Engineering Manager (Platform Enablement)

About Us

Leap’s mission is to combat climate change by enabling a reliable electric grid that runs on clean energy. The electric grid is transforming from dirty (but predictable) fossil fuels to clean (but less predictable) renewable energy. To do so, the grid needs more flexible demand and supply to help maintain stability and reliability.

Our platform helps technology providers unlock new revenue streams and deliver more value to their storage, electric vehicle, and smart building customers by connecting them to energy programs that support the grid. We empower our partners and their customers to help create a more flexible, resilient grid powered by renewable resources.

Leap is a privately-held tech company with funding from top VCs and well-known energy entrepreneurs. We are a remote distributed workplace with teammates based in Europe and North America.

Overview

We’re seeking an Engineering Manager for Team Platform Enablement. This will give you the opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, maximizing efficiency and productivity while ensuring consistent delivery against targets. While doing this, you make sure the atmosphere in the team is good, people feel safe and have fun together.

Key Responsibilities

• Balance hands-on engineering with dedicated people management. Drive professional growth through mentorship, regular feedback, and resolving technical or organizational blockers.
• Manage team capacity and align engineering efforts with roadmap goals, ensuring a smooth flow of value.
• Influence the technical roadmap based on team insights and maintain high engineering standards, promoting a culture of knowledge sharing and psychological safety.
• Advocate for and implement the use of AI-powered tooling.
• Communicate with other teams like Product, Platform Operations, Partner Success, Partner Enablement & Growth, and other engineering teams.
• Manage communications and contracts with external vendors where necessary.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) with repeatability, security, and scalability in mind.
• Operate and improve Kubernetes clusters, ensuring availability, resilience, and performance of applications running in production.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable solutions, review architecture, and provide guidance on DevOps and SRE best practices.
• Ensure security and compliance across environments, including IAM, network policies, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with AWS, including core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code patterns
• Expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster operations, manifests, Helm, and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated passion for integrating AI tooling into the development lifecycle, as an early adopter who helps to drive engineering innovation
• Ability to make difficult technical trade-offs that prioritize outcomes for Leap and Leap’s partners and rapid iteration over perfection
• Conflict resolution skills with a focus on team success over individual wins
• On-site 1 day a week minimum in the Utrecht office & ability to overlap with U.S. time zones