Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

⚡About Amber

Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.

We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 80k customers). We have also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK.

Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and E.ON Next.

We are scaling rapidly and you’d be joining a team of over 200 committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture as we transform a major industry.

Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $20/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2026, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

💻 About the role

We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead technology at Amber, reporting to our co-founder and Co-CEO Chris Thompson and joining the executive team.

Our founding CTO built Amber's technology function over seven years and moves on later this year. What started with an MVP built by a couple of engineers is now a global platform supported by a team of around 80 with even more growth to come.

The technology you'd own controls physical assets in tens of thousands of homes and bids them into the National Electricity Market every five minutes. Get a forecast wrong and customers feel it on their bill. It runs in two places: our own retailer in Australia, where we push it hardest, and inside the utility partners overseas who license it. Making one platform serve both properly is the central architectural problem of the next few years.

This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.

Amber is a remote first team; our head office is in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home. The vast majority of our team are located in Melbourne. While we don't expect people to attend the office, we do expect that people mostly work in the Melbourne time zone to maximise collaboration.

💰 Total remuneration will be competitive against peer organisations of similar scale and stage, and contain a substantial equity component.

🌈 If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!

Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

🪄 How to Apply

Please include your resume and a cover letter, and tell us:

• The engineering organisation you're most proud of building, and one technical decision you got badly wrong.

This is a critical role for Amber, so the process will be rigorous. We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit.

We expect to tailor the process and sequence per candidate, but expect roughly the following:

• A screening interview with our talent team
• A conversation with our outgoing CTO
• A conversation with Chris, our co-founder and Co-CEO
• Interviews with peer executives, our Director of Engineering, and a group of our engineers
• A working session on a real Amber technology problem
• A conversation with members of our Board
• A conversation with the direct reports
• In-depth reference checks with former colleagues

Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia with full working rights.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.

No recruitment agencies please. We've got this! Thank you.