Hands-On Engineering Manager: Lead a Domain, Ship & Scale

Rosterfy; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Volunteer time off

Referral bonuses & recognition

Job summary

Rosterfy, a Melbourne-based leader in volunteer management software, seeks an Engineering Manager who will own one engineering team and be hands-on in code weekly. You will manage rituals, quarterly OKRs, and career development for direct reports, while driving domain health and platform improvements.

You will stay hands-on with Laravel (PHP 8+), Next.js and AWS, act as a trusted advisor on technical discovery, architecture, and tooling, and collaborate with Product and Design to shape the

Qualifications

• 7+ years in full-stack software engineering with leadership responsibilities
• Hands-on with Laravel (PHP 8+), Next.js and AWS
• Experience delivering production features and owning SLOs and incident response

Responsibilities

• Handle sprint tickets end-to-end without becoming the critical path
• Lead code reviews and act as a technical consultant for the team
• Lead technical discovery and design with Lead/Principal Engineers and write ADRs
• Collaborate to debug incidents in your domains
• Maintain codebase and platform direction including modernization
• Directly manage engineers: 1:1s, expectations, reviews and development plans
• Hire, onboard and retain engineers; build an inclusive team culture
• Own domains end-to-end: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, triage, debt

Skills

Laravel PHP 8+

Next.js

AWS

Code reviews

Hands-on

Team leadership

Tools

AWS SQS

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

Rosterfy, a Melbourne-based leader in volunteer management software, seeks an Engineering Manager who will own one engineering team and be hands-on in code weekly. You will manage rituals, quarterly OKRs, and career development for direct reports, while driving domain health and platform improvements.

You will stay hands-on with Laravel (PHP 8+), Next.js and AWS, act as a trusted advisor on technical discovery, architecture, and tooling, and collaborate with Product and Design to shape the