VP, Engineering

Who We Are 

Arcadia is the technology company empowering energy innovators and consumers to fight the climate crisis. Our software and APIs are revolutionizing an industry held back by outdated systems and institutions by creating unprecedented access to the data and clean energy needed to make a decarbonized energy grid possible.

In 2014, Arcadia set out on its mission to break the fossil fuel monopoly and since then we have been knocking down the institutional barriers to unlock decarbonization.  To date, we have connected hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses with high-quality clean energy options. Fast forward to today, and now, we’re thinking even bigger.  We have launched Arcadia Platform, an industry-defining SaaS platform that empowers developers and energy innovators to deliver their own custom, personalized energy experiences, accelerating the transformation of the industry from an analog energy system into a digitized information network.

Tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges requires out-of-the-box thinking & diverse perspectives. We’re building a team of individuals from different backgrounds, industries, & educational experiences. If you share our passion for ushering in the era of the clean electron, we look forward to learning what you would uniquely bring to Arcadia!

What we’re looking for:

We are seeking a technology and performance-driven VP, Engineering to evolve and lead Arcadia’s Energy Data Platform engineering team. This includes owning the software stack, architecture, development process, and engineering team & culture. This highly visible leadership role will be responsible for working cross-functionally to rapidly build new products, better integrate and upgrade existing systems, modernize the architecture, support customers, and implement AI across all products. This leader will own front-end, back-end, and foundational/SRE engineering.

We are looking for someone with experience transforming engineering organizations in fast-growth B2B organizations serving traditional industries such as healthcare, energy, manufacturing/supply chain, and telecom.

This role will report to the Head of Product & Engineering as the leader for all global engineering. They will immediately assume leadership of a talented 100+-person engineering department across the US and India, and must be based in the United States. We are expanding our market leadership position in the clean energy transition with new products and capabilities, and are looking for a VP, Engineering who can accelerate that through performance, modern technology, and culture. The leadership team is in Washington DC, so there is a requirement of travel 1x/month to meet with the team.

What you’ll do:

• Mentor and guide engineering leads to design and deliver on their roadmaps per deadlines and quality standards
• Uphold and further build upon a strong, progressive engineering culture that values – among other things – performance, technical ownership, creativity, and accountability; cultivate an environment that spawns innovation and speed, surfaces the best ideas, and attracts & retains top talent     
• Partner with executive leaders and other stakeholders to establish company strategy & roadmaps; collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities, manage expectations, and escalate engineering considerations and contingencies
• Lead delivery of all new products, features, and applications across all of Arcadia’s current and future platforms
• Ensure systems infrastructure scales to appropriately support development activity and rapid product adoption
• Strategically evaluate, recommend, and successfully introduce new technologies & software development practices and methodologies, including AI
• Demonstrate, coach, recognize, advocate for, invest in, and demand technical excellence
• Deliver results in the fast pace of a growing startup with the highest quality standards focused on customer value creation
• Design, recruit and empower a team of mission-driven engineers

What will help you succeed:

Must-haves:

• Experience leading B2B products in hard/complex industries such as energy, healthcare, manufacturing/supply chain
• A track record of driving urgency and speed in your teams through inspiration, coaching, and accountability
• Prior experience building and leading large, cohesive, highly productive engineering teams across multiple functions
• Prior experience leading teams that built data products and data pipelines, using modern cloud technology solutions (Snowflake, Databricks, AI, etc)
• Prior experience in a VP, Engineering or equivalent role, but still involved in day-to-day architecture decisions and delivery execution
• Extensive experience managing teams building highly complex products spanning multiple existing platforms and services (e.g., acquired through M&A)
• Experience managing teams building cloud-based services
• Indisputable technical chops; you’ve advanced or made notable contributions to the developer community during your career, and your domain expertise motivates & sets the standard for the people you lead
• Acute business acumen, both breadth & depth when it comes to understanding a business, and the ability and inherent desire to make technical decisions within the larger context of company objectives
• Decisiveness; when making technical decisions, you carefully weigh trade-offs between functionality, quality, and technical debt, and lead the team to quickly set a path forward and execute against it
• Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for our mission, sustainability, and helping drive a clean-energy future
• Prior experience managing a distributed, remote, and global workforce
• Prior experience with our tech stack, which includes Java, Snowflake/DBT, Python, React, and MySQL. Our infrastructure is primarily AWS-based.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience implementing AI systems, especially using Generative AI
• Experience in the energy industry

Benefits:

• "Remote first" culture - work anywhere in the US as long as you have a reliable internet connection
• Flexible PTO - no accrued hours and no limit on the number of vacation days exempt employees can take each year
• 17 annual company-wide holidays including a week long "summer break"
• 10 days sick leave
• Up to 4 weeks bereavement leave
• 2 volunteer days off
• 2 professional development days off
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents
• 80-95% employer cost coverage for medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents

Thank you