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 - [email protected]