🌍 UK, Hybrid

⭐️ Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
•  Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Engineering Manager at SO ENERGY

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and coordinate our engineering functions.

The ideal candidate has experience leading software engineering teams, has hands-on experience with scripting and programming languages and has working knowledge of microsites, microservices, infrastructure, APIs & databases. Has a strong understanding of the agile workflow and extensive experience with project management processes and tooling

Reporting in to our Technology Director) 👋

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Collect product and project requirements from multiple sources, collate, plan, and coordinate engineering efforts across multiple teams and resources for projects
• Liaise and collaborate with product managers, engineering team leads, and senior leadership
• Monitor and measure engineering progress, quality, and efficiency, and work with teams to recommend and implement improvements
• Assist with documenting processes and systems and developing protocols, such as onboarding, team rotations and more
• Manage and support tech leads personal development
• Review and approve pull requests along with team leads
• Participate in road mapping, resource and requirements planning, and sprint planning sessions
• Participate in the hiring process for future team members

This role will be a great fit if:

• Extensive experience as a software engineer in either Vue, Java, Kotlin or Ruby with 1+ year working as an engineering manager, or 2+ years working as a team lead
• Demonstratable experience managing software engineering projects
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Docker
• Hands-on experience with writing tests, test tooling, coverage, etc.
• Working knowledge of database systems & ORMS
• Experience with cache mechanics at various layers of the system architecture, from systems to techniques
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong capability to work cross-functionally
• Experience with data-driven decision making
• Experience with software engineering KPIs – what and how to track, and how to utilize the information to maximize team productivity
• Experience with assimilating outside inputs such as customer requests into core product requirements
• Familiarity with project management processes and tooling, in particular: Confluence, Jira, Advanced Roadmap planning
• Experience managing and developing engineering leaders across different skill sets (QA, Frontend, Backend, Platform)

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1.  First stage Interview - Head of Talent 
2.  Second Stage Technical Interview - Tech Director & Senior Engineering Manager
3.  Final Stage leadership and culture interview - Customer Operations Director &  People Partner 

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.