Manager Software Engineering (d/f/m)

Flexa • Munich

Flexa

Flexa, a Joint Venture between Enpal and Entrix, is chartered with establishing a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) that delivers exceptional energy cost savings while supporting the transition to a 100% renewable electricity future. Through a deep integration into the installed hardware and a direct connection to the customer interfaces, Flexa’s solution controls the energy assets (such as EV, heat pump, home storage and others) of the entire Enpal energy community with an exceptional level of accuracy, speed, transparency, and thus customer satisfaction. With intelligent real-time dispatching algorithms, Flexa maximizes Enpal customers’ usable flexibility and its returns on energy markets including costs, such as grid fees, asset degradation.

Full-time

Munich

from today

Your duties

Set the technical vision and strategy for your team and oversee strategic initiatives from development through to successful execution
Coach and guide the professional and technical development of your team members.
Establish a culture of engineering excellence
Assist and communicate with executives and leads in decision-making, program management and initiative implementation
Review, design, and execute on improvements to organizational structure, find knowledge and skill gaps and actively help address them
Improve and create processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized effectiveness, excellence and speed of delivery
Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders across Flexa
Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications
Work closely with recruiters and the leadership team to attract and hire high potential candidates

Your profile

Mandatory Requirements

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related tech field
5+ years working experience in software development and 2+ years of leadership experience, ideally in backend development and cloud platforms
Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams
Proven ability to contribute to technical planning and design discussions
Strong proficiency in backend development: Python, cloud (e.g. AWS), virtualization and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g. CDK, Pulumi), workflow orchestration (e.g. Prefect, AWS step functions), Observability (e.g. Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Grafana)
Experience in strategic technical cross team coordination and leadership
Ability to identify and track complex dependencies across multiple internal and external teams

Skills to Set You Apart

Energy Trading Experience

This role may not be a fit for you if…

You haven’t worked in a start-up environment

At Flexa, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

Our offer

Competitive Compensation Package: Including salary, benefits and options
Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc.
Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.

Testimonials

Empowerment and collaboration are necessary to create an impactful digital product. Having people from diverse backgrounds best enables us to build vibrant teams that tackle our complex engineering challenges. Different nationalities, genders, and lived experiences, highlight distinctive solutions and allow for holistic problem-solving approaches.

Having joined Enpal's tech team almost a year ago, I felt warmly welcomed from the beginning. It's an inspiring environment where everyone can pick tasks they enjoy. I appreciate the freedom to voice disagreements and have constructive discussions to find the best solutions collaboratively. We encourage suggesting and driving solutions - not just creating new features but also maintaining software and managing tech debt.