Software Engineering Manager (delivery Focus)

Software Engineering Manager (Delivery Focus)

Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It's a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy. We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 50k customers). We have also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK. Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and E.ON Next. We are scaling rapidly and you'd be joining a 175-person team committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture as we transform a major industry. Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $19/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2025, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

At Amber you'll be able to apply your people and systems thinking 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:

• Product, design and technical strategy
• Discussions around the product roadmap at a team and cross team level
• Continuous improvement of our delivery system across the product group
• 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 (i.e., onboarding, perf review structures, etc.)

Requirements

• At least two years of engineering management experience with a delivery focus, OR four years at a delivery/teams lead level, with a strong interest in people/delivery
• 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 start-ups
• 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 a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
• You'd be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 175 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
• Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
• Enjoy a lively, collaborative workspace at our buzzing Melbourne CBD headquarters in the heart of the city
• Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements.
• Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
• An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support.
• Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
• Additional PTO between Xmas & New Year

The salary range is between $200,000 and $235,000 base per annum and is quoted excluding superannuation. All full time roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.

This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia. We are also open to you working 4 days a week, if that's what you are looking for. We do have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home. For those based in Sydney, catch up in a co-working space every now and then, and rest of the locations in Australia work from home. We expect to remain Melbourne based but maintain flexibility between the office and WFH.

If this role sparks something in you, we'd genuinely love to hear from you. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often rule themselves out unless they tick every single box - so consider this your nudge. Even if you don't meet every requirement listed above, please still apply. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences - that's what makes great teams. We're committed to an inclusive workplace and never discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

Our hiring process will generally be as follows:

• A screening interview with the hiring manager
• A skills/culture interview with the hiring manager and the Staff Engineer on the team
• A take home case study
• A follow up skills based interview reflecting on the case study with the hiring manager and Director of Engineering / one of the Engineering Managers

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.