Senior Engineering Manager

Software Engineer (AI Tooling & Enablement) - Greenhouse; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career growth and development

Equity via Employee Share Program

Job summary

hipages is a leading ASX-listed platform connecting households with home improvement professionals. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a portfolio of software teams, guiding Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to deliver high-quality systems at scale.

You will shape technical direction, partner with Product and Design, and advance AI-native engineering practices to improve throughput and outcomes across multiple squads.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams.
• Strong technical foundation and ability to challenge architectural decisions.
• Proven track record developing Engineering Managers.
• You understand AI-augmented engineering and its impact on team structure and delivery.
• You drive outcomes and agile practices at scale across several teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health and delivery.
• Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs align with standards.
• Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.
• Partner with senior Product and Design to shape domain strategy and prioritise work with customer impact.
• Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams and maintain a clear technical roadmap.
• Lead AI-forward ways of working, shaping team structure and opportunities for AI-enabled delivery.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Multi-team leadership

AI-native engineering

Agile delivery

Architectural decision-making

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 stakeho