Engineering Manager - Hybrid

Sitemate; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

20 days annual leave

Professional growth budget

Laptop and home-office setup budget

Flexible work - remote or hybrid

Job summary

Sitemate in Australia is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the engineering side of a product team. You will support the Product General Manager, mentor engineers, manage performance and growth, and ensure work flows from ready to build through to shipped with high quality and a predictable cadence.

You will collaborate with the Product Design Manager and Tech Lead to align scope, design, and architecture while focusing on execution and people.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team and delivering software.
• Ability to drive performance, growth and cadence from planning to shipping.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team and oversee their day-to-day execution.
• Ensure work moves from ready to build through to shipped with high quality.
• Collaborate with Product Design Manager and Tech Lead on scope and standards.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Sprint planning

Software engineering basics

Job description

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Overview

Build What Matters

The Engineering Manager leads the engineering side of a product team, reporting to and supporting their Product General Manager (PGM). They are responsible for the engineers in their team, including their performance, growth, and day-to-day execution, and for making sure work moves from "ready to build" through to "shipped and stable" with high quality and a predictable cadence, including delivering code themselves.

Delivery is shared with the Product Design Manager (PDM). The PDM owns the what: product scope, design, acceptance criteria, and production monitoring. The Manager owns the how: engineering capacity, sprint planning, unblocking engineers, and the quality of the engineering process. Both are jointly accountable for timelines and outcomes. When something slips or ships with issues, neither role can point at the other.

The Manager also works closely with the Tech Lead, who owns technical quality and architectural direction. The Manager focuses on execution and people. The Tech Lead focuses on technical standards and code quality. In practice these overlap and require close collaboration.

Employment:

• Full-time
• Based: Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia
• Remuneration (Including Super): AUD $140,000 - $170,000 pending your experience

About Sitemate

Sitemate is the front line AI company for the built world. We build software and AI agents for construction, engineering, manufacturing, and energy companies, helping field teams capture work as it happens and the business turn that activity into structured, auditable records. The Sitemate platforms include Dashpivot, Gearbelt, the Sitemate App, and Flowsite, and Sitemate's AI agent is called Storm.

Storm is our AI agent layer, working underneath Dashpivot, Gearbelt, the Sitemate App, and Flowsite to turn what happens on-site into structured, auditable records.

We've achieved strong product-market fit - generating thousands of new monthly leads through word-of-mouth and organic marketing alone.

Backed by Blackbird, Australia and New Zealand’s #1 venture capital firm, and a graduate of the Startmate Accelerator, Sitemate has grown from 5 people in 2018 to over 150 across 18+ countries. Our team blends deep industry experience with cutting-edge product design to build tools that modernise one of the world’s largest and most essential industries.

Why Join Sitemate

At Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.

We’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.

You’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.

Our Core Values

Our core values dictate "how we work". We believe that basic human values such as honesty, trust and integrity are required to simply ‘get in the door’. Our values are designed to help us determine if an already great person, will be a great fit at Sitemate.

• Handle with Care: Handle with thought and care, decisions are considered and consciously delivered
• Everything Engineered: Everything engineered, intentional, planned and systematic
• Quality Certified: Do it well, with attention to detail and accuracy, or don’t do it at all
• Fast Tracked: Fast, incremental, and constant delivery of change
• High Vis: A high visibility, transparent and open environment
• Rain, Hail or Shine: Show up for your team, your customers and yourself

Learn more about our values:

• Read:
  • On Sitemate's Values, Culture and DNA
• Listen:
  • Unleashing your Zilla
  • On scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture

What We Offer

• Competitive, performance-based remuneration
• Equity options - own a piece of what you’re helping to build
• 20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave
• Paid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support)
• Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework
• Laptop and home-office setup budget
• Flexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year
• Community & connection - weekly team lunches, global offsites, and our signature “Life Story” sessions
• Sydney HQ perks - rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers, and cycle storage in Haymarket
• Melbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms, opposite Southern Cross station

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Sitemate welcomes people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities, and abilities.

55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, 43% identify as female, and our team spans ages 22-51. We believe our diversity makes us stronger - and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

Learn More About Sitemate

Podcasts:

• 2024: CEO Hartley Pike on scaling Sitemate, diversity, and