Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Cover Genius; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Employee stock options

CG Gives program

Wellness day

Job summary

Cover Genius is seeking an Engineering Manager for Developer Experience in Sydney. Hybrid work, leading a team that builds tools, platforms, and processes for developers to move fast with confidence and security.

You will gather requirements, track metrics, and improve the developer experience across security, infra, and application teams, owning internal tooling and a central catalog of services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, platform engineering or devops experience including leadership.
• Delivery leadership and product partnership skills with measurable outcomes.
• Experience in building AI agentic systems to automate complex workflows.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Gitlab Pipelines, ArgoCD/Argo Workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing Developer Experience team through hiring and coaching.
• Act as product manager for internal developer tools and platforms.
• Design and maintain a shared set of tools, libraries, and CI/CD templates.
• Collaborate with Infra, Security and App teams to improve developer experience.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Product partnership

AI agentic systems

Customer-centric mindset

Tools

Gitlab Pipelines

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Backstage

Confluence

Job description

Engineering Manager, Developer Experience Cover Genius Sydney, NSW, AU

Job Description

Overview

Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Job type: Full Time · Department: Engineering - 102 · Work type: Hybrid

About the Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world's largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We're also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia's largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular "CG Gives" which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not: Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

Role Summary

As a Manager of the Developer Experience team, you will build and lead a team which builds, improves and maintains the tools, platforms and processes we use, enabling our developers to build with speed, confidence and security. To drive success in this role, you will have a customer oriented mindset and a track record of mentoring engineers and building high-performing engineering teams.

You will act as a product manager and engineering lead for our internal platforms, treating other engineers as your customers. You will gather requirements from developers, track key metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE), and continuously improve the developer experience. Regular collaboration with infrastructure, security and application engineering teams will be key in driving measurable improvements in the entire developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a high-performing team through hiring and coaching. Set a high bar for quality and ownership.
• Act as a product manager for developer experience by gathering data through proactive outreach, developer surveys, and tracking key metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE).
• Integrate Agentic AI workflows across the software development lifecycle, orchestrating autonomous multi-agent systems to handle automated code reviews, intelligent test generation, and context gathering, moving beyond standard code-completion tools.
• Design, build, and maintain a shared "golden path" of tools and services, including shared libraries (e.g., logging, SSO), base images (Python, Node, PHP), CI/CD templates, and application Helm charts, in partnership with the infrastructure team.
• Build automation and internal tooling to solve developer pain points, reduce toil, and streamline the entire develop-build-test iteration loop.
• Own and manage developer-centric tools and vendors, including our source code repositories, artifact registries, internal documentation platforms, and AI development platforms.
• Build and maintain a central catalog of services, components, and standards to improve discoverability, governance, and onboarding.
• Integrate and automate security tooling (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA) into the entire application lifecycle to create a secure software supply chain, in partnership with the Security team.
• Provide documentation, training, and support for our internal platform tools and services to drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering, platform engineering or devops experience, including at least 2 years leading or managing engineering teams, with a proven track record of building and shipping high-quality software.
• Delivery leadership and product partnership skills: ability to plan, execute, and communicate against measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated expertise in building AI agentic systems to drive complex, non-linear workflow automation.
• Deep experience building and optimizing CI/CD workflows using tools such as Gitlab Pipelines, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, or similar.
• Strong programming and scripting skills for developing internal tooling, at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go).
• Experience with container technology (Docker) and deploying applications to Kubernetes using tools such as Helm and Kustomize.
• Experience with infrastructure & configuration as code tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with managing developer-centric tools like service catalogs, artifact registries, and developer documentation platforms (e.g. Backstage, Confluence).

What you will bring

• A strong customer-centric and product mindset, with a passion for treating internal developers as first-class customers.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to evangelize, train, and support fellow engineers.
• Curious and self-motivated learner who is eager to explore emerging trends in developer experience and AI-assisted tooling.
• A pragmatic and collaborative approach focused on shipping high-impact, iterative improvements.
• Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• You take responsibility for outcomes end-to-end and follow through on commitments with transparency.

Why Cover Genius?

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We're a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that.

• Flexible Work Environment - our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursdays and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times. We also have the added bonus of a Wellness day a month.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we’re doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

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