Engineering Manager, tem
£100.5k
Plus equity
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
Open for applications
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£100.5k
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Rebuilding the energy transaction system, making it transparent and fair.
Role
Who you are
- Proven engineering leadership: Experience leading teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You know how to build teams, manage performance, and lead through change
- Strong delivery mindset: Comfortable owning delivery outcomes in environments without a traditional delivery function. You bring clarity to ambiguity and help teams move forward without over-process
- Technically credible: You bring a strong technical background and understand what “good” looks like - even if you’re no longer hands-on day to day
- Remote-first leader: You’ve led distributed teams successfully and know how to balance autonomy with alignment in an async-first culture
- Collaborative and mission-driven: You care deeply about why the work matters, and you help your team stay focused on impact - not just output
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to create the conditions for high performance across our Engineering team
- You’ll shape how we operate, bringing clarity, alignment, and energy to our people, our ways of working, and our partnership with Product
- This role is focused on people leadership, delivery support, and team performance
- You won’t be owning architectural decisions - that’s the job of our Experts - but you’ll help technical leaders make great decisions, drive execution across teams, and build a strong, scalable culture
- You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and Operations to ensure Engineering stays aligned and impactful as we grow
- In your first 12 months, success looks like this: you’ve built trust across the team, improved delivery confidence and pace, supported team members to grow in their roles, and helped us scale our ways of working without adding unnecessary complexity
- Build and grow high-performing teams: Lead hiring, onboarding, performance, and progression - creating a team environment where engineers feel supported, challenged, and set up to succeed
- Drive delivery through clarity and alignment: Help teams prioritise, stay focused, and move quickly. You’ll create structure without over-engineering, ensuring teams know what matters and how to execute on it
- Support technical direction: Partner with Experts and technical leads to guide decision-making, uphold quality, and drive continuous improvement, without stepping on their autonomy
- Create strong cross-functional connections: Act as a bridge between Engineering and the wider business, ensuring teams stay aligned with Product, Design, and Operations, and focused on delivering value
- Champion a remote-native culture: Lead with empathy and intention in a fully remote environment, fostering trust, autonomy, and a sense of shared mission, even without regular face time
Application process
- 1. First call with our Talent Team (30 Mins). This is to understand your experience, motivations, and discuss the role in more detail
- 2. Behaviour Interview with our CTO (60 Mins). This is your chance to really understand the role, the expectations, and ensure alignment on ways of working
- 3. Skills Interview with the Team (75 Mins). You’ll meet with potential peers in this session and will discuss how you lead and manage high performing teams, and discuss a range of scenarios
- 4. Culture-Add Interview with Stakeholders (45 Mins). The final session will be with two cross-functional stakeholders, and will explore how your values align with ours, and is designed to be a genuine two-way conversation - your chance to understand what it’s really like to work at tem
Our take
tem is a next-gen energy transactions company that changes the way renewable energy is bought, sold and powered. Rebalancing the playing field away from "Big Energy", tem creates affordable, traceable and smart energy transaction management tools.
The company provides businesses and consumers with access to the same financial benefits as Big Energy companies by distributing its own purchased energy to customers. Once they’re signed up, customers are matched with a suitable generator, and the tem platform helps execute contracts, take payments, and manage invoicing.
This is a truly disruptive concept, and is proving to be a successful one. tem currently processes over £50 million in direct transactions and saves millions for over 1000 UK businesses wanting to switch from traditional utilities tied to the wholesale market. Whilst UK consumers are notoriously hesitant to switch providers, recent soaring energy prices is luring many into giving it a go.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The projects I have worked on at tem. have involved solving greenfield problems. Each project has challenged me in a different way keeping the work..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$14.3m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$3.4m
SEED
Total funding: $17.9m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Day off on your birthday
- Fully remote - expect quarterly meet ups with your team
- Personal office budget £1200 / 1400€ per year
- Paid for company trip twice a year. Previous locations included Barcelona, Budapest and Marrakech.
- Wellbeing allowance of £150 / 170 € per month to spend on your wellbeing
- A generous options (stock) package
- Salary benchmarking twice a year. We aim to pay at the upper percentile (75th percentile) of the market, using London-based benchmarks. One of our core pay principles is “Same work. Same base pay.” This means we use spot rates instead of broad salary bands: everyone doing the same role at the same level earns the same base salary.
Company values
- Innovate with purpose
- Go all-in
- Keep it real
Company HQ
Nine Elms, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Joe McDonald
(Co-Founder & CEO)Resident CEO, Joe leads the creative vision behind tem. the brand, product and its platform. He is a passionate visionary who loves to climb mountains and has the most adorable dog.
Jason Stocks
(Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)Jason is a world-class commercial leader with proven track scaling up high performing diverse teams. He is also a power house of high energy, high enthusiasm and a secret scuba diver instructor.
Bartlomiej Szostek
(Co-Founder & CTO)Bartek is an innovative programmer, with a craving for maximum performance, clean code and good architecture. He has a very cute baby girl who loves to join in on our calls - we’re training her young!
Ross Mackay
(Co-Founder)Data scientist, software engineer + physics whizz - Ross currently lives in the west country and will beat you hands down in a game of monopoly deal.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at tem
Charlie Stephenson (Head of People)
- Tem is all about championing small business communities, fighting for transparency and advocating for fairness in the broken energy sector. We put these principles at the heart of our business model and work hard to ensure our platform is accessible and simple for all.
- We're fully remote to ensure everyone can thrive in an environment that works best for them. Whether you prefer working from home in a Disney onesie or going to a bustling cafe, we support whatever helps you be your most effective self. Being fully remote also means we're lucky enough to hire team members from different countries and cultures and we spend time every Monday having a social call to share what makes us tick.
- We care about you and live our value of keeping it real. This means actively seeking your feedback through quarterly pulse surveys and implementing initiatives that truly matter to you. Anyone who joins us has a voice and one that is heard and valued.
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