Engineering Manager

Job Description

This is a true Engineering Manager role , designed for leaders who balance people leadership, delivery, and technical judgement .

Typical split:

• ~80% Engineering Management

• ~20% hands-on Technical involvement

You won’t be coding full-time, but you’ll be expected to:

• Step into the codebase when needed

• Review architecture and design decisions

• Unblock complex technical challenges

• Make sound trade-offs as the system approaches scale limits

Your team will run multiple parallel initiatives , often spanning global teams. Success in this role comes from creating clarity, maintaining momentum, and delivering consistently even when you can’t deep-dive into every line of code.

What You’ll Own:

Build and Scale a High-Performance Team

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6-8 engineers initially, with clear growth ahead

• Establish strong engineering standards, delivery discipline, and ownership

• Build a culture that blends startup pace with big-tech maturity

Drive Delivery at Scale

• Own delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives

• Balance speed with stability as transaction volumes and system complexity increase

• Proactively identify and manage risk as the platform approaches capacity limits

Technical Leadership

• Operate in a language-agnostic environment

• Current stack includes C#, .NET, Go, Rust  (with evolution ongoing)

• Work closely with partners across payments, cloud, and platform services

• Contribute to architectural decisions that will support global scale

Product Partnership

• Work in close partnership with senior Product leadership

• Translate product strategy into executable engineering plans

• Collaborate daily with teams across Australia, the US, and Asia

The Background We’re Looking For:

This role suits someone who has:

• A strong engineering foundation  with genuine technical credibility

• Led teams through scale-up phases , not just early-stage startups

• Experience in large, mature tech environments  with strong process and governance

• The ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality or sustainability

Ideal profile:
Big-tech / FAANG-style experience combined with high-growth platform or scale-up exposure.

Not a fit if you:

• Want to remain 100% hands-on

• Have only worked in very early, scrappy startups

• Prefer local-only teams or minimal cross-timezone collaboration

Ways of Working

• Remote within Australia 

• Core hours aligned to AU time

• Expect 1–2 early morning or occasional evening calls  due to global collaboration

• Flexible, sustainable pace - not a constant late-night culture

Why This Role Stands Out

• One of the fastest-growing platforms  inside a global tech business

• Real problems: payments, infrastructure, transaction scale, reliability

• Deep collaboration with world-class engineers and product leaders

• A startup-within-big-tech  environment

• Meaningful equity and long-term growth

If you’re an Engineering Manager who wants to own scale, build teams that matter, and shape a product used globally , this is a rare opportunity worth exploring. Apply here or reach out to Dani -