Senior Engineering Manager – Connector Engineering

Arcadia

  • Chennai, India
Senior Engineering Manager – Connector Engineering
Job Posted : Aug 8th, 2024

Job Description

We are seeking a thoughtful, empathetic, and driven Senior Engineering Manager to grow, organize, and coach 10-15 engineers responsible for building mission-critical products & services. The right candidate will deeply commit to championing team members — removing roadblocks, advocating for their needs, and enabling their personal/professional growth & development — while leading them to continuously navigate complex engineering problems, architect scalable solutions, and deliver significant software into production. If you’re equally excited to have an impact on game-changing software that is expanding renewable energy access to millions of households across the country, as well as the lives and careers of the people who build it, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities:-

  • Empower, guide, and maximize a team of mission-driven engineers to solve challenging problems in the energy industry.
  • Collaborate with Engineering leadership and cross-functional partners (including Product, Design, Marketing) to establish roadmaps and strategy that help serve and grow the business
  • Represent engineering-driven considerations to ensure all stakeholder groups are aligned on company priorities, expectations, and contingencies
  • Contribute to technical development and discussions as necessary to ensure the team is building technology that scales and meets the business needs
  • Provide both ongoing support and mentorship to direct reports, strategically aligning their skills, interests, and career aspirations with business needs; defining, streamlining, and guiding the projects they work on; and both initiating and inviting conversations around performance, development, and morale
  • Deliver results in the fast-paced environment of a growing startup while always treating team members and colleagues with empathy & humanity

Qualification and Experience:-

Must-haves:-

  • Overall 10+ of experience with 5+ years of team lead or engineering management experience
  • Proven track record of effectively developing direct reports through continual feedback and goal-setting, and growing them through the ranks of an engineering organization
  • Advanced understanding of modern software development practices and methodologies, and the ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute when necessary
  • Experience directly working on or managing teams working on production systems and high-volume applications
  • Experience successfully navigating the relationship between Engineering, Product, and Design teams
  • Experience collaboration, mentoring, learning from other engineers, and treating colleagues with empathy and respect
  • Ability to provide quick engineering solutions to business problems and deploying for future uses
  • Ability and internal drive to problem-solve, both creatively and pragmatically
  • Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver on project commitments
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Passion for our mission, sustainability, and drive a clean-energy future

Nice-to-haves:-

  • Experience with one or more of the programming languages we use:
    • Java
    • Javascript/Typescript
    • Python
  • Experience with one or more of the back-end frameworks and platforms that align with our stack:
    • Spring boot
    • Streamlit
    • Flask
    • NoSQL
  • Experience with one or more of the front-end frameworks that align with our stack:
    • React
    • Angular
  • Experience with infrastructure found in our stack:
    • Postgres or similar relational database
    • Docker and Kubernetes
    • AWS
  • Experience and comfort navigating both the technical and people scalability challenges faced at startups undergoing rapid growth & product adoption
  • Experience in automating internal processes to help internal operations
  • Ability to weigh budget, speed, and other variables in buy/build/borrow decisions
  • Experience establishing and executing roadmaps
  • Background in the energy space or related field is an advantage

Location:-

  • Chennai, India.

Company Overview:-

Arcadia is the technology company empowering energy innovators and consumers to fight the climate crisis. Our software and APIs are revolutionizing an industry held back by outdated systems and institutions by creating unprecedented access to the data and clean energy needed to make a decarbonized energy grid possible.

In 2014, Arcadia set out on its mission to break the fossil fuel monopoly and since then we have been knocking down the institutional barriers to unlock decarbonization. To date, we have connected hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses with high-quality clean energy options. Fast forward to today, and now, we’re thinking even bigger. We have launched Arc, an industry-defining SaaS platform that empowers developers and energy innovators to deliver their own custom, personalized energy experiences, accelerating the transformation of the industry from an analog energy system into a digitized information network.

Tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges requires out-of-the-box thinking & diverse perspectives. We’re building a team of individuals from different backgrounds, industries, & educational experiences. If you share our passion for ushering in the era of the clean electron, we look forward to learning what you would uniquely bring to Arcadia! Visit www.arcadia.com.

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