Job description
Engineering Manager Heartbeat AI (m/f/d)
Company Overview
At 1KOMMA5°, we pursue a clear vision: Living on wind and sunlight forever for free. To make this a reality, we are building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI. We bring together regional craftsmanship and scalable software: We don't think of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and e-mobility as isolated components, but control them as an intelligent, integrated overall system in our virtual power plant. Directly connected to the electricity market – in real time, fully automated.
Your mission
As an Engineering Manager at 1KOMMA5° Heartbeat AI GmbH, you will lead one of our cross-functional App teams, empowering your engineers to own the full lifecycle of their products from development and deployment to day-to-day operations.
Technology Stack
- TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, Flutter
- AI-assisted development with Cursor and agentic coding workflows
- SQLMesh, BigQuery, Looker
- GCP, Vercel, GitHub Actions, Datadog
- Linear, Notion, Figma, Miro
Key responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and expertise across the team and be part of the hiring process to find the best talents
- Be an excellent people manager and support your team members in their professional and personal development
- Help your team members to create, implement, evaluate, deploy, sustain, and enhance software solutions for complex and undefined problems
- Foster a culture of experiment-driven innovation within the team
- Promote teamwork and successful project execution
- Improve developer satisfaction by constantly avoiding/reducing tech-debt, automating as much as possible and documenting decisions, runbooks etc.
Your profile
You have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- At least 5 years of proven experience in software engineering in a fast paced and scalable environment
- At least 3 years of experience in leading cross-functional and agile software engineering teams working with cutting edge technologies on distributed systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills in English, German is a plus
Bonus points for:
- Experience in climate tech and especially energy industry
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
Benefits
- You are part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team
- Direct impact on the energy transition and the climate
- Work with and learn from super-smart colleagues
- Direct contact with core decision-makers
- Remote work (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin or Munich
- EGYM Wellpass
- Benefits and discounts with Futurebens
- Job bike leasing
