Engineering Manager

Jumbo Interactive; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive program

Employee Assistance Program

Career growth programs

On-site chefs (Brisbane)

Global remote work up to 120 days/year

Social and diversity events

Novated Leasing

Parental leave: 14 weeks primary, 4 in

Job summary

Jumbo Interactive is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Team Handy, a five-person cross-functional group (Frontend, Backend, QA and Android) on the Jumbo Lottery platform. You’ll guide technical direction while contributing to code, shaping solutions and reviewing work.

The role covers architecture, delivery rhythm, and a roadmap around 12 weeks, with AI-assisted tooling and a strong emphasis on quality and collaboration with product and delivery partners.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software development experience at a senior-engineer level.
• Ability to understand complex codebases and become a subject-matter expert.
• Experience designing scalable solutions and applying engineering best practices at scale.
• Experience with databases and SQL; strong data-schema knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a small engineering team, setting direction for planning, delivery and improvements.
• Contribute patches, review code, and deepen understanding of the platform.
• Collaborate with a business analyst and product designer to define technical specs and designs.
• Maintain a practical delivery rhythm with retrospectives and continuous improvement.
• Help define a stable 12-week roadmap and manage risks and trade-offs.
• Advocate AI-assisted tools in development workflows and code review.
• Make architectural decisions and assess feasibility for DB/schema changes.
• Coach engineers and support career development and performance management.

Skills

Senior engineer

Code review

AI in development

Technical leadership

Planning & prioritisation

Communication

Agile delivery

Tools

React

TypeScript

Go

PHP

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

Over 30 years, we've grown from a single computer into a global, ASX-listed, technology-enabled lottery and prize draw group, with operations across Australia, the UK, Canada and the USA. Today, our technology and services power government and charity lottery programs, while our consumer brands connect millions of customers with life-changing prizes.

We're still growing and evolving, with new businesses, markets and opportunities changing how we operate at global scale. That means the people who do their best work here are comfortable with ambiguity, think laterally, take real ownership of their work, and adapt well to change.

What will you be doing?

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Team Handy, a five-person cross-functional team (Front End, Backend, QA and Android) working on the Jumbo Lottery platform. Reporting to one of our Principal Engineering Managers, you'll oversee the technical direction of the team's deliverables and continuation of its roadmap objectives. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you'll lead the team while contributing directly to the codebase, shaping solutions, and reviewing technical work.

The team works across a variety of product initiatives, including, recently, ticket purchasing and bulk ticket purchasing and a frequent flyer integration.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

• Lead and support a small engineering team, setting the direction for how it plans, delivers, and improves its work.
• Stay close to the code by contributing patches, reviewing code, and building a deep understanding of the platform and your domain.
• Work with a business analyst and product designer to develop technical specifications and solution designs for roadmap problems.
• Build and maintain a practical delivery rhythm, including retrospectives and continuous improvement.
• Help shape a more stable roadmap to maintain around 12 weeks of planned work for the team.
• Use artificial intelligence‑assisted tools, including Claude Code, for activities such as work shaping, sprint planning, code and architectural research, patching, and code review.
• Drive technical quality through sound solution design, engineering practices, and clear communication.
• Make architectural decisions and assess technical feasibility, including for database and data‑schema changes.
• Partner with Delivery Lead and Business Analyst to clarify team outcomes, identify delivery impediments early, and manage delivery risks and trade-offs.
• Coach engineers' career development, give regular feedback, and support the team to build the skills needed to deliver and support its systems.
• Support resource planning, hiring, and performance‑management activities.

What Success Looks Like

In your first six to nine months, you'll build a deep understanding of the Jumbo Lottery platform and become a subject‑matter expert in your domain. You'll be an active technical contributor who can assess and improve solution designs, review code, and help Team Handy deliver its roadmap with a practical, forward‑looking plan of work.

What You’ll Be Able to Bring to the Role

• Hands‑on software development experience, including operating at a senior‑engineer level.
• The technical depth to gain a strong understanding of a complex codebase and become a subject‑matter expert in a software domain.
• Experience designing solutions and applying engineering best practices at scale.
• Experience working with databases and data schemas; structured query language experience is relevant regardless of flavour.
• The ability to assess, review, and contribute production‑quality code rather than leading solely through people management.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with product and delivery partners.
• Thoughtful, practical perspectives on using artificial intelligence in software development workflows.
• Effective planning and prioritisation skills.
• Experience working with Agile delivery approaches, such as Scrum or Kanban, and project‑management tools.

Jumbo's engineering stack includes React and TypeScript on the front end, and Go and PHP on the back end, alongside Docker and PostgreSQL. You'll work in an Agile environment that uses continuous integration and continuous delivery, test automation, and code‑quality practices. Deep experience in every technology is not required: if you bring strong technical depth and hands‑on experience in another stack, you'll be able to adapt quickly.

Currently, team Handy has a Wednesday Connect Day and uses Scrum practices, while adapting its delivery approach to the work at hand. As Engineering Manager, you'll have scope to set the tone for the team's ways of working, with retrospectives and continuous improvement expected.

Salary Banding:

A$150,000 - A$185,000 + Super

Our Ways of Working

At Jumbo, we value balance and flexibility. Based in Milton, Brisbane, and working out of our Head Office, our hybrid working model combines in‑office collaboration (three days per week) with WFH work (two days per week). We also offer flexible working hours, with core collaboration times from 10 AM to 2 PM.

Why Join Jumbo?

Working at Jumbo comes with some genuine perks. Here's what you can expect:

• A short-term incentive program that rewards your contributions, dependent on the company's performance
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, providing counselling and coaching
• Award‑winning talent management programs for career growth and skill‑building
• On‑site chefs (Brisbane) offering fresh, gourmet lunches daily and breakfast twice a week
• The freedom to work from almost anywhere in the world for up to 120 days a year
• A social culture, with activities like lunchtime chess, Jumbo band, corporate games, an indoor rock climbing group, Friday socials, and events celebrating diversity and inclusion
• Novated Leasing - Origin 360 EV Program
• Generous parental leave: 14 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 4 weeks for partners

Candidates who are offered a position will be required to complete pre‑employment checks through our partner, Checkmate.

We are a 2026 Circle Back Initiative Gold Employer; we commit to responding to every applicant.

As part of our recruitment process, we may use AI tools at various stages. AI supports our hiring teams; it doesn't make any hiring decisions; every decision is made by a person. If a stage of the process for this role involves AI, we'll let you know.