Engineering Manager

We’re supercharging the clean economy:

Crux is the capital markets platform changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers unlock financing through all stages of project development and operation.

Our team of 40+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing:

Energy demand is growing for the first time in 20 years, driven by surging manufacturing, transportation, electrification, and data centers. Simultaneously, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in domestic supply chains for critical minerals and components. Developers and manufacturers will require trillions of dollars in capital to meet growing needs.

Unfortunately, the capital markets supporting this transformation remain opaque, fragmented, and complex. At Crux, we recognized the missing infrastructure: a central capital markets platform designed specifically for the next century of American energy and industry. By connecting counterparties, providing market intelligence, and streamlining transactions, we unlock faster decision making, lower cost of capital, and accelerated investment.

About The Role

The traditional process for transacting tax credits is manual & onerous. We’ve built a product that solves parts of that problem but now need to expand its breadth & depth in a rigorous, analytical way. We’re excited to add an experienced engineering manager to support these efforts! As our first engineering manager hire, we are looking for someone with a product mindset who is equally skilled at hands-on engineering as well as coaching/mentoring engineers across all levels. Reporting to our head of engineering, this individual’s main responsibility is to support the growth and scaling of our entire engineering organization.

About The Team

We are an experienced and highly collaborative group of ten engineers that has prioritized team diversity from the beginning. Our tech stack is composed of Typescript, React, SQL, built on top of Vercel and Supabase PaaS/BaaS. Our early AIOps stack includes Python, LangChain, and Trigger.dev. We value curiosity, open-mindedness, humility, and flexibility. Given the complexity of our domain, we look for folks who are deeply motivated to learn and do not hesitate to ask questions. We take psychological safety and inclusion seriously, and actively encourage sharing lots of ideas and opinions - it’s how we do our best work!

What you’ll do

• Support the growth and scale of our engineering team

• Partner with the head of engineering to scale technical quality and maturity of our technology; ensure delivery of high impact product and platform features

• Hire, onboard, develop and retain engineers; identify growth and coaching opportunities for ICs while upholding a culture of psychological safety and inclusion

• Partner with cross-functional teams in order to best understand and exceed customer expectations; compile internal and external stakeholder input in order to best shape engineering roadmaps

• Shape and lead engineering learning and coworking sessions, and act as a technical subject matter expert to our entire engineering team

• Lead by example to strengthen our team culture: perpetuate kind/collaborative/opinionated communication, encourage urgency and poise under pressure, jump in to help engineers out with things that may or may not be one of your core responsibilities

• Partner with the head of engineering and other senior/staff technical teammates on the development of our technical best practices

Who you are

• 4+ years of engineering leadership experience in dynamic/startup environments; affinity for coaching, motivating, empowering engineers from early career to staff level

• 4+ years of hands-on individual contributor engineering experience; skilled at rapid iteration and delivering meaningful technical feedback

• B.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

• Demonstrated track record of hiring, retaining, scaling remote teams through equitable and inclusive processes

• Operates seamlessly in fast paced often-ambiguous environments; views complex domain challenges as ‘fun’ opportunities

• Reliable and experienced cross functional partner to product and design, as well as other business functions

• Committed to delivering value to our customers; views building technology through the lens of our customers and other external stakeholders

• Authorized to work in the US or Canada

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $230,000-$270,000 USD

• Company wide bonus tied to revenue goals

• Stock options

• Full health benefits, 20 days PTO, 10 company holidays

This is a fully remote role, with opportunities to co-work in SF, Seattle, DC, or NYC.

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.