About this role
What you'll do
- Own the architecture of specialist domains and the patterns and frameworks that other teams build on.
- Make complex systems simple: join well-defined parts through clear seams, keeping architecture "complex, never complicated."
- Do hands-on work on the hardest technical problems, and bring that depth into design reviews and planning.
- Challenge the status quo with evidence, and retire approaches that no longer serve the business.
- Mentor engineers across teams, not only within your own, and raise the bar on engineering quality through review, standards, and coaching.
- Partner with Product on how we win, and with customer-facing teams on what they need from the platform.
- Lead the planning and roadmap work at Quarterly Lab Days, in quarters where ChargeFest doesn't fall.
Qualifications
- A demonstrated record of driving innovation that measurably accelerated a technology organization, not only shipping features
- Extensive experience as a Senior or Staff-level engineer, with a track record of architecting and delivering complex systems at scale
- Deep technical expertise in distributed, event-driven systems, with sound judgment on trade-offs between simplicity, scalability, and cost
- Hands-on depth: you can build and validate the hardest parts of a system yourself, and you stay credible in the code
- Strong influence without direct authority: you've moved teams toward a better technical direction through persuasion, evidence, and example
- A record of mentoring engineers across teams, not only within one team
- Experience designing for interoperability with industry standards (OCPP, OCPI, ISO 15118, or similar), or a strong ability to learn them quickly
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documents others can act on
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics, or a related field
- Prior experience in B2B SaaS or IoT platforms is strongly preferred
- Experience with AWS is preferred.