Engineering Manager

Overstory; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a mission-driven team as an Engineering Manager at Overstory, where you can lead product teams to enhance resilient electric grid solutions. Help prevent wildfires and outages while fostering a collaborative environment, and enjoy flexibility and autonomy in a company committed to climate action.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Remote working budget

Educational budget

Time for skill development

Equity and competitive salary

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience leading and managing engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience in high growth scaleup environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage product teams and drive results through others.
• Foster an inclusive and caring culture.
• Ensure technical decisions align with short and long term goals.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Product Minded

Technical Decision Making

Mentoring

Education

Technical background in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

React

Typescript

Python

Postgres DB

GCP

Job description

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across several product teams managing up to 10 engineers (including Tech Leads). This role will support our web products including Core Analytics, Wildfire, and Program Planning.

Our product teams are cross functional and will typically include: product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts relating to the teams domain.

You will be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of your area. You will challenge your teams to achieve ambition goals whilst providing a high level of support through growing engineering talent and creating a highly collaborative team based environment where people can do great work.

Your primary focus will be on creating high performing teams and driving results through others. You will not be expected to spend significant amounts of time doing hands-on coding, however, you will be expected to dive deep technically when required and leverage your extensive experience as an engineer to drive good technical decisions and solutions.

What you will do

• Enable our Vegetation Management Experience and Data Ingestion teams to become highly productive cross-functional teams that ship a high quality product on a daily basis.
• Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network.
• Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work.
• Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations.
• Be a strategic partner to product managers within your domains and ensure that we are making the correct technical decisions that balance short and long term goals.
• Ensure suitability of the architecture within your domains to enable longer term product goals
• Work closely with the other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people. Including improving our engineering practices and introducing capabilities that can accelerate delivery or unlock new product opportunities.

About You

• Passionate about climate
• Experience working in a high growth scaleup environment
• Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
• At least 2 years experience leading and managing engineers across multiple teams
• Experience working with the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines)
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
• You are based in GMT/ CET/ EST time zone.

Nice to haves

• Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential.

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway.

What you get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 72 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

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