Engineering Manager

Ndeva; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

L&D budget

Transport allowance

Birthday day off

Friday team lunches

Job summary

Devoli is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the software team through its next growth phase, including market expansion, a platform migration, and an AI-enabled, agentic delivery strategy. You will line-manage 8 engineers, partner with Principal Engineers on direction, and own delivery cadence and process improvements.

You'll collaborate closely with Product to forecast capacity, push back on commitments, and ensure sustainable velocity, while advancing SDLC practices and operational

Qualifications

• Experience line-managing and growing a software team.
• Technical depth to earn credibility with Principal Engineers.
• Track record of predictable SaaS/cloud/product delivery.
• Hands-on CI/CD and automated testing experience.
• Strong partnership with Product.
• Genuine interest in agentic AI engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach around 8 engineers, with growth plans.
• Own delivery across concurrent streams: customer platform delivery, new market entry, and platform migration.
• Partner with Product to forecast capacity and manage trade-offs.
• Own end-to-end delivery process, improve with DORA metrics.
• Drive the team's move to AI-enabled, agentic delivery.

Skills

Line management

Hiring

Mentoring

Software engineering

Delivery reliability

CI/CD

Product partnership

Stakeholder management

Agentic AI interest

Tools

CI/CD

Automated testing

Cloud platforms

Job description

Engineering Manager | Agentic AI Delivery | Self-Funded Scale-Up

Devoli started life as a telco. Today its in the middle of a deliberate transformation into a software platform company. The software team isnt maintaining a product on the side: theyre building the platform that will eventually become the whole business.

Devoli is self-funded and cash generative, with around $140M in annual revenue and strong board backing for its platform strategy. It has none of the funding risk that comes with a startup, but all of the ownership and pace of a scale-up.

They're now hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the software team through its next phase: market expansion, a platform migration and a move to AI-enabled, agentic delivery.

The role

Reporting to the CTO, you'll line-manage around 8 engineers: junior to senior software engineers, UX engineers and Platform Ops. You'll own how and when the team delivers.

Product owns the what and why. You own the how and when. You'll work as a peer to Devoli's Principal Engineers, who set technical direction, while you own the process, flow and adoption that make that direction land.

What you'll own

• People: strong 1:1s, goals and development plans. Coach engineers through to Senior, and deal with underperformance early and directly.


• Delivery: own delivery across concurrent streams (customer platform delivery, new market entry and platform migration) with a fast, sustainable tempo.


• Product partnership: be the authority on capacity. Give evidence-based forecasts, make trade-offs visible, and push back when a commitment doesnt add up.


• SDLC and ways of working: own the delivery process end to end, and improve it using DORA, cycle time and escaped defects.


• Agentic AI: lead the team's move to AI-enabled, agentic delivery across the full lifecycle, well beyond code generation, and measure whether its working.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience directly line-managing and growing a software engineering team, including performance conversations, hiring and mentoring


• A software engineering background with enough technical depth to earn credibility with Principal Engineers (hands-on coding not required)


• A track record of predictable delivery in a SaaS, cloud or product environment, using flow metrics rather than Gantt charts


• Hands-on experience improving an SDLC with CI/CD, automated testing and engineering metrics


• Strong partnership with Product, including shaping unclear requirements and pushing back constructively


• Genuine engagement with agentic AI engineering, and the energy to bring a team along with you

Nice to have:

Go, Python or AWS; experience leading a distributed NZ/AU team; a telco or SaaS platform background; \"you build it, you run it\" ops experience.

Why Devoli

• A real seat in the leadership group with Product and the Principal Engineers


• The chance to build an agentic delivery \"factory\" from the ground up


• A senior, diverse team, with an office in a converted historic power station building in Victoria Park


• $2,000 annual L&D budget, $50/week transport allowance, a birthday day off, and Friday team lunches