Director, Engineering

Summary

Join EnergyHub, a company empowering utilities and customers to build a clean energy future, as an Engineering Director. You will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for developing and maintaining key applications that manage millions of grid-edge devices. Your responsibilities include attracting, mentoring, and retaining engineering talent, advocating for best practices, collaborating with the Product team, and defining team objectives aligned with company goals. You will leverage your technical expertise to build interfaces, automations, and APIs to ensure grid safety and enable decarbonization. This role requires hands-on experience with large-scale systems, managing technical teams, and working in a microservices environment. EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees, a 401(k) with employer match, flexible scheduling, and more.

Requirements

• Hands on experience working with large complex systems, message queues, AWS (or other cloud platforms)
• Demonstrated success managing multiple technical teams
• Experience with a microservices environment
• A track record of building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Can read, write, and deploy code, even if you don’t do it as much lately
• Passionate about technology and innovation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with the Java ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Attract, mentor, lead & retain the multiple engineering managers and developers responsible for building and maintaining our system
• Be an advocate for observability, reliability, equity and safety in all we do
• Collaborate with the Product team to define our roadmap and surface growth opportunities
• Work across the entire Engineering team to establish best practices, help identify problems and implement solutions
• Define and build the team responsible for core applications in line with our overall company objectives
• Work with Product and others in engineering to model the foundations for feature requests that open us up to new revenue or optimized fulfillment
• Build interfaces to let humans understand and wield the platform effectively
• Build automations to protect the grid without human intervention
• Implement strategies to safeguard grid health
• Build APIs to integrate with external client systems and internal engineering partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for the climate space and our mission to decarbonize and stabilize the grid
• Experience with Springboot, RabbitMQ, SQS, gRPC, NoSQL, Redis
• Experience transitioning to a service-oriented architecture
• Experience building APIs for external clients
• IoT experience
• Experience working in a compliant environment
• Energy industry experience

Benefits

• 100% paid medical for employees
• A 401(k) with employer match
• A casual environment
• The flexibility to set your own schedule
• A fully stocked fridge and pantry
• Free Citi Bike membership
• Secure bike rack
• Gym subsidy
• Paid parental leave
• An education assistance program