Engineering Manager

The role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across several product teams managing up to 10 engineers (including Tech Leads). This role will support our vegetation management experience and data ingestion domains.

Our product teams are cross functional and will typically include: product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts relating to the teams domain.

You will be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of your area. You will challenge your teams to achieve ambition goals whilst providing a high level of support through growing engineering talent and creating a highly collaborative team based environment where people can do great work.

Your primary focus will be on creating high performing teams and driving results through others. You will not be expected to spend significant amounts of time doing hands-on coding, however, you will be expected to dive deep technically when required and leverage your extensive experience as an engineer to drive good technical decisions and solutions.

What you will do 

• Enable our Vegetation Management Experience and Data Ingestion teams to become highly productive cross-functional teams that ship a high quality product on a daily basis. 
• Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network. 
• Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work. 
• Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations. 
• Be a strategic partner to product managers within your domains and ensure that we are making the correct technical decisions that balance short and long term goals.
• Ensure suitability of the architecture within your domains to enable longer term product goals
• Work closely with the other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people. Including improving our engineering practices and introducing capabilities that can accelerate delivery or unlock new product opportunities. 

About You  

• Passionate about climate
• Experience working in a high growth scaleup environment
• Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
• At least 2 years experience leading and managing engineers across multiple teams
• Experience working with the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines)
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
• You are based in GMT/ CET time zone. 

Nice to haves

• Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential. 

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply. 

What you get 

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team 

We are a group of 62 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.