Engineering Manager – Energy

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

📋 Description

• Co-manage an autonomous engineering team in partnership with a Product Manager

• Foster clarity, consistency, and momentum within the team

• Advocate for the team's interests to senior leadership

• Serve as a liaison between the team and business stakeholders

• Accept accountability for technical decisions and alignment with the company's technical strategy

• Identify and enhance engineering practices

• Set team objectives and lead prioritization efforts

• Implement practices to fulfill security and operational service level objectives (SLOs)

• Organize organization-wide on-call coverage

• Conduct regular reviews of metrics related to coverage and performance

• Establish OKRs in collaboration with the Product Manager and team

• Recognize and address risks and obstacles

• Assess and enhance team performance and delivery predictability

• Report progress regarding OKRs, KPIs, and milestones

• Co-facilitate annual and quarterly planning for the squad

• Staff the team with necessary technical expertise and recruit as required

• Onboard, train, develop, and mentor direct reports

• Engage in performance calibration and promotion evaluations

• Relay company, department, and pillar strategies to the team

• Provide business insights and context to stakeholders

• Cultivate a positive team culture and resolve interpersonal conflicts

• Inform the team about organizational changes

• Collaborate with UX, Data, and other cross-functional partners

• Ensure operational and capital expenditures align with budgetary constraints

⛳️ Requirements

• Familiarity with core technology stack: gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Experience with Go is preferred but not mandatory

• Proven experience leading technical design processes and facilitating discussions

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

• Ability to drive technical decisions toward clear, documented outcomes

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

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

• Strong grasp of engineering best practices

• Practical experience with AI development tools

• Experience in defining team objectives and leading prioritization

• Collaborative experience with Product Managers to establish OKRs aligned with company objectives

• Ability to co-facilitate annual and quarterly planning sessions

• Experience in early identification and mitigation of risks

• Proven track record of improving delivery predictability

• Knowledge of identifying security and SLO practices

• Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews

• Experience managing a team of engineers

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

• Experience participating in performance calibration and promotion evaluations

• Intermediate understanding of customer and market insights

• Skill in communicating strategy to the team

• Experience building deep domain knowledge beyond the standard processes

• Ability to recognize ambiguity or gaps in requirements and designs

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

• Proven ability to foster healthy team dynamics and resolve interpersonal conflicts

• Capability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues

• Successful candidates will undergo a background check

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary performance bonus ranging from 15-40%

• Remote-first flexible working environment

• Option for a four-day working week at 90% pay for 90% impact

• Opportunity to work abroad for up to three weeks, twice each tax year

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

• Option to exchange up to five holiday days each year

• Discounts on UW services and a complimentary Cashback Card

• Matched-contribution pension scheme

• Life assurance coverage up to 4x salary

• Family-friendly 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

• Opportunities to join belonging groups

• Company-wide celebrations and events