Manager, Software Engineering
over 1 year ago
Full time role
Pittsburgh, PA, US
Pittsburgh, PA, US
Job Description
Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.
Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow?
Role DescriptionThe Software Engineering team at Form builds innovative internal and customer-facing tools that touch every part of Form’s product and company. We’re a Python/React/AWS shop, and use a modern data stack including Snowflake and Dagster.
Form Energy’s approach to energy storage business development is uniquely data-driven—everything from product pricing to asset sizing to regulatory filings are backed by industry-leading analytics and optimization. The Formware team is responsible for the suite of software products that makes these algorithmic capabilities standardized, scalable, interpretable, and trusted, all while keeping things flexible to support creative decision-making and high-value asset operations.
As the engineering manager of the Formware team, you’ll guide and grow a team of software engineers to execute on this challenge. This is a unique opportunity to leverage and expand your software, energy, and management experience to make a direct impact on climate change as part of a fast-growing team.
Form Energy, where possible, embraces a digital work environment and supports onsite, hybrid, and remote types of work with office locations in Somerville, MA (Greater Boston), Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), and Eighty Four, PA (Greater Pittsburgh). #LI-DNI
Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.
We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page.
At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow?
Role DescriptionThe Software Engineering team at Form builds innovative internal and customer-facing tools that touch every part of Form’s product and company. We’re a Python/React/AWS shop, and use a modern data stack including Snowflake and Dagster.
Form Energy’s approach to energy storage business development is uniquely data-driven—everything from product pricing to asset sizing to regulatory filings are backed by industry-leading analytics and optimization. The Formware team is responsible for the suite of software products that makes these algorithmic capabilities standardized, scalable, interpretable, and trusted, all while keeping things flexible to support creative decision-making and high-value asset operations.
As the engineering manager of the Formware team, you’ll guide and grow a team of software engineers to execute on this challenge. This is a unique opportunity to leverage and expand your software, energy, and management experience to make a direct impact on climate change as part of a fast-growing team.
What You'll Do:
- Guide the technical development of a portfolio of software tools for energy storage planning and dispatch, including CLIs, Python libraries, web tools, and data pipelines
- Hire and develop a diverse, high-performing, highly engaged software engineering team
- Represent your team in collaborations with Analytics, Commercial, Optimization Algos, Product, and other Software Eng teams to align roadmaps and take accountability for team priorities
- Act primarily as a people manager and technical advisor, with occasional hands-on technical work to fill gaps while the team is small
What You'll Bring:
- Minimum 1 year of management experience, including direct hiring and people management responsibilities
- Minimum 7+ years of professional software/data engineering experience
- Experience leading the development of data-intensive or algorithm-driven software systems
- A management style that embodies Form Energy’s values of Humanity, Excellence, and Creativity by emphasizing innovative problem solving, rapid cycles of learning, high standards for quality, growth, and inclusion
- Background in renewables, storage, or utilities, or a strong desire to learn. If you’re not familiar with terms like PPA, CCA, IRP, LMP, LCOE, and ELCC, you will be soon after you join!
Form Energy, where possible, embraces a digital work environment and supports onsite, hybrid, and remote types of work with office locations in Somerville, MA (Greater Boston), Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), and Eighty Four, PA (Greater Pittsburgh). #LI-DNI
Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.
We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page.
At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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