Engineering Manager

🌳 Infogrid began in 2018 on a mission to make buildings more sustainable, buildings account for 39% of global carbon emissions and we’re creating real solutions to impact this!

🚀 We have amazing products solving real world problems, come and join us in either the UK or US and help drive our mission forward.

Infogrid is looking for an experienced and talented engineering manager to join our Product Engineering team. You will be leading a high-calibre team of engineers, who are distributed around the UK, working on our innovative ClimateTech product that helps some of the largest companies in the world reduce their carbon emissions.

You will be joining us at a critical time, and we can offer a genuine opportunity to the right manager to help shape and grow the engineering team. As the leader of a product-aligned team, you will be working closely with colleagues in Product and Design to shape the future direction of the product as well as set the technical direction.

The one constant we have is change - we need to move fast and innovate. Infogrid is establishing a new market within commercial real estate - a sector ripe for disruption. We have installed over 200,000 IoT sensors in thousands of buildings. We manage the stream of data into our data platform, powered by Snowflake, so we can build machine learning models that power insights for our Sustainability and Smart Maintenance solutions. We use tools such as DBT, Dagster and Cube.dev to surface these insights via our app (built with Python, AWS Lambda + Node.js, and React/Typescript). We use AWS infrastructure, and cloud-native services, in a multi-region setup to serve our customers, primarily in the US and UK.

We have excellent teams and fantastic engineers. We're focused on outcomes and give our engineers the freedom to be creative. While we live in a world of high ambiguity, this can have a significant multiplier effect on engineering careers.

Key Responsibilities

Technical

Comfortable working with a range of technologies, the team regularly use JavaScript, Python, Node, and AWS services.

Some awareness of Data Engineering principles; while not a deep specialism for this role, some awareness of data platforms such as Snowflake, RedShift, Dagster could be beneficial.

Guide the design, development and ownership of effective software that meets the strategic goals of your team and the whole business.

Provide technical knowledge, insight and leadership to peers and colleagues.

Seek out new technologies, tools and methodologies to evolve our development approaches and processes.

Ensuring technical quality meets the needs for a fast, reliable, always-on service.

People

Line manage a team of engineers with varying skill sets and experience.

Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement and delivery.

Coach and mentor team members, further their professional development and create career progression opportunities.

Ability to communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way to different audiences

Delivery

Guide the technical delivery of a team, assisting team members when they become blocked.

Guide and encourage continuous improvement of your team’s delivery and development processes.

Identify potential areas of risk and take mitigating action.

Support the communication of product and technical strategy to stakeholders at all levels.

Skilled in dealing with multiple product and technical priorities with a focus on practical decision-making.

You might be right for the role if…

You are humble, curious and open-minded.

You are keen to learn from others and through experience.

You lead through teaching and coaching.

You aspire to create a culture of transparency, inclusivity and safe-to-fail.

You are happy working in an ambiguous environment, making decisions with imperfect data and iteratively experimenting towards good outcomes.

A can show a track record of growing engineers with a focus on mentoring, coaching and development.

You have experience in designing, writing and supporting robust, large-scale applications in fast-changing environments with rapid release cycles.

You have experience managing multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders in a complex, agile, matrix environment.

Demonstrable experience in driving process improvements with a team or engineering community.

Experience leading decision-making which balances tactical and strategic delivery

You are comfortable working in a full-stack environment and a range of technologies.

You have some working knowledge of JS, Typescript, Python AWS (e.g. Lambda, ECS), Terraform, which would be beneficial in terms of supporting your team members.

Additional Information

Come save the world with us!

❤️ Feel good about your work: Infogrid is actively helping big companies reduce their environmental footprint. We also offset everyone’s carbon footprint.

🤸 We’re flexible: We encourage remote working and offer flexible working hours to everyone.

🌍

We're passionate: everyone is passionate about the mission and how the work we do helps our planet

🫶

Work with great people: work alongside incredibly talented and supportive within a small but mighty workforce

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to your recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

See more