Senior Engineering Manager

&lt;p&gt;Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We&#39;re on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;strong&gt;Great Place to Work&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women&lt;/strong&gt;. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the role:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why join our Engineering team?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Hybrid working model &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How you will add value:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;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. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About you:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;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. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Life at hipages:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We’re more than just a workplace. We’re a place where you can be yourself, do great work and grow your career. Recognised as a Great Place to Work, our inclusive, supportive culture helps people thrive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You’ll use the best tools and tech, with real impact on our products and customers. We invest in your development and lead with coaching, not micromanagement. It’s why 85% of our team say their leader is great.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And there’s more:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects &amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We prioritise Diversity:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At hipages, innovation and collaboration thrive in diverse and inclusive teams. We don’t expect you to know everything - we care more about who you are as a person, a team member, and a leader.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 for supporting women’s careers and we value diversity across culture, age, gender identity and sexual orientation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Research shows that men often apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and minority groups wait until they tick every box. 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