Engineering Manager

Our client is building the future of construction & property SaaS tech in Australia that simplifies operations within the industry.

Why This Role Matters

As the Engineering Manager responsible for a team of 10+ (still hiring/growing) across full stack, frontend, backend and QA, you’ll shape the architecture, reliability, and evolution of our platform as we scale. You won’t just ship code as a hands-on Engineering Manager — you’ll define, own and communicate the technical roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the product and business goals.

What you'll do

• Define, own and communicate the technical roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the product and business goals.
• Establish & maintain engineering best practices around architecture, code quality, documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Lead the integration of AI into development practices and continuously evaluate the technology stack for innovation and efficiency.
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Manage technical debt proactively to safeguard future product velocity.

What success looks like

• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, including strategic third parties, fostering a high-performant and ownership-driven culture.
• Design a scalable team structure, defining clear roles, accountability, and pathways for career growth, coaching technical leads and individual contributors to grow into leadership.
• Design and build the engineering team with the next phase of our growth and team structure in mind.
• Implement and optimize agile delivery processes — sprint planning, retrospectives, and release management.
• Establish and track engineering KPIs (velocity, quality, uptime, deployment frequency, etc.).
• Ensure features are shipped on time with high coding standards, effective testing, and reliable deployment processes.
• Support teams in problem-solving and decision-making to remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum

What we’re looking for

• Experience as an Engineering Manager scaling teams within a tech or SaaS start/scale-up business
• Strong technical foundation with ability to make architectural decisions.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Strong hands-on technical skills in .NET, .NET Core and modern front-end frameworks (Angular or React) + TypeScript & Node.js
• Extensive Azure cloud experience
• Experience in AI-assisted development
• Manage on-shore and off-shore teams (Australia, India and Philippines)
• Skilled in setting up and scaling engineering processes.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Comfortable collaborating with executive peers on strategy and planning.
• A mindset of ownership, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

Location & work style

Hybrid role based in Melbourne, with flexibility to work from home.

💡 Why Join Us

• Be part of a fast-growing SaaS company making a real impact.
• Work with a small, passionate team that values simplicity, autonomy, and trust.
• Experiment with AI tools in a real production environment.
• Shape the engineering culture — not just follow it.

There is a great remuneration package on offer + ESOP, so hit that apply button or reach out to me directly at [email protected] if you have any specific question before applying