Software Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Share Option Plan

Access to Everlab health program

Job summary

Everlab, Australia’s healthtech startup building a lifelong health platform, seeks an engineering manager to lead a Sydney-based squad in a hybrid role. You will own delivery, health, and people, partnering with a Tech Lead to shape the squad’s direction and rhythm while anchoring decisions in durable systems rather than heroic acts.

Join a foundation hire as engineering management scales; you’ll define operating rhythms, career paths, and hiring approach, with privacy and safety at the core and

Qualifications

• Engineering management experience with ownership of delivery and people growth.
• Predictable delivery achieved through process and system, not heroics.
• Technically credible in design decisions and risk surfacing.
• Strong people-management craft including coaching and hiring accountability.
• Experience building in a regulated healthcare environment with privacy/safety emphasis.

Responsibilities

• Own the squad's delivery and health, setting an operating rhythm that ships predictably.
• Own people management: performance, careers, hiring, retention, and difficult conversations.
• Set the squad's goals and rhythm with the Tech Lead, communicating the why clearly.
• Grow engineers deliberately, coaching and promoting progression.
• Make effective use of AI as the squad's default practice and share learnings with the group.

Skills

Engineering management

Predictable delivery

Technical credibility

People-management

Healthcare regulation

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

GraphQL

React

GCP

Job description

This is a full time role with hybrid working, 3 days a week in our Sydney office (Surry Hills).

Everlab is an Australian healthtech startup building the platform to look after people's health for their entire lives. It's not just an app, it's the infrastructure connecting every available healthcare service to give you comprehensive data on your health and provide personalised care.

We've had a 23x increase in revenue since June 2025 and recently announced our $65m Series A round, making this an exciting time to join Everlab as we expand globally.

You'll lead a single squad, owning its delivery, its health and its people, and you'll do that through a durable system rather than through heroics, in partnership with a Tech Lead who owns the squad's technical direction. This is a foundational hire as Everlab introduces engineering management, so alongside running your own squad you'll have real scope to help define how the function works, from the operating rhythm to career expectations to how we hire and grow engineers as the team scales.

Day to day that means planning and unblocking so the squad ships predictably, setting goals and an operating rhythm with your Tech Lead, and keeping the “why” legible so everyone understands the reasoning behind the work in front of them. You'll be technically credible enough to engage in design decisions and surface risk without needing to out-code the team, and close enough to the work to recognise when a delivery problem is really a technical one.

People management sits squarely with you: performance, careers, hiring, retention, and the difficult conversations, handled early and honestly rather than left to fester. You'll grow engineers deliberately, sponsoring the people ready to stretch and coaching the ones who are stuck, and you'll make effective use of AI the squad's default way of working, as genuine everyday practice rather than box-ticking. We're building in regulated healthcare, so privacy and safety are part of how your squad works rather than a step at the end.

What You Will Do

• Own the squad's delivery and health: planning, unblocking, and an operating rhythm that ships predictably, with the system doing the work rather than individual heroics.
• Own people management: performance, careers, hiring, retention, and the difficult conversations, handled early and honestly.
• Set the squad's goals and rhythm: work with the Tech Lead to define what the squad is aiming at and how it operates, and keep the “why” legible to everyone in it.
• Grow engineers deliberately: sponsor the people who are ready to stretch, coach the ones who are stuck, and make career progression something engineers can see rather than guess at.
• Make effective use of AI the squad's default: build genuine everyday practice into how the team works, not box-ticking, and share what works with the wider engineering group.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering management experience: you've managed software engineering teams with genuine ownership of both delivery and people growth, in startup or scale up company environments.
• Predictable delivery: you have a track record of shipping predictably through process and system rather than heroics, and you can show us what you put in place and why it held.
• Technically credible: you can engage in design decisions and surface risk with your team without needing to out-code them, and you know when a delivery problem is really a technical one.
• Strong people-management craft: honest feedback, real coaching, and hiring you're accountable for, including the conversations most managers put off.
• Takes healthcare seriously: you understand the responsibility that comes with building in a regulated healthcare environment, and you treat privacy and safety as part of how the squad works.
• Bonus points: experience introducing or maturing engineering management practice in a scaling organisation, and familiarity with our stack of TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, React and GCP.

Why It's Great to Work at Everlab

• Do work that matters: we’re building the future of preventive health. Use your skills to prevent disease, improve access to personalised care, and reduce pressure on the health system.
• Work-life flexibility: hybrid working with 3 days in the office, plus flexibility to manage life beyond the 9 to 5 when it matters.
• Experience Everlab as a customer: full access to the Everlab health program, provided after successfully passing probation.
• Share in our success: Employee Share Option Plan included as part of your total remuneration. We grow together.
• People you'll love working with: a welcoming, mission-driven team of smart, thoughtful people doing meaningful work.