Engineering Manager

Position Summary

In this newly-created position, you will lead software projects that support U.S. households as they transition to electric energy for their heating, cooling, cooking, cleaning, transportation and more. As an Engineering Manager, you will principally be responsible for managing 4-6 Software Engineers and working with the wider Product and Data Science teams to create and extend our websites and consumer-facing software tools. You’ll play a pivotal role in defining and creating the products, tools, and processes that allow us to make electrification projects preferable, affordable, and accessible for households nationwide. This position reports to Rewiring America’s VP of Engineering.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

You’ll create and maintain consumer-facing apps to reduce the friction involved in going electric. This could include educational materials, tools to connect with contractors or plan projects, personalized costs/savings for your home, help finding government incentives and utility rebates, or prequalification for financing. You’ll prove out new ideas, build iteratively, and solve for common and one-off needs across the web services, APIs, and applications you build.

You’ll also support the development of our main organizational website, including CMS and CRM integrations, development of our design system, and integration of localization and translation services. The Rewiring America website supports our work to build up the electrification movement, including enabling the growth of groups like Local Government Leaders for Electrification and our CEO Coalition.

Our Personal Electrification Planner is the foundation of our roadmap to serve households and homeowners with both self-serve and assisted experiences. You’ll work to meet the needs of early adopters and electrification enthusiasts who may find us organically, as well as low income and disadvantaged communities who may find us as part of our Rewiring Communities program. 

As part of a growing organization with ambitious goals, you may find yourself prioritizing hiring, writing or evaluating technical designs and documentation, rolling up your sleeves to build a demo, meeting with customers or partners, or scoping and kicking off new work. This is first and foremost a management role. While you should have sufficient and recent technical skills and knowledge to enable you to effectively support your team, it is not expected that you will be hands-on delivering code and directly running production systems in this role.

You will:

• Develop a clear understanding of where your team’s work fits into the household electrification ecosystem, and uphold the key tenet of an integrated, “joined …