(Only 24h Left) Software Engineering Manager

About Amber

Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy – where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition. Everything we build is about making that possible and putting traditional retailers in the shade.

We believe the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries and EVs. Customers get direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest.

We are backed by Australia’s leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital, Main Sequence Ventures, Rubio Impact Ventures, and Breakthrough Victoria), impact-focused investors and individuals, and most recently by Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack and ETF Partners (UK/Europe based).

We are growing rapidly and have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving Australia and the world towards a renewable future.

We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale as we disrupt a huge market for the better. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 140, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.

Amber for Batteries unlocks more value for homeowners with batteries, driving down their energy bills and their payback periods. By storing energy when it’s cheap and exporting it to the grid for wholesale feed-in rates of up to $19/kWh, Amber’s software is completely changing the economics of home batteries and accelerating the energy transition.

Amber for EVs is our EV smart charging solution that helps EV owners save on their charging costs by using more cheap, renewable energy - whether that’s their own excess solar energy, or renewable energy that’s abundant in the grid. In 2025, we are kicking off development of our game-changing vehicle-to-grid technology.

About the role

At Amber you’ll be able to apply your people and technical skills to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in customer households, enabling them to shift their electricity consumption to times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting people outbid coal and gas generators and earn potentially >$100 in an afternoon.

The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:

- Home automation integrations (batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability

- Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage

- A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing

- The marketing site and associated tools to drive customer growth

We have a fantastic engineering team at Amber full of generous, kind, intelligent, and motivated people and your job will be to coach, grow, and support them.

You will be a frequent contributor to:

- high level technical strategy

- discussions around the product roadmap

- hiring, on-boarding, and ongoing learning processes

- performance management and review processes

- team and culture building activities

We’re committed to maintaining and growing a diverse and inclusive workplace and expect any candidate to be aligned with that purpose and capable of supporting it.

Responsibilities

- Build a balanced and high performing team, through recruiting from a wide range of backgrounds, experience levels, etc
- Grow the individual capabilities of team members through continuous professional development, training, and performance reviews
- Cultivate a highly collaborative environment and foster psychological safety
- Contribute to technical and product strategy, especially where they touch on the capabilities (or gaps) of your team
- Contribute to scalable and repeatable team processes and documentation (ie onboarding, perf review structures, etc.)

Requirements

- At least two years of engineering management experience, OR four years at a tech/team lead level, with a strong interest in people
- Strong verbal and written communications skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans
- Enough technical grounding to participate in problem solving and design discussions at all levels of the organisation

Nice to haves

- Leadership experience in similar scale/trajectory businesses - Series B/C VC funded startups
- Relevant domain experience from the energy or IoT sectors (or both)
- Experience working close to the customer on product delivery teams

Benefits

- We’re committed to building adiverse and inclusive workplaceand agreat cultureof people who love coming to work to build a better world. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 140 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
- Be part of agrowing technology start-upthat will shape the future of renewable energy in AU
- Flexible working hourswith provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD
- Weoffset 100% of your carbon footprintfor as long as you work with us (via Nul)
- Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies
- Anexternal Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)for mental health support
- Competitive salary and shares in Amber
- Annual Learning & Development budgetto support your personal growth.

$200,000 - $235,000 a year
Range is quoted excluding superannuation. All roles at Amber include employee stock options.

This is afull-time roleto bebased ideally from Melbourne, but we are alsoopen to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.

We are alsoopen to you working 4 days a week, if that's what you are looking for. We do have anoffice in the Melbourne CBD, where wework flexibly between the office and home. Forthose based in Sydney, catch up in a co-working spaceevery now and then, andrest of the locations in Australia work from home. We expect to remain Melbourne based but maintain flexibility between the office and WFH.

If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Our hiring process will generally be as follows:

- Ascreeningcallwithourtalentteam

- Atakehomecasestudy

- A follow up skills based interview reflecting on the case study with the Director of Engineering and one other engineering team member

- Aculturalinterviewwithanengineeringanda productteammember

- AfinalchatwiththeCTOandanexecutiveteammember

We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.

Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.

No recruitment agencies please. We've got this Thank you.

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