Manager, Software Engineering

About Form Energy

At Form Energy, we're building a world-class engineering culture of passionate and mission-driven people. We design and build hardware and software products to solve challenging problems with massive market impact, low-cost, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable reliable and fully renewable electric grids year-round.

Role Description:

We're in a phase of growth – join our team and make a difference. You'll be helping to position our breakthrough technology, accelerate our software adoption, and be an early member of a growing software engineering practice that directly impacts climate change.

Our teams consist of Formware^TM, our flagship software, and is an optimization and modeling product. Opsware is a suite of applications and tools for our hardware products' design, manufacturing, test, distribution, ops management, and fleet management. And, TechData builds the data pipelines to capture machine-generated data and interfaces for our battery technology.

The Manager, Software Engineering will lead and manage our Formware^TM Team. Our data-driven approach encompasses everything from product pricing to utility customer segmentation, asset sizing, and regulatory filings for our backed industry-leading analytics and optimization. Additionally, the Formware^TM team is full-stack and responsible for the software products that make these algorithmic capabilities standardized, scalable, interpretable and trusted while keeping things flexible to support creative decision-making.

What You'll Do:

• Guide the technical development of a portfolio of software tools for power grid analytics, including CLIs, Python libraries, web tools, and data pipelines
• Hire and develop a diverse, distributed, high-performing, highly engaged software engineering team
• Represent your team in cross-functional collaborations with Analytics, Commercial, Optimization Algos, Policy, and Product teams to align roadmaps and take accountability for team priorities
• Fill in technical gaps between ICs while the team is small, and shift the balance more toward people management as the team grows
• Passion for our mission, sustainability, and climate change

What You'll Bring:

• Hands-on experience with direct hiring and people management responsibilities
• Senior-level and proven professional software/data engineering experience
• Experience leading the development of data-intensive software systems in Python and React. Our stack also includes Typescript, AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, CPLEX - preference for candidates familiar with these (or similar)
• Ability to jump into conversations about PPAs, CCAs, IRPs, LMPs, LCOEs, and ELCCs with minimal ramp-up time
• A management style that embodies Form Energy's values of Humanity, Excellence, and Creativity by emphasizing innovative problem solving, rapid cycles of learning, high standards for quality of work products and throughput, growth, and inclusion
• A pragmatic approach to problem-solving that blends good judgment, clear communication, follow-through, and creative use of resources
• Background in renewables, storage, or utilities, or strong desire to learn

Form Energy, where possible, embraces a digital work environment and supports onsite, hybrid, and remote types of work with office locations in Somerville, MA (Greater Boston), Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), and Eighty Four, PA (Greater Pittsburgh).

Compensation, Benefits, and Perks

Form Energy is committed to equitable compensation and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. We offer a 401k and all employees are granted stock options. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Form Energy, We are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.