Senior Engineering Manager

Hipagesgroup; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Talent Development program

Equity via Employee Share Program

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-native work at scale

Job summary

hipages is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a portfolio of software teams across a meaningful domain. You’ll coach Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, set technical direction, and ensure delivery, quality, and alignment to business outcomes in an AI-enabled environment.

You’ll shape how engineering works in an AI-native world, lead through multi-team scale, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams to maximise impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership.
• Experience leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers.
• Ability to align engineering with product and commercial strategy.
• Experience in AI-augmented engineering and agile at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and accountable for team health and delivery.
• Own technical and architectural direction across domain, aligned to standards.
• Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and reliability.
• Partner with senior Product and Design to shape domain strategy and sequencing.
• Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams with planning and risk management.
• Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap balancing architecture and feature delivery.
• Identify cross-team risks early and manage dependencies.
• Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs aligned to domain outcomes.
• Lead AI-forward ways of working and adapt team models for AI-enabled delivery.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI mindset

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Technical credibility

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Job description

Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone.

With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.

About the role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a portfolio of high-performing software teams across a meaningful domain of the hipages marketplace. Leading through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, you’ll be accountable for people, delivery, technical health, and business outcomes across multiple squads.

This is a role for a leader who operates beyond the single-team level. You’ll set technical and delivery direction, develop the leaders beneath you, and connect engineering execution to commercial strategy. You’ll help your teams build reliable, high-quality systems that are well-prioritised, operationally sound, and continuously improving.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping how engineering works in an AI-native world. You’ll treat agentic engineering, AI-augmented delivery, and evolving team models as core levers for how your domain operates, not as side experiments.

Why join our Engineering team?

• Hybrid working model
• In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth
• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams
• The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale

How you will add value:

• Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality.
• Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards.
• Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.
• Partner with senior Product and Design peers to shape domain strategy, challenge scope and sequencing, and ensure engineering effort is invested where it creates the greatest customer and commercial impact.
• Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery.
• Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain.
• Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.
• Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities.

About you:

• 6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.
• Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework.
• Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations.
• Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you.
• You have navigated, or are actively navigating, the shift to AI-augmented engineering and understand how AI changes team shape, throughput expectations, and engineering craft.
• You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying.
• You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes.
• You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly.

Life at hipages:

We’re more than just a workplace. We’re a place where you can be yourself, do great work and grow your career. Recognised as a Great Place to Work, our inclusive, supportive culture helps people thrive.

You’ll use the best tools and tech, with real impact on our products and customers. We invest in your development and lead with coaching, not micromanagement. It’s why 85% of our team say their leader is great.

And there’s more:

• Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems
• Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows
• Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more
• Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit
• Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations
• Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects
• A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it

We prioritise Diversity:

At hipages, innovation and collaboration thrive in diverse and inclusive teams. We don’t expect you to know everything - we care more about who you are as a person, a team member, and a leader.

We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 for supporting women’s careers and we value diversity across culture, age, gender identity and sexual orientation.

Research shows that men often apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and minority groups wait until they tick every box. If you think you’d be a great fit - even if you don’t meet every requirement - we’d love to hear from you.

We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.