Engineering Manager – Energy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Co-lead an independent engineering team in collaboration with a Product Manager

• Foster clarity, consistency, and momentum within the team

• Advocate for the team’s perspective to senior leadership

• Serve as a liaison with stakeholders across the organization

• Take ownership of technical decisions and ensure alignment with company and technical strategy

• Identify opportunities for improvement in engineering practices

• Establish team objectives and manage prioritization

• Implement security and operational SLO practices

• Oversee organization-wide on-call availability

• Conduct regular reviews of metrics related to coverage and performance

• Collaborate with the Product Manager and team to set OKRs

• Recognize and address risks and obstacles

• Evaluate and enhance team performance

• Report progress on OKRs, KPIs, and milestones

• Co-lead the annual and quarterly planning processes

• Assemble the team with necessary technical expertise

• Facilitate onboarding, training, development, and coaching for engineers

• Engage in performance calibration and promotion assessments

• Communicate the company's, department's, and pillar's strategic goals

• Provide domain insights and context to stakeholders

• Promote a healthy team culture and address interpersonal conflicts

• Relay changes within the company and department

• Collaborate with UX and Data teams

• Ensure that team operational expenditures (OpEx) and capital expenditures (CapEx) stay within budget

⛳️ Requirements

• Familiarity (experience is advantageous) with gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Experience with Go is preferred but not mandatory

• Proven experience leading the technical design process and facilitating design discussions

• Capability to represent the team in cross-functional technical discussions

• Ability to drive technical decisions towards clear, well-documented outcomes

• Experience in validating designs and architecture against real-world edge cases and domain variations

• Ownership of technical decisions that align with product and engineering strategy

• Strong grasp of engineering best practices

• Practical experience with AI development tools

• Experience in establishing team goals and managing prioritization

• Skill in creating clarity amidst competing priorities, technical options, or complex legacy system migrations

• Ability to set OKRs with Product Managers and co-lead annual and quarterly planning

• Experience in identifying and mitigating risks proactively

• Proven track record of enhancing delivery predictability

• Familiarity with practices for security and SLOs

• Ability to promote operational excellence and lead metrics reviews

• Experience managing a team of engineers

• Demonstrated ability to onboard, train, develop, and mentor team members

• Experience in participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews

• Intermediate understanding of customer and market insights

• Ability to communicate strategy effectively to the team

• Experience in building deep domain knowledge beyond straightforward scenarios

• Capability to challenge unclear or incomplete requirements or designs

• Experience working within complex, multi-variant domains such as billing, pricing, identity, or claims

• Proven ability to foster a positive team dynamic and resolve interpersonal conflicts

• Ability to collaborate efficiently with cross-functional colleagues

• Successful candidates will undergo a background check

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%

• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization

• Optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact)

• Work remotely from anywhere abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year

• 25 days of vacation plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure

• Option to exchange up to five vacation days each year

• UW discounts on services and a complimentary Cashback Card

• Matched-contribution pension scheme

• Life assurance coverage up to 4x salary

• Family-first policies

• Flexible benefits allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership

• Eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service

• Dedicated budget for learning and development

• Bi-annual promotion cycles

• Belonging groups

• Company-wide celebrations and awards