About Working at envelio

Too easy is boring! Together, we are on a mission to drive forward the energy transition. We love what we do, and we are unafraid to dive in. We believe in taking ownership of our work and in continuously growing and evolving. In short: own it, love it, grow with it.

We are a humble team of coffee and maté lovers with over 20 nationalities. With our geek humor, our love for emojis and random facts is only natural. Over 180 envelians are already on board. Dive in and thrive!

Your Role

As Engineering Manager - Core Team (all genders) you will lead a backend-driven engineering squad (approx. 8 people). At its core, the squad owns the underlying data models and internal workflows of the Grid Hub - a digital twin of the electrical energy grid - enabling other squads to build efficient and scalable solution on top of it. Together with your team, you ensure the platform remains robust and consistent, ensuring long-term scaling and feature extension capabilities. You work in a management team together with other Engineering Managers, as well as the Engineering Directors and VP Engineering.

How You Make an Impact

You coach, mentor and help your direct reports to grow as engineers through 1:1s, performance reviews and regular feedback
You work closely with the squad, E2E Product Managers and further stakeholders and orchestrate the process of refining the product and technical roadmap
You manage and coordinate internal feature requests and requirements, being capable of assessing technical feasibilities on a high level
You steer and monitor the delivery of software in the squad in an agile working environment and enable your squad to deliver software of high value in an efficient and consistent way
You evolve the squad by identifying and attracting talents during the recruiting process and shape the individual growth paths of your direct reports
You incorporate your technical knowledge over code reviews and sparring on technical concepts
You shape engineering practices by contributing your ideas in technical or organizational projects in the department

Your Profile

Perfection is a myth! We’re more interested in the human behind the screen, so think of these criteria as helpful directions - we're excited to see how your unique skills might fit in.

You have a proven skillset to lead and manage a cross-functional group of Software Engineers and are comfortable to apply this for a wide range of engineer skill levels (from Junior to Staff Engineer)
You have strong experience in the development of web applications and are familiar with all relevant domains, preferably in the design of core business workflows or database modeling
You strive in complex environments and enjoy working on challenging technical problems, for example in the domains graph-theory, electrical engineering, business workflows or digital-twins
You are experienced in growing and forming a diverse team by recruiting and subsequent team building
You have excellent communication skills and are motivated to coach Engineers on their personal and professional growth path
You are familiar with parts of our tech stack and are confident to work with it
You are business-fluent in English (Level C1)

How we develop Software

Agile working method with Kanban in cross-functional Squads
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Clean (and simple) Code
Code Reviews and Merge Requests
Modern web-based tools for documentation and organization
“You Code it - You Own it - You Run it” - Squad Responsibility for certain functional areas of the product

Our Tech Stack

Python, incl. additional packages/frameworks e.g., FastAPI, Celery
PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
RabbitMQ, Redis
Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes

Your Benefits

Join us fully remote or at our lovely office in Cologne in a hybrid working mode
Option for remote work from abroad (up to three months per year from anywhere in the EU or the USA)
State of the art technology and modern tech stack
Excellent hardware equipment (16-inch MacBooks, 2 screens at the office)
30 holidays + 3 corporate holidays
Support for your health through sports membership cooperations
Flexible use of a monthly mobility budget (e.g. Jobrad, public transport)
Time and resources for individual growth
envelio pension plan
Regular company and team events

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About us

Intelligent grids for a sustainable future worldwide - this is our vision! Therefore, we are building the digital hub for the future of power grid management: The Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP). The IGP is the core of our software as a service solution. It’s our ambition to make the IGP and envelio 1 % better everyday. Grow with us!

As a remote-first company, we let you decide how much you want to work remotely - from 0% to 100%. Whether you live in Cologne or Aachen, Bonn or Berlin, Munich or Castrop-Rauxel; all you need is internet! You can also work from abroad for up to three months per year. Since 2017, we have built a diverse international team, with English as our company language.