Engineering Manager - Hybrid

At Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.

We’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.

You’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.

Transparency at every level: Monthly Allhands meetings share key company metrics, updates, and customer stories. We also spotlight a team member’s “Life Story” each month - it’s one of the ways we stay connected as a global team.

High velocity, low friction: Our systems are modern and fully integrated, so you’ll spend your time solving problems - not fighting tools.

Performance-driven growth: Seven of our last ten pay increases were made proactively, based on impact and results.

True flexibility: We focus on outcomes, not hours. You’ll have autonomy to manage your time and work where you perform best - with no time monitoring or unnecessary meetings.

Collaboration: You’ll work closely with other teams - engineering, product, design, marketing, and customer success - to move fast and deliver meaningful results.

Sydney HQ perks - rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers, and cycle storage in Haymarket

Melbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms, opposite Southern Cross station

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Sitemate welcomes people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities, and abilities.

55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, 43% identify as female, and our team spans ages 22–51. We believe our diversity makes us stronger - and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

🎧 Podcasts:

2024: CEO Hartley Pike on scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture

2023: CMO Lance Hodgson on accelerating your career

2022: CTO Tim Bray on building quality features that solve real customer problems

💬 Want to know what it’s like to work at Sitemate? Hear it straight from the team : People of Sitemate ⭐ Read what our customers say: G2 Crowd , Trust Radius 🎥 Team Offsites: 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025

You'll have direct reports. You'll run 1:1s, progress Sitemate Development Plans and competency matrix levels, set goals, give feedback, and handle performance issues directly. You'll also plan sprint capacity, make sure work is broken into milestones with estimates, track progress, and surface risk before it becomes a problem.

You need to be technical enough to be credible. You should be able to follow a design discussion, sense when an estimate is off, and know when "it's nearly done" isn't. You are not expected to own architecture, but you are expected to know when to pull the Tech Lead in.

Forward Deployed Engineering. Teams work closer to customers and ship in tighter loops. Your job is to make sure engineers have real customer signal in front of them, and that the process supports fast iteration rather than adding ceremony to it.

Agentic Engineering. AI is changing what a team of a given size can deliver, which changes how you plan, estimate, and sequence work. You'll need to hold the process standards that keep quality high as throughput goes up, in partnership with the Tech Lead who sets the technical bar.

Plan and manage sprint or cycle capacity, making sure engineers have clear, well-sequenced work broken into milestones with estimates.

Track delivery progress and surface risk or slippage early, rather than waiting for things to go wrong.

Act as the primary escalation path when engineers are stuck, and remove blockers before they stall delivery.

Run regular 1:1s, progress SDPs and competency matrix levels, set goals, and give consistent feedback.

Manage performance issues directly and constructively.

Hold the line on engineering process standards such as test coverage, PR quality, and deployment practices, in partnership with the Tech Lead.

Communicate delivery status to stakeholders proactively, and act as the focal point for communication into the engineering team.

Stay aligned with the PDM on priorities, sequencing, and any scope or delivery trade-offs.

Escalate to the PGM when decisions or resources sit beyond the team's control.

Shared accountability. Delivery is shared with the PDM and technical direction sits with the Tech Lead. You'll get results through influence and close collaboration far more than through direct control.

People and delivery pull in opposite directions. Some weeks the sprint wins, some weeks the person does. Judging which is a large part of the job.

Pace. Fast-Tracked is a real operating value, so you'll need to balance speed with quality and sustainable delivery for your team.

Distributed teams across Australia, UK, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Canada. Time zones and async communication are part of the role, not an edge case.

Organisational maturity. Engineering leadership, frameworks, and career ladders are still being established, so you'll be building the plane while flying it.

You've managed engineers before, or you've been a Tech Lead or Senior engineer already doing the job unofficially and want to make it official.

You get more satisfaction from a team shipping well than from being the one who shipped it.

You have difficult conversations early rather than letting things drift.

You're technical enough to be credible with engineers and to smell a bad estimate.

You're comfortable owning an outcome jointly with someone else and not needing the final say on everything.

You're drawn to real-world impact. Our users build wind farms, highways, and mines in 100+ countries.

You want to shape how an engineering org works through our next phase of growth, not inherit someone else's playbook.

You want to own architecture and technical direction. That sits with the Tech Lead here. If that's what you're after, the Engineering Tech Lead role is the better fit.

You want coding to remain the main part of your job. Managers can stay hands-on at the edges, but this is not an IC role.

You want full Engineering Manager scope with unilateral control over people, process, delivery, and technology. Ours is deliberately narrower.

You manage from a dashboard. This role needs someone in the detail with their team.

You avoid performance conversations or route them straight to HR.

You want a mature engineering org with a VP of Engineering, established ladders, and defined management frameworks already in place. We're building that, which is the opportunity if you want to shape it and a mismatch if you need it to already exist.

Experience in a scale-up or high-growth product environment

Experience managing distributed or multi-timezone teams

Hands-on background in TypeScript, Node.js, Angular or React, MongoDB, or AWS

Experience improving engineering process such as sprint cadence, release process, or on-call

Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows

Jira or an equivalent planning and tracking tool

Confluence or equivalent documentation practice

TypeScript / JavaScript

AWS

Observability tooling (HyperDX, Datadog, Bugsnag, Sentry)

AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)

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