Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers through regular feedback, performance guidance, and career development.
• Create a high-performing, psychologically safe team environment built on collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
• Manage task allocation, workload balancing, and on-call rotations.
• Mediate and resolve team or technical conflicts with empathy and clarity.
• Own the technical quality of your team’s work, ensuring high standards for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Guide code quality, design principles, and best practices across the team.
• Manage and prioritise technical debt to support long-term platform health.
• Lead complex code reviews and technical decision-making when needed.
• Champion automation to improve velocity and reduce toil.
• Own the team’s delivery model (e.g. Kanban or Scrum) and execution against quarterly goals.
• Facilitate team cadences including planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives — always with clear purpose.
• Continuously improve team processes, estimation, testing practices, and documentation.
• Lead effective incident response, post-mortems, and root-cause analysis.
• Act as a key communication bridge between Engineering and Product, Customer Success, Sales, and other teams.
• Partner with Product Managers to define scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria for high-value work.
• Ensure the backlog is prioritised based on customer impact, technical needs, and business strategy.
• Protect the team from unnecessary scope creep while balancing time-to-market trade-offs.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years’ experience in software engineering, with 2–4+ years leading engineers as an Engineering Manager or Senior Tech Lead.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to guide architecture, code quality, and sound engineering trade-offs.
• Proven experience delivering predictable outcomes across multiple quarters in an agile environment.
• Comfortable owning team delivery, backlog prioritisation, and ways of working (e.g. Kanban or Scrum).
• Confident people leader with experience in coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Experienced in cross-functional collaboration, partnering closely with Product and other stakeholders.
• Calm and decisive under pressure, including incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Empathetic, accountable, and pragmatic — able to balance team health, technical excellence, and business impact.
• Some experience with C#, .NET, Typescript and Azure is preferred.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• TypeScript
• .NET

Benefits

• Getting to work closely with Product and Design to shape meaningful outcomes.
• Influence how engineering scales in a growing, ambitious business building technology that makes a difference.
• You will have the opportunity to truly own your craft with autonomy.
• Make a visible impact.
• The genuine opportunity to thrive personally and professionally in a supportive, collaborative environment that values balance and wellbeing.
• We invest in our teams’ well-being and professional development with support that includes paid mental health days off, an EAP, annual individual professional and personal growth funding.
• Flexibility to work in a hybrid setup.
• A culture that values curiosity, innovation, and doing great work together to achieve collective success.