About EnergyHub
EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.
About the Opportunity
As an Engineering Director you will be responsible for the development and performance of key parts of our applications – orchestrating the actions of millions of grid-edge devices (from smart thermostats to home batteries to electric vehicles to entire factories) to safeguard the grid and enable its decarbonization. You’ll bring your technical expertise and your empathetic leadership to make sure we do that job safely and correctly, and empower our clients to clearly understand and easily use our platform.
Your teams do things like:
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
What you will do:
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
Other duties as assigned
Why you want to do it:
It’s big. With millions of devices and gigawatts of power under management – you’ll be fighting climate change at scale.
Keeping it simple is hard. We’re adding new device types all the time, and leveraging more and more data to develop new strategies for grid stabilization
Reliability matters. Your teams’ systems control a non-trivial fraction of the North American power grid.
It’s fun. Work with smart, mission-driven people. Play with cool new green technology. Solve puzzles in org design, system design, usability and more.
It’s important. Climate change sucks. Our work enables decarbonization of the power grid.
Key Skills and Experience:
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
Preferred Skills and Experience:
Passion for the climate space and our mission to decarbonize and stabilize the grid
Experience with some of the technologies we use like:
Java and Springboot
RabbitMQ, SQS, gRPC
NoSQL, Redis
Postgresql and other relational databases
Snowflake, dbt or similar data modeling, transformation and warehouse solutions
Experience transitioning to a service-oriented architecture
Experience building APIs for external clients
IoT experience
Experience working in a compliant environment
Energy industry experience
Why work for EnergyHub?
Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other.
Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
Gain well rounded experience: EnergyHub offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs.
Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.
Focus on fun: EnergyHub places high value on our team culture. Happy hours and holiday parties are important to us, but what’s also important is how our employees feel every single day.
Company Information
EnergyHub is a growing enterprise software company that works with the most forward-thinking companies in smart energy. Our platform lets consumers turn their smart thermostats, electric cars, water heaters, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power. We work on technology that already provides energy and cost savings to millions of people through partnerships with the most innovative companies in the Internet of Things.
Company Benefits
EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer 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, and an education assistance program.
EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer
EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact accommodations.apply@energyhub.net.
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Notice To Third Party Agencies:
EnergyHub understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you.
Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range$200,000—$225,000 USD