Engineering Manager

PEXA; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly wellness days

Four weeks workcation per year

Purchase up to four weeks additional年年

PEXA Academy and career development

Job summary

PEXA in Melbourne is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple squads delivering essential property settlement services. You will guide teams, align engineering plans with product priorities, and ensure delivery remains secure, compliant and reliable.

You won't code daily, but you’ll stay close to technology, drive modernisation, and manage risks with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Design and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering squads across multiple teams.
• Strong ownership of delivery in a complex product environment.
• Technical background with software engineering, cloud or distributed systems knowledge.
• Ability to partner across Product, Design and Engineering and communicate risks.
• Experience using data and delivery insights to improve team performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering squads to deliver critical services.
• Translate business priorities into engineering plans with Product.
• Balance regulatory and delivery commitments with security and compliance.
• Improve system health, reduce technical debt and improve reliability.
• Drive technology modernisation while maintaining stability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to communicate risks.

Skills

Leadership

Delivery ownership

Technical background

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Cloud computing

Distributed systems

AI-assisted development

Job description

Every time a house is bought, sold or refinanced in Australia your lawyer, conveyancer and lender will most likely use a digital platform to settle your property, this is where we come in. PEXA's world-first digital settlement platform has revolutionised the way we exchange property in Australia helping over 20,000 people a week safely settle their homes.

Since starting our journey in 2010, we now employ a team of over 1,000 people working across multiple continents. We're still growing, innovating and looking ahead, but behind our greatest achievements, there is a team of curious creators and big thinkers. That's why, we're looking for ambitious people like yourself to join the team.

A day in the life

As Engineering Manager, your day could involve coaching an engineer, working through priorities with Product, helping a Lead Engineer resolve a technical dependency or giving stakeholders a clear view of delivery progress and risks.

You won't be coding day-to-day, but you'll stay close enough to the technology to ask the right questions and guide decisions about system health, code quality, reliability and technical debt.

You'll help the teams improve how they plan, build and operate software, drawing on data and evolving tools - such as AI-assisted development - where they add value.

Working in a highly regulated environment, you'll balance innovation and delivery commitments with appropriate security, quality and compliance controls.

About the role

You'll be leading multiple engineering squads supporting the technology behind PEXA's property lodgement and financial settlement services. Working closely with Lead Engineers and Product, you'll translate business priorities into clear engineering plans and create the conditions for reliable, sustainable delivery.

These services operate in an environment shaped by multi-jurisdictional regulatory and product change. The role balances the delivery of regulatory and jurisdictional commitments with the reliability and continued evolution of established, business-critical services. You'll also progress technology modernisation while maintaining the stability and performance of the existing platform.

Key capabilities:

• Experience leading, coaching and developing engineers across multiple squads
• Strong ownership of delivery in a complex product or platform environment
• A technical background with a sound understanding of software engineering, cloud or distributed systems, reliability and operational support
• Ability to partner effectively across Product, Design and Engineering, clearly communicating risks, dependencies and trade-offs
• Experience using data, delivery insights and evolving tools to improve engineering effectiveness and team performance

What success looks like (6-12 months):

• Build strong relationships across the squads, establish clear expectations and support the growth and engagement of engineers
• Strengthen delivery planning and improve visibility of progress, capacity, dependencies and risks
• Deliver regulatory and jurisdictional commitments while protecting the reliability and continued evolution of established, business-critical services
• Establish measurable improvements in system health, technical debt, engineering quality and operational risk
• Progress the technology-modernisation journey while balancing investment in the future with the ongoing needs and stability of the existing platform
• Build greater connection, consistency and accountability across distributed teams and delivery partners

A career at PEXA starts with you!

• Quarterly wellness days to recharge
• Four weeks workcation per year - work from an approved country
• Take the opportunity to purchase up to four weeks additional annual leave per year
• Learn from the best and upskill with PEXA Academy and grow your career

Our commitment to our people and a better future

At PEXA we want you to embrace your best self each day, creating an environment where everyone can contribute and participate, so that every person can reach their full potential. We want our people to feel equally valued, supported and celebrated. With market-leading benefits that make a difference, we're committed to supporting individuals, families and carers. Your culture, gender, sexual orientation, language and other attributes make you unique! We couldn't be prouder to have a team that reflects the richness of our wider community.

We're a proudCircle Back Initiative Employer and commit to responding to every applicant.

Stay Connected

A career at PEXA is exciting, challenging and rewarding, and we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join the team. You can learn more about life at PEXA on our website and social channels too.