Engineer Manager - iOS

Procreate; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Procreate is seeking an Engineering Manager to guide a small team in delivering mission-critical features and improving development efficiency. The role blends leadership with hands-on coding, ensuring engineering remains sharp while aligning with business priorities.

You will report to the CTO, collaborate across departments, and help plan product development with a focus on sustainability and scale. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Australia (Sydney/Hobart).

Qualifications

• Emotional intelligence and a calm, self-assured leadership style.
• Experience as an Engineering Manager in a tech, product or creative company.
• Experience with Swift and iOS.
• Good technical judgement and a track record of technically grounded decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate and align engineering functions.
• Collaborate with design to plan and organise feature development for sustainability and efficiency.
• Provide feedback and participate in reviews and performance management.
• Hands-on engineering will be 40-60% of the role; maintain coding skills.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Team leadership

Swift

iOS

Technical judgement

Communication skills

Job description

We’re looking for our a dedicated Engineering Manager to help lead teams in pursuit of our ambitious product roadmap. We're driven by the desire to deliver the best creative software experience for our global community.

You’ll have deep technical experience as well as ability in progressive people management. You'll guide a small team of engineers to develop and ship mission critical features, solve complex technical problems, improve development efficiency and nurture our internal engineering talent.

The role

The role sits within our product development team, and you’ll report to Michael Shaw, our CTO. You'll work closely with the engineering team, the executive and members of other departments to align engineering with other critical business functions.

What you'll do

• Lead, coordinate and align engineering functions.
• Work closely with design to help plan and organise development of features to improve sustainability and efficiency in our development process.
• Deliver feedback and take part in reviews and performance management.
• Hands-on engineering will be 40-60% of the role - we need an Engineering Manager that enjoys coding and wants to keep their engineering skills sharp.

Required Skills

• Emotional intelligence and a calm, self-assured leadership style. You’ll have a demonstrated ability to manage and build diverse teams. Your approach to leadership and management will build consensus and understanding. You’ll be able to communicate technical information to a diverse set of non-technical employees. You’ll motivate, inspire and support your colleagues to produce the best work of their lives.
• Experience as an Engineering Manager in a technology, product or creative company. You’ll have had experience in engineering at a senior level and/or people management experience in a tech or start-up environment. You bring an organised, methodical and detail-oriented approach to your work which provides structure and promotes confidence in those you work with. Your work will draw the best out of each individual contributor in a way which promotes both individual success and engagement as well as team productivity.
• Experience with Swift and iOS.
• Good technical judgement and a track record of making technically grounded decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with diverse languages that have alternate paradigms to Swift (Haskell/C/Rust).

What to expect in the first 6-12 months

• Complete the Procreate onboarding process and get to know your colleagues.
• Build an understanding of our product development practices, processes and frameworks.
• Begin to develop relationships with key stakeholders, team leaders and members of the executive team.
• Prepare and support the execution of core features
• Play your part in shipping products.

We want to hear from you

We’d love to hear about how you see yourself contributing to Procreate in this role. Please note, we're looking for full-time and on-site employees for our Hobart or Sydney office.