Software Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager leads TransitionZero's engineering team in building software solutions that turn no-code energy modelling analysts into expert modellers. This role is responsible for creating a high-performing engineering culture, ensuring predictable delivery of our technical commitments, and driving continuous improvement in our practices. The Engineering Manager will coach, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary team of engineers whilst working closely with Product, Data and Energy Modelling colleagues., * Build a high-performing team using DORA () capabilities as a benchmark (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate).

• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting both technical growth and adaptability through change.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Actively remove blockers and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.

Delivery management

• Own the planning and flow of work through the backlog, ensuring commitments are well defined, prioritised, and executed on time.
• Provide clear, concise summaries of delivery status, risks, and dependencies for leadership.
• Partner with Product to shape roadmaps and balance innovation, quality, and operational stability.
• Ensure teams use Agile practices effectively (sprint planning, stand-ups, retros, estimation).

Technical stewardship

• Maintain strong foundations in Python development, cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), containerisation, and CI/CD tooling.
• Guide the evolution of our systems architecture in collaboration with senior engineers and the CTO.
• Encourage innovative technical approaches that improve speed, quality, and resilience.
• Ensure observability and operability of all software services, promoting a site reliability engineering (SRE) mindset.

Engineering excellence

• Ensure the team builds robust, well-crafted, documented, and versioned APIs that enable teams to interact using the Team Topologies "X-as-a-Service" model.
• Champion the use of open standards (e.g. OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, OpenTelemetry) to maximise interoperability and transparency.
• Drive adoption of operational excellence practices: observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Promote a "you build it, you run it" culture where engineers take ownership of the services they develop, balancing delivery speed with reliability.
• Represent TransitonZero in external-facing technical contexts (e.g. technical conferences, blog-posts, expert stakeholder and user discussions).

People & culture

• Set OKRs and support career development for direct reports.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.
• Promote inclusion, wellbeing, and psychological safety within the team.
• Act as a culture-carrier for TransitionZero, representing the engineering team internally and externally.

This role requires both strong engineering foundations (Python, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, test automation) and the ability to manage delivery detail, enabling the CTO to focus on strategy and innovation., * Proven track record as an Engineering Manager with people management responsibilities.

• Strong coaching and mentoring ability, with evidence of developing high-performing teams.
• Experience managing delivery in Agile environments with complex data and API-driven products.
• Hands-on technical expertise in Python, APIs (Flask/FastAPI), containers (Docker), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Cloud Run/Functions).
• Strong cloud experience (GCP preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to oversee detail and delivery while keeping sight of the bigger picture.

Beneficial

• Experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or computational pipelines.
• Domain knowledge in energy systems, climate, or sustainability.
• Exposure to geospatial data, ML/AI.