Software Engineering Manager

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.

Locusview recently acquired by Itron is building a cloudbased digital construction platform that helps leading gas and electric utility companies manage complex infrastructure projects in real time. Our technology improves data accuracy conserves resources and helps prevent environmental harmmaking infrastructure work safer smarter and more sustainable.

As we continue to grow were seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join our R&D organization. This role blends people leadership delivery ownership and handson technical influence leading a Scrum team that builds missioncritical microservices while partnering closely with Product and Engineering in a fastmoving startup environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an agile Scrum team delivering core capabilities for a cloudbased digital construction platform serving global Utilities and Energy customers with a strong customercentric focus on reliability data accuracy and realtime visibility.

• Take full accountability for team outcomes including delivery commitments technical quality operational health and alignment with product and business priorities.

• Serve as a people manager supporting hiring onboarding goal setting performance feedback and career development for engineers on the team.

• Foster an authentic inclusive and psychologically safe team culture where engineers feel supported challenged and empowered to do their best work.

• Own endtoend development and operations of missioncritical microservices ensuring the team meets high standards for code quality security performance and production readiness.

• Partner closely with Product Managers to translate business and customer needs into clear technical plans realistic delivery timelines and wellscoped backlog priorities.

• Drive API design and implementation setting standards for scalability documentation versioning and integration to support internal teams and external partners.

• Collaborate crossfunctionally with QA DevOps/SRE and other engineering leaders to improve agile delivery CI/CD pipelines and operational processes.

• Act as a delivery leader proactively identifying risks managing dependencies communicating progress and ensuring transparency with stakeholders.

• Support operational excellence through monitoring incident response and postincident learning reinforcing a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

• Remain handson when needed by reviewing designs and code mentoring through technical challenges and modeling strong engineering and leadership practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of experience leading or managing software engineering teams with demonstrated success in coaching motivating and influencing others without relying on authority.

• 5 years of handson software development experience using objectoriented programming principles.

• Proven ability to balance people management delivery management and technical leadership in fastpaced agile environments.

• Strong experience designing building and supporting microservices and APIs in production systems.

• Experience with relational databases including data modeling and performance optimization.

• Practical experience with Docker including containers images and Docker Compose.

• Strong communication prioritization and stakeholdermanagement skills with a collaborative mindset.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

• High selfmotivation and the ability to lead with authenticity accountability and empathy.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience building and supporting Cloud or SaaS products ideally within Utilities Energy or other infrastructurefocused industries.

• Handson experience with AWS services such as ECS S3 and EC2.

• Experience with modern build and deployment tools including Jenkins and Kubernetes.

• Experience leading teams through growth change or scaling in a startup or scaleup environment.

• Proficiency with Python and/or .

• Demonstrated ability to introduce innovative engineering or management practices that improve scalability reliability team health or developer productivity.

Benefits Info:

This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial social health and wellbeing programs paid vacation 401k matching employee stock purchase program hybrid work schedule and more!

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Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences dont perfectly align with every requirement we encourage you to apply the end you may be just who we are looking for!

The successful candidates starting wage will be determined based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply please contact a recruiting representative at 1- or email .

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