Engineering Manager

Ready to help build a more sustainable future through electric vehicles? Then we want to talk to you!

EV Connect believes in electricity as a fuel to help solve the challenges we face with climate change and pollution. That’s why we’ve developed the most flexible and reliable EV charging solutions on the market, giving businesses and organizations everywhere, the resources they need to service a growing number of EV drivers.

EV Connect is seeking an Engineering Manager with 5+ years of experience seeding and growing teams of talented engineers, who shares our passion for electric vehicles and their ability to positively impact transportation, air quality and energy independence for generations to come.

As an Engineering Manager you'll contribute to the following activities:

Screen, interview, recruit, coach and grow our talents making sure they have all the context, tools and processes to help them deliver effective software.
As a leader, you'll create a safe environment for the teams to feel empowered and challenged to deliver their best.
Supervise projects - Closely collaborate with business and product teams to adapt the plan according to the priorities on regular basis.
Identify, communicate and mitigate risks.
Identify and organize trainings when and where needed.
Contribute to our continuous improvement work to make our processes and tooling (both globally and within the teams) better and better as we go, while maintaining a high bar for quality in code/implementation and continuity of design and architecture
Our engineering is spreading over several regions, you'll contribute the pollination of best practices, encourage network development.
Manage teams' staffing, resource plans and budgets. Manage relationship with contracting companies involved.
Contribute to the definition and implementation of Engineering strategic orientations and roadmap.
Monitor teams' performance and build improvement plans when and where needed. We'll expect you to help optimize, employ best practices and continuously improve our SDLC.
Build partnerships with peers in product development, quality assurance, cloud operations and dev ops, application infrastructure, customer service and station operations teams to achieve company and departmental goals.
Challenge assumptions and status quo.
Champion and facilitate technical innovation.
Evaluate 3rd party applications and services for applicability in supporting EVC engineering solutions.
Coordinate 3rd-tier engineering support for station operations, customer service, release management and quality assurance

Required skills and experience:

Relevant experience, first as a developer and later in managing development teams in the domain of web and IoT technologies.
Experience with management of remote resources.
Experience with AWS.
Rich IT culture - Experience with and/or knowledge of QA, test automation, CI/CD, dev ops, cybersec, data privacy, monitoring, observability, architecture…
Experience with deployment of Agile Practices through medium/large organizations.
Communication - you can report on progress and issues to our business and provide clear leadership to the teams you manage.
Logical thinking and teamwork - new problems emerge every day and our job is to resolve them as a team.

Would be a plus:

Knowledgeable about "team topology" is a plus, having hands on experience on transforming engineering organizations to make it work is a BIG plus!
Same as above with "Accelerate."
Experience in an international context.

About EV Connect:

EV Connect is on a mission to build a better planet by enabling electricity as a transportation fuel. Through its innovative and open charging platform, EV Connect simplifies the set-up, management, and optimization of charging stations with premium customer service, from installation to driver support. EV Connect guides companies of all sizes in managing networks of chargers and delivers a seamless EV charging experience that empowers drivers.

Established in 2010, EV Connect is a subsidiary of Schneider Electric which serves customers across the U.S., including GM, Avista Utilities, Love’s Travel Stops, Verizon, Marriott, Hilton, Western Digital, SCE, New York Power Authority, and numerous municipalities. Globally, EV Connect's reach extends across Europe, Australia, and Asia, removing carbon emissions from vehicles through the electrification of transportation.

Named to the 2022 Times100 List of Most Influential Companies, the Company has been a perennial member of the Inc. 5000 growth list since 2020. For more information, please visit www.evconnect.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.  

EV Connect is an Equal Opportunity Employer and requires proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.