Job description
Engineering Manager
Company Overview
Opus Recruitment Solutions is a specialist technology talent partner, connecting exceptional people with organisations operating at the forefront of change. We build and deliver agile, scalable talent solutions that help clients shape their workforce strategy and create high-performing teams.
Job Summary
We’re building software that supports the energy transition — helping utilities, grid operators, and energy providers manage increasing complexity through intelligent, modern platforms. This role is ideal for an Engineering Manager who enjoys developing people, shaping engineering organisations, and modernising long‑lived, reliability‑critical systems in a regulated, high‑impact domain.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and support high‑performing product engineering teams.
- Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback cycles, and career development conversations.
- Create an environment of psychological safety, ownership, and quality awareness.
- Lead hiring end‑to‑end, from role definition to onboarding and long‑term growth.
- Stay technically involved at a Senior or Staff level when it brings clarity or momentum.
- Support architectural decisions, system design discussions, and complex code reviews.
- Own and evolve frontend and cross‑stack engineering standards with a TypeScript‑first mindset.
- Advocate for maintainability, testing, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Support cloud‑ and AI‑driven initiatives, including automation, optimisation, and forecasting use cases.
- Raise engineering quality standards through role modelling and clear expectations.
- Drive cross‑team technical initiatives (e.g. platform modernisation, design systems, developer experience, observability).
- Translate long‑term energy‑sector goals into pragmatic, executable engineering plans.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong technical background at Senior or Staff Engineer level.
- Extensive experience with modern TypeScript development and scalable web architectures.
- Experience across frontend and backend systems, enabling holistic architectural thinking.
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or equivalent people‑leadership role.
- Passion for coaching, mentoring, and long‑term engineer development.
- Ability to lead performance, growth, and hiring conversations with empathy and clarity.
- Experience working in cloud‑native environments (e.g. GCP, AWS, or similar).
- Hands‑on exposure to AI‑enabled engineering workflows and automation tools.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- English at C1/C2 level in an international working environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in energy, utilities, climate tech, or infrastructure software.
- German language skills.
- Deep expertise in either frontend or backend to complement a generalist management profile.
- Experience modernising legacy or mission‑critical systems.
- Exposure to data‑heavy platforms (forecasting, optimisation, monitoring).
Location
Germany, Remote: True
Employment Type
Full Time
