Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React

Novus Recruitment Solutions; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 216,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Novus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for a global SaaS business in Sydney. This true player-coach role reports to the CTO and leads a team of 10, while remaining hands-on in code.

You'll split your week 40-50% building and 50-60% leading, shaping AI-driven SDLC, roadmaps and quarterly goals. Collaboration with Product, Customer Success and Sales will be essential, with a hybrid 2-days-in-office arrangement.

Qualifications

• Several years leading engineers in SaaS or enterprise environments.
• Hands-on coding experience with .NET and modern frontend.
• Strong people management across multiple time zones.
• Clear communication with engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers, QA Lead, and Engineering Team Lead, own growth and hiring.
• Coach Team Lead to full ownership.
• Stay hands-on across the .NET backend and React frontend.
• Own roadmap commitments and quarterly goals.
• Drive AI-driven SDLC with guardrails and measure impact on cycle time, release frequency, and quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Success and Sales on what can be promised.

Skills

People leadership

Communication

Strategic product mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Global team leadership

Hands-on engineering

Tools

C#/.NET

React

Azure

AI tooling (Claude Code/Codex)

Job description

Up to $240k + Super | Sydney Hybrid | 2 days in office per week

I'm hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for an established, global SaaS business.

This is a true player-coach role. You'll report to the CTO and lead a team of 10, including an Engineering Team Lead and a QA Lead, while staying hands‑on in the code.

40-50% of your week will be building, the rest leading the team. They want a great people manager who's still a strong engineer, in that order.

The environment includes C#/.NET, React, Angular across the legacy front end, Azure and modern AI‑assisted engineering, with coding, review and QA agents already part of everyday work.

There's also some legacy in there being modernised, so if you like that kind of problem, you'll enjoy this.

You'll be responsible for:

• Leading and managing engineers, a QA Lead and an Engineering Team Lead with their own reports, owning their growth, performance and hiring
• Coaching the Team Lead into full ownership of their area
• Staying hands‑on across the .NET backend and React front end, and stepping in wherever it unblocks the team
• Owning the team's roadmap commitments and quarterly goals, and raising risk early and plainly when something's slipping
• Leading the next stage of an AI‑driven SDLC, with coding, review and QA agents doing real work under guardrails you own, and measuring what it changes in cycle time, release frequency and quality
• Partnering closely with Product on the how, the why and the when of what gets built, and with Customer Success and Sales on what's realistic to promise

You'll bring:

• Several years leading engineers in enterprise or scale‑up SaaS, including managing a lead or manager who had their own reports
• A true player‑coach who's shipped production code as a manager in the last two years and can still carry a technical design review
• Strong commercial C#/.NET and React
• Experience in a team that's changed how it works because of agentic tools (Claude Code, Codex or similar), and the drive to push it further. Using Cursor on the side won't be enough for this one
• A product mindset: you judge work by what it does for the customer and the business
• Extremely clear communication with engineers and executives alike
• Experience leading people across locations and time zones
• Based in Sydney with full working rights

Highly regarded:

• Modernising a long‑lived .NET codebase or legacy front end
• Azure, with an eye on cloud cost

The opportunity

• Up to $240k + Super
• Sydney hybrid working, 2 days in office per week
• Reporting to the CTO, with a real say in how the team and its culture evolve
• An established SaaS product with significant new development
• AI‑assisted engineering workflows you'll get to shape
• A fast process with 3 interview stages, and they're open to people starting either this side of Christmas or early January