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Software Engineering Manager leading Terafab software development at Terabase Energy, which digitalizes large-scale solar construction. Designing scalable systems and coordinating hardware-adjacent engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and implementation of significant features, services, and architectural components within Fab
- Design and implement complex data models, APIs, and scalable system integrations
- Define and maintain technical interfaces between Fab software and Autonomy, IoT, and Controls/SCADA systems
- Drive technical strategy and architecture for Terafab’s manufacturing execution system
- Drive technical decisions for construction automation orchestration workflows
- Address technical debt, refactoring, and system modernization
- Establish coding patterns, best practices, and technical standards
- Evaluate and introduce technologies and tools that improve productivity or product capabilities
- Conduct architecture-focused code reviews
- Represent engineering in product and cross-functional planning
- Resolve complex cross-system technical challenges and architectural limitations
- Lead production issue investigations, root cause analysis, and long-term fixes
- Contribute to technical planning, estimation, and risk assessment
- Serve as technical escalation point for production incidents
- Manage a small team, including performance oversight, career development, and regular 1:1s
- Facilitate scrum processes including sprint planning, backlog grooming, standups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews
- Coordinate prioritization, delivery, blockers, and dependencies
- Coordinate with Autonomy, IoT, Controls, and other cross-functional partners
- Translate product requirements into actionable technical work
- Mentor team members through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
- Assist with engineering planning, resource estimation, risk assessment, hiring, candidate assessment, and onboarding
- Contribute to engineering culture, process improvements, and cross-functional relationships
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 1+ years of experience managing or leading a small engineering team, including people management, performance feedback, and career development
- Passion for developing other engineers through mentorship, goal-setting, and clear, direct communication
- Recent experience shipping production code that you have written
- Expert proficiency in Python and building scalable backend services with modern frameworks (e.g., Django)
- Strong architectural thinking with proven ability to design systems that scale across multiple dimensions (performance, team size, feature complexity)
- Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular, React), including complex state management and performance optimization
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and query optimization
- Productive, non-dependent use of AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor), with demonstrated ability to set appropriate guardrails for junior engineers
- Proven experience designing and implementing complex data models with intricate relationships and constraints
- Demonstrated experience defining and maintaining technical interfaces between software and hardware-adjacent systems (e.g., industrial automation, robotics, or IoT systems)
- Hands-on experience participating in and facilitating agile/scrum processes including sprint planning, backlog management, and team velocity tracking
- Preferred: Davis, CA or regional presence; candidates based in Pacific or Mountain time zones strongly preferred
- Preferred: Deep experience with workflow orchestration or state machine systems, event-driven architectures, discrete event simulation, or industrial automation
- Preferred: Familiarity with hardware integration protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, or CAN bus
- Preferred: Experience with real-time monitoring and telemetry systems, edge computing, or IoT data pipelines
- Preferred: Proficiency with PostGIS or similar tools for spatial data workloads
- Preferred: Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code (AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Preferred: Subject matter expertise in construction technology, industrial automation, renewable energy systems, or related domains
- Preferred: Track record of technical and team leadership in fast-paced, high-growth startup or scale-up environments
- Preferred: Experience with microservices architectures and distributed systems
- Preferred: Experience with performance optimization, scaling, and reliability engineering
Benefits:
- Generous time off and holiday policy
- Hybrid flexibility
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Career progression
- 401k match
- Stock options
- Home office set up allowance
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