Engineering Manager

Blunomy are looking for an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing team of software and platform engineers. We are a team of full stack Python and GCP developers. Data and software solutions in the energy-and-climate-space are growing at an incredible rate. Blunomy is growing the team to support the energy industry through its digitisation, decentralisation, and decarbonisation transition – and to enable better operability and planning in Australia and around the world.

You will be instrumental in fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, directly contributing to the delivery of robust, scalable software and platform solutions that drive our impact in the climate-tech space. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will translate strategic technical vision into actionable plans, ensuring your team is equipped to tackle complex challenges and deliver innovative solutions.

Your Impact Areas

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead your team to deliver solutions that directly impact our mission and contribute to cutting-edge projects. Your leadership will enable our engineers to build and maintain the core systems that drive value, including:

• Vision Planner: model and predict the evolution of the load on the electrical network using machine learning, data analytics, and software development to forecast long-term energy consumption, daily energy profiles, and Distributed Energy Resources (Electric Vehicles, Battery, Solar PV).
• Vision Connect: dynamically model the energy network bringing together power flow modelling and machine learning to determine the DER hosting capacity of the local area.
• Bushfire risk modelling: model and compute the network related bushfire risk based on fault ignition likelihood.

Your Task

Your primary focus will be on leading and enabling your team to achieve its full potential. Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software and platform engineers, fostering a high-performance and collaborative environment.
• Be responsible for team performance, productivity, and professional development, ensuring engineers have clear goals and growth paths.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management on planning, execution, and delivery timelines for new features and platform enhancements.
• Facilitate team processes, identify and remove technical and process blockers to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, coding standards, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Champion developer experience and efficiency, working with platform engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, and internal tooling.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and align with the overall technology vision.
• Ensure effective communication within the team and with external stakeholders.
• Be actively involved in recruiting, interviewing, and retaining top engineering talent.
• Hands-on coding across modelling, platform and/or front-end.

Why work for Blunomy?

You will be joining a passionate group of professionals, aligned in our mission to move towards a decarbonised, circular, and inclusive economy. We offer:

• Attractive salary packages
• Ability to participate in the company bonus scheme
• Hybrid working environment, based in either Melbourne or Sydney
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Weekly team lunch/breakfast
• Access to our health and wellbeing platform, Moka Care

About You

We are looking for an inspiring and technically adept Engineering Manager who is passionate about nurturing talent, driving innovation with a focus on performance, maintainability, and stability. The ideal candidate will possess:

• A genuine passion for the energy transition and climate change.
• An undergraduate degree or a postgraduate in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex software projects.
• Experience collaborating effectively with Product Management and other cross-functional teams.
• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, architectural patterns, and system design.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• A collaborative mindset, capable of fostering a positive and inclusive team culture.

Eligibility to Apply:

Candidates must be either an Australian citizen/permanent resident or have ongoing working rights in Australia. Fluency in English is mandatory.

How to apply:

Please click through the Apply link to submit your application on our internal Application Tracking System, including a cover letter highlighting your values alignment to Blunomy.