Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Growth for D2C

King River Capital Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Cover Genius is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a 5–6 person team building and operating the software behind RentalCover.com and TravelCover.com. You will drive the technical foundation of our D2C digital experience, accelerating user acquisition, conversion, retention and revenue growth.

You'll mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and contribute code across PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/React stacks while collaborating with Product, Marketing and Data teams to hit ambitious

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 7+ years of software engineering experience and at least 3 years in engineering leadership roles.
• Strong backend and frontend expertise ideally in PHP/Laravel, React, TypeScript with building and operating APIs and services with high quality bars (testing, CI/CD, security, performance).
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software architecture design, API development and implementing monitoring and observability solutions for complex distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise across the growth engineering stack: technical SEO, ad tracking and analytics integrations (Google Ads, GA etc), and site performance optimisation.
• Fluent with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, or similar) - you've integrated them into real workflows, not just experimented.
• Working understanding of LLMs beyond code generation: prompt engineering, context management, and knowing when AI adds value vs. traditional code.
• Experience with modern software development practices including AI tooling, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, code quality tools. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), managing workloads in Kubernetes is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of developing and scaling customer‑facing web applications is highly valuable, particularly within the fast‑paced insurance technology or fintech domains.

Responsibilities

• Own technical execution and delivery for all applications across the direct-to-consumer domain (RentalCover.com and TravelCover.com), ensuring they meet business, performance and security requirements.
• Deliver the technical capability behind our growth agenda - user acquisition, conversion, retention and revenue expansion working from the roadmap through to measurable outcomes.
• Drive technical excellence through engineering best practices, quality standards and sound architectural principles, backed by metrics that improve efficiency, code quality and system reliability.
• Build a team culture of innovation, continuous learning and collaborative problem solving.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Infrastructure, and Data & AI teams across timezones to deliver on our vision of building the world's best technology and insights platform for embedded insurance.
• Identify and integrate emerging technologies - including AI tooling - that lift team productivity, quality and velocity while creating competitive advantage.

Skills

Backend/Frontend stack

PHP/Laravel

React

TypeScript

APIs & services

CI/CD & testing

Security & performance

AI tooling integration

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor/Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

AI coding tools

Job description

Cover Genius is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a 5–6 person team building and operating the software behind RentalCover.com and TravelCover.com. You will drive the technical foundation of our D2C digital experience, accelerating user acquisition, conversion, retention and revenue growth.

You'll mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and contribute code across PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/React stacks while collaborating with Product, Marketing and Data teams to hit ambitious