Software Engineering Manager

at  Amber Electric

• About Amber
  Amber is a new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 30 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
  We are growing rapidly and have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving Australia towards a renewable future. We are backed by Australia’s leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital and Main Sequence Ventures), impact-focused investors and individuals, and most recently by Commonwealth Bank and NRMA.
  We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale as we disrupt a huge market for the better. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 90, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
  \uD83D\uDCBB About the role
  At Amber you’ll be able to apply your people and technical skills to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in customer households, enabling them to shift their electricity consumption to times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting people outbid coal and gas generators and earn potentially >$100 in an afternoon.

The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:

• Home automation integrations (batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
• Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage.
• A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing
• The marketing site and associated tools to drive customer growth

We have a fantastic engineering team at Amber full of generous, kind, intelligent, and motivated people and your job will be to coach, grow, and support them.

You will be a frequent contributor to:

• high level technical strategy
• discussions around the product roadmap
• hiring, on-boarding, and ongoing learning processes
• performance management and review processes
• team and culture building activities

We’re committed to maintaining and growing a diverse and inclusive workplace and expect any candidate to be aligned with that purpose and capable of supporting it.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least two years of engineering management experience, OR four years at a tech/team lead level, with a strong interest in people.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans.
• Enough technical grounding to participate in problem solving and design discussions at all levels of the organisation.

• Build a balanced and high performing team, through recruiting from a wide range of backgrounds, experience levels, etc
• Grow the individual capabilities of team members through continuous professional development, training, and performance reviews
• Cultivate a highly collaborative environment and foster psychological safety
• Contribute to technical and product strategy, especially where they touch on the capabilities (or gaps) of your team
• Contribute to scalable and repeatable team processes and documentation (ie onboarding, perf review structures, etc)