Senior Engineering Manager

Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality.

Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards.

Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.

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.

Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.

Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery.

Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain.

Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.

Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities.

6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.

Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework.

Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations.

Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you.

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.

You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying.

You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes.

You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly.

Life at hipages: 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. 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. And there’s more:

Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems

Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows

Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more

Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit

Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations

Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects

A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it

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.

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.

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.

We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.

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