Software Engineering Manager

NYLON; Christchurch; Presencial; NZD 180 000 - 240 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Nylon is hiring its first Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the Nylon product and to build the team around them. You will own product engineering for the Core Nylon experience—research and answer experience, identity, and billing—while managing line delivery and hiring for the group.

The team is small today with a funded hiring plan to grow into new capability squads. You will set engineering standards and help the team scale while staying hands-on where appropriate.

Qualificações

• 3+ years managing software engineers in a high-growth SaaS environment.
• You're still technical and occasionally hands on through AI development tooling.

Responsabilidades

• Managing Nylon engineers: 1:1s, growth plans, performance and levelling against our six-level engineering framework
• Owning delivery, so squads ship predictably against a plan agreed with product and trade-offs surfaced early
• Hiring a senior-heavy team, working with our Talent Lead on sourcing.
• Setting the engineering bar: code review, release quality, on-call, incident response and postmortems that change how we work
• Standing up squads as the team grows (Core, Auth & Billing, Growth)
• Staying close to the work: reading PRs, design reviews and taking a turn on the pager, without being the critical path for code

Conhecimentos

Team management

Hands-on AI tooling

Operational excellence

AI tooling strategy

Ferramentas

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Jest

Docker

Datadog

GitHub Actions CI/CD

React

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Nylon builds AI research tools that are changing how lawyers and accountants work. 2,000+ firms across New Zealand, Australia and the UK trust our platform, from the biggest firms in the world to small specialist practices. Backed by Australasia's top VCs, we're expanding into the new markets while deepening our position in the UK and Australia.

Our engineering team is about to grow quickly. We're looking for our first Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the Nylon product and to build the team around them.

The role

You'll own product engineering for the Core Nylon experience: the research and answer experience, identity and billing, growth. You'll own line management, delivery and hiring for this group.

The team is small tody, with a handful of passionate engineers and a funded hiring plan for you to build out your team and populate new capability squads.

What you'll be doing

• Managing the Nylon engineers: 1:1s, growth plans, performance and levelling against our six-level engineering framework

• Owning delivery, so squads ship predictably against a plan agreed with product and trade-offs are surfaced early

• Hiring a senior-heavy team, working with our Talent Lead on sourcing.

• Setting the engineering bar: code review, release quality, on-call, incident response and postmortems that change how we work

• Standing up squads as the team grows (Core, Auth & Billing, Growth)

• Staying close to the work: reading PRs, sitting in design reviews and taking a turn on the pager, without being the critical path for code

About you

• You've managed software engineers for 3+ years in a high growth SAAS environment.

• You're still technical and occassionally hands on through new AI development tooling

• You treat operational excellence as a management discipline, not something that happens to whoever is on call

• You already use AI tooling (we're passionate Claude Code builders) and have views on what it changes about how engineering teams should be shaped

Stack

• Node.js

• PostgreSQL

• AWS

• Terraform

• Jest

• Docker

• Datadog

• GitHub Actions CI/CD

• React