Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

<p>Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone.</p> <p>With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified <strong>Great Place to Work</strong> and <strong>WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women</strong>. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.</p> <p>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</p> <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>&nbsp;</p> <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 recommendat

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