job will be to coach, grow, and support them
• You will be a frequent contributor to:
• High level technical strategy
• Discussions around the delivery roadmap for clients
• Hiring, on-boarding, and ongoing learning processes
• Performance management and review processes
• Team and culture building activities
• We’re committed to maintaining and growing a diverse and inclusive workplace and expect any candidate to be aligned with that purpose and capable of supporting it
• Build a balanced and high performing team, through recruiting from a wide range of backgrounds, experience levels, etc
• Grow the individual capabilities of team members through continuous professional development, training, and performance reviews
• Cultivate a highly collaborative environment and foster psychological safety
• Contribute to technical and product strategy, especially where they touch on the capabilities (or gaps) of your team
• Contribute to scalable and repeatable team processes and documentation (ie onboarding, perf review structures, etc.)

• A screening call with our talent team
• A take home case study
• A follow up skills based interview reflecting on the case study with local engineering leadership
• A cultural interview with Engineering Managers from our Australian team
• A final chat with the Director of Engineering