Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Company Description

Palmetto is a consumer energy platform that provides homeowners with a single destination to discover purchase finance install monitor and manage home energy products and services. By offering one integrated platform across solar battery storage HVAC heat pumps and more Palmetto helps homeowners make home energy more affordable reliable and accessible. Today Palmetto serves hundreds of thousands of homeowners across 30 states building the operating infrastructure for the consumer energy transition one home at a time.

Our employees are our most valuable resource. We foster a promote-from-within culture that prioritizes talent development career growth and purpose-driven work. Palmetto offers a comprehensive benefits packageincluding unlimited PTO medical dental and vision coverage paid parental leave retirement plans and moreso you can have it all both personally and professionally. Palmetto prioritizes people planet and profitbacked by a culture that values collaboration impact and balance. Join us in building a brighter cleaner world.

Location

This position will be based in Charlotte NC.

Reporting

This position will report to the VP Engineering.

Summary of Role

You will lead the engineering teams behind how homeowners find choose and start with Palmetto. Growth builds our digital acquisition experience including the multi-product front door and the funnel that turns interested leads into qualified appointments. Journey builds the onboarding service and support experiences in our consumer app.

This is a player-coach role leading roughly 8 to 15 engineers across two squads working side by side with Product and Design. Youll set direction review designs and write code when it helps. AI agents are first-class tools for how we build and youll help your teams use them well.

Strategic & Tactical

• Lead and grow the team. Hire develop and retain strong engineers and leads. Set clear expectations give honest feedback and build career paths so no system depends on one person.
• Set direction and deliver. Set the roadmap with Product and Design weigh trade-offs openly and be clear about what the teams are not doing. Deliver work that crosses platform data and partner dependencies.
• Build for learning. Make instrumentation and experimentation part of every release and use the data to decide what to do next.
• Own the journey outcomes. Be accountable for the experiences that turn interested homeowners into customers keep them confident through installation and make it easy to get help afterward.
• Raise the bar. Keep standards high with specs tests and design and code review and with responsible use of AI tools.
• Own reliability and cost. Be accountable for system health on-call and cloud cost in your area.
• Partner across the company. Work with Product Design Marketing Customer Experience Data and Platform. Agree on priorities when viewpoints differ and keep leadership clear on progress and risks.

Qualifications

• 10 years in software engineering including 5 years managing engineers and experience leading multiple teams.
• A record of hiring well developing people and building teams with strong technical leads.
• Hands-on depth in and TypeScript and in designing and consuming REST APIs enough to review designs and code.
• Experience with web experimentation and analytics: A/B testing funnel instrumentation and conversion-focused product work.
• A track record of delivering large consumer-facing projects with sound judgment on priorities and trade-offs.
• Strong partnership with Product and Design and the ability to turn business goals into technical plans.
• Practical knowledge of agentic engineering.

Nice to have

• React Native or mobile app experience and integrations with external partners.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Palmetto embraces diversity and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications merit and business need. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

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Senior Manager