Engineering Manager – Energy

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Utility Warehouse

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1996

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Logistics • Energy

Utility Warehouse is a UK-based company offering bundled services including energy, broadband, and mobile to maximize customer savings. They provide incentives such as up to 10% cashback on spending and offer coverage for termination fees up to £400 when switching from other providers. Utility Warehouse promotes a streamlined billing system with a single bill for multiple services, intending to offer competitive prices compared to major suppliers. The company emphasizes excellent customer service and has received multiple industry awards. Customers can choose from various services and enjoy significant savings through their cashback scheme.

📋 Description

• Co-lead an autonomous engineering squad alongside a Product Manager • Create clarity, consistency and momentum within the squad • Raise the team’s voice to senior leadership • Act as a bridge between the squad and business stakeholders • Take responsibility for technical decisions and alignment with company and technical strategy • Identify and improve engineering practices • Define team goals and drive prioritisation • Establish practices to meet security and operational SLOs • Coordinate organisation-wide on-call coverage • Lead regular metrics reviews for coverage and performance • Set OKRs with the Product Manager and team • Identify and mitigate risks and blockers • Measure and improve team performance and delivery predictability • Communicate progress against OKRs, KPIs and milestones • Co-lead annual and quarterly squad planning • Staff the squad with required technical skills and hire as needed • Onboard, train, develop and coach direct reports • Participate in performance calibration and promotion reviews • Communicate company, department and pillar strategy to the squad • Provide business insight and context to stakeholders • Foster a healthy team culture and resolve interpersonal conflicts • Communicate organisational changes to the squad • Collaborate with UX, Data and other cross-functional colleagues • Ensure team OpEx and CapEx expenditures align with budgets

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge of core technology stack: gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with Go preferred but not essential • Experience leading technical design processes and facilitating design discussions • Ability to represent the team in cross-functional technical conversations • Ability to drive technical decisions to clear, documented outcomes • Experience validating designs and architecture against real-world edge cases and domain variations • Ability to own technical decisions aligned with product and engineering strategy • Strong understanding of engineering best practices • Hands-on experience with AI development tools • Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation • Experience working with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals • Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning • Experience identifying and mitigating risks early • Experience improving delivery predictability • Experience identifying security and SLO practices • Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews • Experience managing a team of engineers • Proven ability to onboard, train, develop and coach reports • Experience participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews • Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights • Ability to communicate strategy to the squad • Experience building deep domain knowledge beyond the happy path • Ability to identify ambiguity or incompleteness in requirements and designs • Experience with complex, multi-variant domains such as billing, pricing, identity or claims • Experience fostering healthy team dynamics and resolving interpersonal conflicts • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional colleagues • Successful candidates are subject to a background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary performance bonus ranging from 15-40% • Remote-first flexible working • Optional four-day working week at 90% pay for 90% impact • Work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure • Option to trade up to five holiday days each year • Discounts on UW services and a free Cashback Card • Matched-contribution pension scheme • Life assurance up to 4x salary • Family-friendly policies • Flexible benefits allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership • Eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service • Dedicated learning and development budget • Bi-annual promotion cycles • Belonging groups • Company-wide celebrations and events