Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance feedback to foster a high-performing and collaborative environment, including understanding leadership nuances, contributing to job descriptions, hiring plans, and participating in reviews and performance management actions.
Guide and oversee the development of user-facing experiences and robust backend services and APIs that power these experiences.
Collaborate closely with product, design, program management and other cross-functional teams to align technical execution with strategic product roadmaps.
Manage the team's work across our technology stack, including Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS/GCP services (CDK, ECS/EKS, Redshift, S3, Pub/Sub, etc.), TypeScript, React, Prefect, Git, and Jira.
Facilitate the team's participation in agile development processes, including stand-up meetings, retrospectives, and one-on-ones, and make routine decisions easily while starting to handle more ambiguous choices.
Handle resource allocation, project prioritization, hiring, and onboarding to build and maintain a talented software engineering team, familiar with company policies like anti-harassment and employee review cycles.
Stay abreast of industry trends in software engineering and cloud technologies, championing continuous improvement and innovation within the team, gaining industry-wide knowledge and applying it to refine processes.

Requirements

8+ years of industry experience in software engineering or related fields, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or management role overseeing technical teams (BS and 6-12 years of work experience preferred; MS counts as 1 year of experience).
Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience in the software industry.
Proven track record as a self-starter who identifies strategic opportunities, drives initiatives, and empowers teams to implement solutions that enhance operational excellence, capable of dealing with moderately complex area issues.
Hands-on experience in building and managing scalable systems in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP), containerization (ECS/EKS), serverless technologies, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CDK).
Comfort balancing leadership and technical execution — willing to engage directly in design and implementation work while effectively managing, mentoring, and enabling the team.
Solid software engineering skills with strong proficiency in our core stack—specifically Python, SQL, and some familiarity TypeScript/React —along with the ability to design to spec and deliver full-featured products.
Excellent leadership and communication skills, with experience in mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, providing guidance on software engineering best practices, motivating teams, and presenting to larger groups as part of a team.
Commitment to fostering a culture of continuous learning, keeping the team updated on new software technologies and tooling, while understanding your own leadership style and leveraging it to develop and manage the team.
Ability to make decisions with incomplete data and understand when it's important to act without a clear choice, while being comfortable with ambiguous situations.
Bonuses:
Experience in the electric power industry, IoT, or climate-tech sectors.
Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.

Benefits

Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLAWSGCPTypeScriptReactSQLInfrastructure as CodeContainerization

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationmentoringcollaborationdecision-makingproblem-solvingteam motivationstrategic thinkingperformance managementcontinuous learning

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in computer scienceMaster's degree in computer science