Key skills
ReactPythonPostgres DBGCPPassion for learningLeadershipCommunicationMentoringCollaborationTypeScriptFastAPIK8sCloud RunPostgresGrafana
About this role
Overstory is a company dedicated to tackling the climate crisis through innovative technology aimed at creating a resilient electrical grid. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple product teams, managing engineers and ensuring high-quality technical delivery while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
Responsibilities:
- Enable our web engineering 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
Requirements:
- 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
- Ability to unblock your team by contributing to the code base at a senior engineering level. How hands-on you'll be in this role will depend on team size and maturity
- 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/ EST time zone
- Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential