Engineering Manager

Enode; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first in Europe

Office in Oslo or flexible co-working

Annual off-sites

Home office stipend

Job summary

Enode is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the software layer connecting EVs, chargers, solar, and batteries. You will help customers optimize energy use across fleets of homes, redesigning for speed, reliability, and broader coverage, from device-level control to whole‑home optimization.

You’ll shape strategy, mentor leaders, and drive AI-enabled advances. We value leaders who coach teams, set high standards, and push for practical AI adoption.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing engineers.
• Experience leading AI initiatives and adoption.
• Proven ability to lead across remote, distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's technical vision end to end and partner with product for ambitious roadmaps.
• Define what great looks like and drive teams to meet high standards.
• Collaborate with CTO to shape strategy, bets, and the roadmap for a new business area.
• Be a member of the engineering leadership team and influence beyond your team.
• Lead AI adoption, turning theory into real projects that change how we build, ship and operate.
• Hire and coach engineers to sharpen the team and help individuals reach their potential.
• Set clear expectations and hold people accountable with empathy and firmness.
• Delegate with real ownership and push back to maintain trust and progress.
• Build cross-functional relationships across engineering, product, and leadership.
• You will be someone peers come to for thoughtful input and constructive feedback.

Skills

People management

AI adoption leadership

Engineering leadership

Remote team leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical vision

Hiring & coaching

Job description

About Enode

The grid was built for predictable, centralised power. Today it's absorbing intermittent supply from grid scale solar and wind, alongside dynamic demand from EVs, heat pumps, and home batteries. The missing piece is software that can connect and orchestrate these devices at scale.

We’re the layer between the home and the grid. Our platform connects every asset, coordinates every home and shapes thousands as one. Asset connectivity gives energy retailers one API for 1,000+ device models across 100+ brands. Home energy coordination turns that connection into smarter behavior at home, like charging an EV in the cheapest hours or using more of your own solar. Residential flexibility brings connected homes together into a dispatchable resource the grid can count on.

Europe’s largest energy companies build on Enode: retailers, utilities and the teams that trade for them. The platform spans 1.7M+ connected households and 5,000+ MW of controllable load. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Lowercarbon Capital and Creandum.

The decisions made now will shape how the next grid gets built. We’re looking for people who take ownership, think clearly under complexity and care deeply about the craft of building software that matters.

AI is fundamental to how we work

AI is how a team our size keeps rewiring the way we work, fast enough to match what our mission demands. We look for people who reach for AI as a reflex and who can drop a habit that used to work. People who care about unblocking others, not just about what they ship themselves. If that's not quite how you work yet but it's the direction you're heading, we'd still like to hear from you. We assess this in our interview process, alongside everything else we look at.

What we’re looking for:

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the software layer that connects EVs, chargers, solar, and batteries, so customers can optimize across fleets of homes and within each home, helping people manage their own energy while participating in grid‑scale optimization. That means redesigning for speed, reliability, and broader coverage, evolving from controlling individual devices to optimizing the entire home, driveway included.

AI is raising the bar for engineering leadership, and we need someone who leads people, not just process, who sets a standard the team is proud to clear, and tells leadership what it needs to hear. Our people are our most valuable asset, and we're looking for someone who leads like that. You will:

• Own the team's technical vision end to end, not just execute someone else's roadmap. You partner effectively with the product team to create an ambitious roadmap

• Define what "great" looks like, and refuse to settle for less. Your definition comes from past experiences of seeing great teams succeed

• Sit at the table with the CTO to shape strategy, product bets, and the roadmap for a business area we’re still inventing

• Sit on the engineering leadership team, your job doesn't stop at your team's edge

• Lead the charge on AI adoption: find where it changes how we build, ship, and operate, and make it real, not theoretical

• Hire and grow people who make the team sharper, not just bigger. You are a coach to your teammates and help them reach their full potential

• Set expectations that are impossible to misread, then hold people to them with empathy and firmness, in equal measure

• Delegate like you mean it: give your team real ownership, not just tasks

• Push back on me (the CTO), on stakeholders, on plans that don't hold up, and do it in a way that builds trust, not friction

• Build relationships people actually rely on, across engineering, product, and leadership

• Be the person your team and peers come to think out loud with, no judgment, direct feedback both ways.

This role will be right for you, if:

• 3+ years managing engineers, and you love it!

• You have values you won't compromise, even when it costs you something; tell us what those are!

• You are driven and ambitious, you push for hard goals and hold a high bar for yourself and everyone around you, consistently

• You have good instincts for when to keep it simple and when a clever solution is worth the complexity

• You've led remote, distributed teams and know what holds people together at a distance

• You think past your own team, comfortable shaping decisions at the engineering leadership‑team level

• You’ve built AI products that have contributed meaningfully to the team's success

• You do your best work with your stakeholders in the room, not despite them

• Strong opinions, loosely held; you'll fight for a position, and drop it the moment the evidence says you're wrong

• Genuinely interested in the Energy shift, not just management as a craft, but this problem specifically

• Proactive to a fault; you spot the problem before anyone asks you to, and find ways to fix it

• People do better work around you; that's not an accident, it's how you lead and inspire

• You’ve made lots of mistakes in the past and can tell us what that taught you and how it shaped the manager you are today

• Bonus: you've worked across very different environments or company stages, and can tell us what that taught you

• Note: whether you want to stay hands‑on as a player‑coach or focus fully on management, both are welcome!

What we offer:

• Opportunity to join and impact an early‑stage climate tech startup with global aspirations as we scale.

• A mission‑driven, fun and caring environment with high drive and ambition.

• Competitive compensation, including a very attractive employee option program - you’re part of our journey.

• Access to best in class AI tooling, we think the ceiling on what a small team can do has fundamentally shifted, and we want you to feel that.

• Real investment in your AI fluency. Dedicated time to build the skill, an internal skills library you can contribute to, and the tooling budget to work properly.

• Remote‑first in Europe, with the option of attending an office in Oslo or receiving a co‑working pass on demand.

• Three annual off‑sites to connect with the team in exciting & fun places.

• Flexible, human‑first culture.

• Stipend for setting up your home office.

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A few things to note:

• Enode is an equal opportunities employer. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

• Our values are integral to the way we work and are embedded into all our hiring processes. You can read more about our values here.