SaaS Engineering Manager – End-to-End Delivery

aXcelerate; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking

Hybrid/flexible working

Professional development budget

Employee assistance program

Technology community & networking

Job summary

aXcelerate is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Leader to guide multiple squads under the CTO, owning delivery, team growth, and technical standards. You’ll ensure visibility into project status, manage capacity, and drive hiring and onboarding to strengthen capability and culture.

The role emphasizes accountability, coaching, and collaboration with Product, Design, QA, Platform, LMS Engineering and Customer Support, with opportunities for flexible/hybrid work in Australia.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years leading software engineering teams with performance management and team growth.
• Hands-on technical experience building SaaS or cloud-based applications.
• Proven strength in project delivery, schedule governance, capacity planning and escalation.
• Experience balancing feature delivery with reliability, performance and security.
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across the SMS roadmap, including schedules, regression windows and change logs.
• Manage capacity and workload, balancing feature delivery, operational work and technical debt.
• Run weekly squad-health reviews and maintain delivery hygiene (Jira, estimates, SLAs).
• Hold regular 1:1s, coach and mentor, and lead performance reviews and promotions.
• Shape the team’s growth strategy and lead hiring and onboarding.
• Partner with Technical Leads, Product, Design, QA, Platform and LMS Engineering, and Customer Support.
• Drive improvements in incident management, CI/CD, testing and engineering practice.

Skills

Leadership

SaaS development

Project delivery

Scrum/Kanban

Cloud platforms

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

aXcelerate is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Leader to guide multiple squads under the CTO, owning delivery, team growth, and technical standards. You’ll ensure visibility into project status, manage capacity, and drive hiring and onboarding to strengthen capability and culture.

The role emphasizes accountability, coaching, and collaboration with Product, Design, QA, Platform, LMS Engineering and Customer Support, with opportunities for flexible/hybrid work in Australia.