Senior Software Engineering Manager at Terabase Energy in Berkeley, CA

Overview

We’re advancing the future of renewable energy through intelligent software that optimizes how solar power plants are designed, predicted, and delivered. As Senior Software Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a distributed team driving the evolution of our flagship energy intelligence platforms — PlantPredict and the Pro Apps suite — which empower global solar developers to design, simulate, and deliver optimized renewable energy projects with precision and speed. You’ll drive technical leadership, architectural modernization, and product delivery across these critical applications, ensuring they continue to meet the reliability, scalability, and innovation standards required by our global customers. This role combines hands-on technical guidance, team leadership, and strategic direction in partnership with product, data, and domain experts.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

· Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of 5-8 engineers, fostering continuous growth, innovation, and adaptability as the organization embraces AI-driven tools and workflows.

· Oversee recruitment, professional growth, and performance management for team members.

· Enable collaboration across distributed teams and ensure alignment with product priorities.

· Champion agile and DevOps best practices across development and release cycles.

· Guide and mentor engineers in adopting emerging AI technologies and tools, fostering confidence, and ensuring the team remains at the forefront of innovation.

Technical Strategy & Architecture

· Define and execute the technical roadmap for the PlantPredict and Pro App product suite.

· Guide modernization of legacy components toward scalable, cloud-native architectures.

· Own the end-to-end architecture for PlantPredict and Pro Apps, driving modernization toward scalable, cloud-native systems and ensuring seamless interoperability across Azure and AWS environments.

· Oversee adoption of best practices in CI/CD, code quality, observability, and test automation.

· Partner with data and AI teams to integrate predictive modeling and automation capabilities into applications.

· Maintain architectural consistency across applications while enabling flexibility for innovation.

Product Delivery & Operations

· Manage end-to-end product delivery, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performing releases through disciplined CI/CD, automated testing, and continuous feedback loops.

· Ensure PlantPredict and Pro Apps maintain exceptional uptime, performance, and security.

· Coordinate release schedules, quality gates, and production readiness reviews.

· Implement continuous improvement based on usage data, customer feedback, and business priorities.

· Own technical debt management and long-term maintainability planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

· Partner with Product Management to translate customer needs and roadmap goals into executable plans.

· Collaborate with domain engineering and applications engineering teams to ensure released products and features satisfy intended use cases.

· Align with fellow engineering leads to ensure consistent cloud practices that optimize cost, performance, and reliability.

· Represent the PlantPredict and Pro App engineering organization in strategic planning and executive reviews.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

· 10+ years of experience building and maintaining web applications or SaaS platforms.

· 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams or managing technical leads.

· Proven experience with cloud-based architectures, microservices, and modern frontend frameworks.

· Experience with enterprise or industrial SaaS products — ideally in energy, simulation, or data-driven applications.

Technical Expertise

· Strong technical foundation in modern web development (React, TypeScript, C#/.NET, Python).

· Deep understanding of Azure and/or AWS cloud infrastructure (Functions, API Gateway, Cosmos DB, S3, DynamoDB).

· Experience with API-first design, scalable data models, and multi-tenant architectures.

· Familiarity with performance modeling, analytics, or simulation software.

· Proficiency in CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).

· Experience integrating data visualization, AI insights, or modeling tools into production systems.

Leadership & Soft Skills

· Proven ability to drive product-focused engineering teams toward measurable outcomes.

· Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Demonstrated success balancing innovation, reliability, and delivery speed.

What Success Looks Like

· PlantPredict and Pro App continue to deliver best-in-class performance, reliability, and user satisfaction.

· Deploy PlantPredict 3D infrastructure improvements that supports wide industry adoption

· A culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation within the engineering organization.

Compensation: $170,000 - $210,000 (DOE)

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within each posted range, individual pay is determined (and may be greater or higher), dependent on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Terabase offers competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Generous time off and holiday policy

• Flexible time off

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Career progression

• 401k match

• Stock options

• And much more!

Terabase is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

We do not discriminate for any reason including race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military/ veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, the diverse consumers we represent, and the communities we call home.