Lead and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs across multiple teams, promoting a high-performance, collaborative culture.
Define the engineering vision and roadmap in alignment with company goals and product strategy.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence.
Drive hiring and talent development to build a strong, diverse engineering organization.
Architect and guide the implementation of a distributed, event-driven platform leveraging Python, FastAPI, and modern software delivery practices.
Ensure systems are robust, scalable, secure, and highly available, capable of supporting complex energy modeling and analytics.
Lead technical reviews, design sessions, and engineering planning to ensure architectural decisions align with business needs and long-term maintainability.
Establish and enforce software development best practices across SDLC, including coding standards, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Operations teams to align engineering efforts with customer outcomes and business impact.
Own delivery and execution across large, complex initiatives—balancing velocity, quality, and cost.
Define and track KPIs and SLAs to measure and continuously improve engineering performance and system reliability.
Advance CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and deployment automation to enable rapid, reliable releases.
Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and operational best practices across cloud-based infrastructure.
Support platform scalability and maintainability through disciplined technical debt management and modular architecture.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership roles, including managing engineering managers and cross-functional teams.
Proven success in leading the development of complex, cloud-native SaaS platforms.
Deep technical expertise in:
- **Python**, FastAPI, and modern asynchronous programming
- Distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Event-driven design and message queuing (e.g., RabbitMQ)
- Infrastructure-as-Code with **Terraform** or **OpenTofu**
- Scalable CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
Strong grasp of the full SDLC and Agile development methodologies.
Experience guiding teams through architectural decisions and hands-on problem solving.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFastAPIasynchronous programmingdistributed systemsmicroservices architectureevent-driven designmessage queuingTerraformOpenTofuCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationaccountabilitycommunicationstakeholder managementproblem solvingorganizational skillstechnical excellencetalent development