Are you an experienced software engineer looking to expand your impact by leading a team? Worried about making the jump to management because you don’t want to lose your technical edge? At Opower, our Engineering Managers are engineers first and managers second. You’ll continue to flex your dev muscles implementing features while developing new leadership skills as you direct the team and future of a product. What does Opower do? We’re applying cutting edge computer science to one of humanity’s greatest challenges: Energy. Our utility customers around the world give us energy usage data for tens of millions of their customers which we then analyze and aggregate using the latest software technologies to motivate consumers to use less energy. We use the right tools for each element of our broad solution set so our engineers get exposure to everything from Java Spring to Ruby on Rails, from Hadoop to MySQL, from massive batch processes to rich web apps.
Responsibilities
Lead a team in delivery of a product. Typically, our Engineering Managers are the first and last stop for their product so you’ll have unparalleled responsibility and opportunity for impact.
Continue to write great software. We believe the only way to be a great Engineering Manager is to continue to be a great Engineer. You won’t be writing code full time but you will implement your own features and be in the code on everything your team produces.
Be strategic. Become a member of the Engineering Management Team making and implementing strategic decisions as we continue Opower’s fantastic growth and success.
About You
You’ve got scars. Your 5+ years of experience as a software engineer have taught you valuable lessons that you will apply and teach to others.
You’re an expert. All our senior Engineers, including the managers, are experts in multiple technologies. Your expertise will need to overlap with our technology stack at least partially (Java, Spring, Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Hadoop and more).
You want to own it. You embrace the challenges inherent in being fully responsible for an important part of Opower’s business.
You live the process. Let’s face it, delivering software in teams is hard. You know that you can’t be successful without bringing order to chaos. Scrum, issue tracking, source code management, continuous integration are all second nature to you. And, you know that too much can be worse than too little.
You’re agile (and not just in the buzzword sense). You know how to succeed in a fast paced, ever changing environment and wouldn’t have it any other way.
You have strong computer science fundamentals. Our large data sets and low latency solutions require deep background in computer science. BS or MS in computer science is preferred but if you’ve acquired the chops in some other way then come show us.
