Senior Engineering Manager

<p>We’re hipages, Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting homeowners with trusted tradies. As an ASX-listed tech company, we're on a mission to transform the trade industry and improve lives.</p> <p>With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose.</p> <p>We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.</p> <p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a portfolio of high-performing software teams across a meaningful domain of the hipages marketplace. Leading through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, you’ll be accountable for people, delivery, technical health, and business outcomes across multiple squads.</p> <p>This is a role for a leader who operates beyond the single-team level. You’ll set technical and delivery direction, develop the leaders beneath you, and connect engineering execution to commercial strategy. You’ll help your teams build reliable, high-quality systems that are well-prioritised, operationally sound, and continuously improving.</p> <p>You’ll also play a key role in shaping how engineering works in an AI-native world. You’ll treat agentic engineering, AI-augmented delivery, and evolving team models as core levers for how your domain operates, not as side experiments.</p> <p><strong>Why join our Engineering team?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Hybrid working model &nbsp;</li> <li>In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth</li> <li>Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program &nbsp;</li> <li>Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams</li> <li>The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>How you will add value:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality. &nbsp;</li> <li>Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards. &nbsp;</li> <li>Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.&nbsp;</li> <li>Partner with senior Product and Design peers to shape domain strategy, challenge scope and sequencing, and ensure engineering effort is invested where it creates the greatest customer and commercial impact. &nbsp;</li> <li>Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes. &nbsp;</li> <li>Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery. &nbsp;</li> <li>Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain. &nbsp;</li> <li>Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.</li> <li>Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities. &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>About you:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.&nbsp;</li> <li>Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework. &nbsp;</li> <li>Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations. &nbsp;</li> <li>Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you. &nbsp;</li> <li>You have navigated, or are actively navigating, the shift to AI-augmented engineering and understand how AI changes team shape, throughput expectations, and engineering craft. &nbsp;</li> <li>You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying. &nbsp;</li> <li>You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes. &nbsp;</li> <li>You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly. &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Life at hipages:&nbsp;</strong><br><br>We’re more than just a workplace. We’re a place where you can be yourself, do great work and grow your career. Recognised as a Great Place to Work, our inclusive, supportive culture helps people thrive.<br><br>You’ll use the best tools and tech, with real impact on our products and customers. We invest in your development and lead with coaching, not micromanagement. It’s why 85% of our team say their leader is great.<br><br>And there’s more:</p> <ul> <li>Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems &nbsp;</li> <li>Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows &nbsp;</li> <li>Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more &nbsp;</li> <li>Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit &nbsp;</li> <li>Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations &nbsp;</li> <li>Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects &nbsp;</li> <li>A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it</li> </ul> <p><strong>We prioritise Diversity:</strong></p> <p>At hipages, innovation and collaboration thrive in diverse and inclusive teams. We don’t expect you to know everything - we care more about who you are as a person, a team member, and a leader.</p> <p>We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 for supporting women’s careers and we value diversity across culture, age, gender identity and sexual orientation.</p> <p>Research shows that men often apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and minority groups wait until they tick every box. If you think you’d be a great fit - even if you don’t meet every requirement - we’d love to hear from you.</p> <p>We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.</p> <p>#LI-JL1 #LI-Hybrid</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ntj8ttXP88s" width="560" height="314"></iframe></p>