Software Engineering Manager (EU)

⚡About Amber

Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition.

We’re an Australian headquartered company, where we are both an energy technology company and a utility providing energy directly to households and small businesses. In Australia (the world leader on rooftop solar and a 2-way energy grid), we’ve proven that the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries, EVs, and other smart energy devices.

Customers get direct access to the real-time electricity prices and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest.

We are a clear market leader in energy automation in Australia, and are now partnering with utilities across Europe to bring our technology to European markets and consumers.

We’re at a critical moment in taking the business to scale in Europe. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing regional team of 15, and be part of a global team of over 220, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.

We’re backed by leading VCs in Australia and Europe, as well as impact-focused investors and world-leading energy companies.

💻 About the role

At Amber you’ll be able to apply your people and technical skills to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in customer households, enabling them to shift their electricity consumption to times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting people outbid energy generators and earn potentially >£50 in an afternoon.

The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:

• Home automation integrations (to batteries and EVs) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
• Mobile apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
• Web app and APIs for clients to manage customer account lifecycles, support, and insights

We have a fantastic engineering team at Amber full of generous, kind, intelligent, and motivated people and your job will be to coach, grow, and support them.

You will be a frequent contributor to:

• high level technical strategy
• discussions around the delivery roadmap for clients
• hiring, on-boarding, and ongoing learning processes
• performance management and review processes
• team and culture building activities

We’re committed to maintaining and growing a diverse and inclusive workplace and expect any candidate to be aligned with that purpose and capable of supporting it.

👉🏽 Responsibilities

• Build a balanced and high performing team, through recruiting from a wide range of backgrounds, experience levels, etc
• Grow the individual capabilities of team members through continuous professional development, training, and performance reviews
• Cultivate a highly collaborative environment and foster psychological safety
• Contribute to technical and product strategy, especially where they touch on the capabilities (or gaps) of your team
• Contribute to scalable and repeatable team processes and documentation (ie onboarding, perf review structures, etc.)

👉🏽 Requirements

• At least two years of engineering management experience, OR four years at a tech/team lead level, with a strong interest in people
• Strong verbal and written communications skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans
• Enough technical grounding to participate in problem solving and design discussions at all levels of the organisation

👉🏽 Nice to haves

• Leadership experience in similar scale/trajectory businesses - Series B/C VC funded startups
• Relevant domain experience from the energy or IoT sectors (or both)
• Experience working in client-facing roles or managing direct reports in client-facing roles
• Additional language skills, particularly in European languages, may support broader team and client engagement

🎉 Benefits

• We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world
• Join a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use
• You’d be a part of a growing team of over 220 people with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
• Flexible working hours & remote working - see "How You Work" for more info
• Competitive salary within your local market
• Employment and leave entitlements as per your local country
• An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth
• Annual company conference in Melbourne, Australia

💰 Salary range

Between £115,000 and £140,000 base per annum.

This is a full-time role to be based ideally from the UK/Germany/Netherlands. We do have a co-working space in London where we work flexibly between the office and home.

🇬🇧How You Work🇦🇺

You will be working predominantly remotely within a high-trust environment where transparency and accountability are foundational to our engineering culture. Amber's flexible approach allows you to shape your schedule around core collaboration hours, which are 7am - 11am Mondays to Thursdays London time. This overlap enables meaningful collaboration with your Australian colleagues.

Outside these core hours, we trust you to manage your time effectively. We focus on outcomes and impact rather than hours logged, but we do expect consistent communication and reliable delivery on commitments. Regular check-ins and transparent progress updates are part of how we maintain this balance of freedom and responsibility.

We value work-life balance and sustainable pace—we don't want team members to overwork or burn out, nor do we expect you to be available 24/7. Instead, we promote clear boundaries and open dialogue about workload and capacity.

Our headquarters is located in Melbourne, Australia, with a second co-working office/space in Sydney, Australia. Our European team operates from a central London hub that you will travel to during your onboarding, and approximately every 2 months thereafter for team collaboration. These in-person sessions help strengthen relationships and reinforce our collaborative culture.

We also have AmberCon every year, this is a big team calendar event and we will fly you to Melbourne to be there with the rest of the team. We will always cover flights, accommodation and other travel costs as part of our travel policies.

🌈 If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Our hiring process will generally be as follows:

• A screening call with our talent team
• A take home case study
• A follow up skills based interview reflecting on the case study with local engineering leadership
• A cultural interview with Engineering Managers from our Australian team
• A final chat with the Director of Engineering

We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.

Only applicants with full working rights in the UK/Europe region will be considered for the role.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.

No recruitment agencies please. We are already working with our preferred partners. Thank you!