Engineering Manager

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

Job Description

Fluence Product Development organization is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead, inspire, unblock, and optimize the delivery of a development team. The candidate should have techno managerial experience, great people management skills and hands-on technical experience to help the team find process issues and remove bottlenecks to make development efforts more effective. The role demands creating and extending an application deployed on AWS and offered as SaaS.

Responsibilities: 

•Responsible for all technology components, architecture, solution design, defining standards for development, driving re-use and development of foundational components, drive innovation and associated Infrastructure design and implementation

•Drive decision on technology stack and all software components

•Design and implement for scalability, resilience and performance and other NFRs

•Responsible for working with the Program Manager and vendor partners in estimating, and defining the program delivery plan

•Work with the Product Team, UX designer, BA and PM and finalize the UI design

•Provide technical guidance to team members

•Practical experience in hiring, mentoring, developing engineers and helping team members to set career direction & growth.

•Encourage and empower the team to take ownership of the team’s success

•Enable the team to execute high-velocity software development, support their needs and resolve possible conflicts

•Solve technical challenges by deep diving into the technical details of the challenge along with engineers from the team.

•Define standards and guidelines for coding, code version control, branching, security and vulnerability scans

•Identify projects delivering risks and issues.  Provide options and justifications for mitigations.

•Support and enable continuous refinement of process, structure, and techniques to deliver high quality products.

•Participating in cross-team strategy discussions within the team

•Communicate with leadership regarding progress against plans, issues, and needs

•Work with users and/or product owners to help define application specifications

•Lead the team to follow organizational standards and engineering best practices

•Promote innovation and collaboration across teams.

Key Skills

•Excellent knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, microservices and other similar technologies

•Excellent knowledge of frontend and backend technologies – Nodejs, reactjs, nestjs, postgres, Java Spring boot, Python and other similar frameworks and technologies

•Experience of developing and managing AWS applications and offering as SaaS. 

•Experience in developing data visualizations involving large data from systems such as SCADA.

• Experience with Scrum/Kanban or similar Agile Software Project Management tools (i.e. Github Projects, Jira, Trello)

•Ability to identify detailed activities, plan them along with the PM

•Coordination with key stakeholders

•Ability to communicate effectively with the stakeholders – internal and external

•Ability to interact at various levels within the organization

•Ability to identify and mitigate risks and issues

Qualifications 

•13 – 18 years’ experience in leading design, development and implementation of industrial web applications.

•A bachelor’s or master’s engineering degree in computer science or in similar streams.

•Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies and distributed software systems

•Experience working with global development partners in a remote environment

•Excellent planning and time management skills with a record of accomplishment of following through on commitment

•Strong verbal and written communication skills

•Willingness to travel to project sites for development and gathering customer requirements

•Technical acumen to deep-dive into challenges and are able to lead technical discussions with technical team members and enable teams to solve problems.

•Experience with both on-premises and cloud-based solutions