Engineering Manager Applications

The Customer Insights team is looking for an experienced engineering manager to bring leadership to a small team. The team consists of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers who build products that allow our customers to better understand their energy data. You will partner with other engineering and product teams, encouraging an inclusive and cohesive team environment while building an environment that enables engineers to create and deliver beautiful, performant applications.

The Customer Insights team builds interfaces and services that allow humans to interact with the Voltus platform. Currently the team is focused on rapidly developing and iterating on tooling that allows customers to flexibly access and analyze their energy data.

Voltus is a fully distributed company and this job is remote. You have the flexibility to work from anywhere, but you must overlap with the Eastern Time zone for at least 4 hours of the workday (9am-5pm).

• You prefer to build thoughtful, well-designed systems that are scalable and performant. You can navigate the tradeoffs of delivering value, hitting deadlines, and building for the future.
• You enjoy working with cross-functional groups and can coordinate with many kinds of stakeholders.
• You have empathy for your team members and those who rely on your work. You value critical feedback and personal growth. You are genuinely interested in growing individuals beyond what they thought was possible in a sustainable manner. You enjoy mentoring others and are comfortable receiving and giving kind, candid feedback.
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills. You can build and improve teamwork processes. You are comfortable working iteratively on internal processes.
• You have good judgment and can adapt to new situations. You can persist through ambiguity and reach a solution. 
• You have experience leading engineering teams remotely.
• You have experience with a high-growth engineering environment.
• You are interested in the energy space and are excited to learn more.

• Lead by example, care for the team, develop a supportive culture and promote work/life balance.
• Use your expertise in software engineering to ensure high-quality software is delivered incrementally.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to team members.
• Help/Guide individuals in setting clear goals and provide regular feedback on performance to foster career growth.
• Support developing technical vision for product areas.
• Coordinate project staffing and prioritization with Product Managers.
• Improve overall engineering quality through documentation, technical guidance and mentoring, and establishing and upholding best practices for the team.
• Give feedback on technical specs and review and approve code as needed.
• Implement new tools and practices, and improve existing tools and practices, that make the team more effective.

• Javascript, Python, Go
• React, Flask, Goa
• AWS, Docker, Nomad
• Postgres, Kafka, Redis, S3

About Us

Our mission is to be the Distributed Energy Platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition. The Voltus platform connects any distributed energy resource (DER) to any energy market across the US and Canada, providing flexibility, reliability, and resilience to the grid while generating revenue for our partners. By partnering with industry leaders and the DER ecosystem, we are building the decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system of the future.

Voltus is a remote and virtual company, distributed across US, Canada, and abroad with many team members in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and other cities.

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive compensation package, Voltus offers a range of benefits including: unlimited leave for full-time employees, parental leave, and a comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security.

At Voltus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer because we recognize that a diverse organization begins with a diverse candidate pool. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or marital status.

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