Engineering Manager

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we're driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.

Summary:

In this role, you'll be managing a distributed team of frontend, backend, and QA engineers in the Revenue Technology development group. This group is responsible for providing sales rep facing applications that are used by our Direct to Home sales team. This sales team knocks over 10 million doors per year and the application they use to sell is critical to their success. You'll play a critical role in leading your team to deliver a simplified customer onboarding experience that provide high value to the company.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coach, empower, and challenge a team of engineers and QA to grow their skills and impact as technical experts
• Leverage your technical experience to ensure that your team is making sound architectural and technical decisions, focused on a quality experience for the customer
• Hire and retain top talent
• Be a trusted resource for technical feasibility questions from Product management and UX
• Collaborate with your peer engineering managers to function as one team, delivering cohesive solutions
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Vivint Engineering and lead collaboration
• Partner with System Architects to deliver products and services that seamlessly fit into a greater Vivint software ecosystem
• Work closely with both internal and external audit teams to ensure compliance

Required Skills:

• A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams, ideally with remote or hybrid teams
• Foster industry best practices and technology decision making from the members of your team
• Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; adept at active listening
• A sense of ownership that motivates you to lead your team to deliver real value despite any external or internal roadblocks

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science preferred)
• 5+ years developing software
• 2+ years leading a software engineering team

Preferred Experience:

• 8+ years developing software
• 4+ years leading a software engineering team
• Microsoft Azure
• Microservices and Kubernetes
• Vue.js
• .Net Core (C#)
• Integrating with third-party services

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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