Engineering Manager
On-siteAuckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Job Summary
Lead high-impact product evolution for thousands of daily users while mentoring Tech Leads and building a high-trust, people-first culture. Drive strategic delivery to ship high-value software by collaborating with Product and Tech Leads, translating product strategy into seamless execution, and acting as a tech conversant leader who engages in architecture discussions and challenges estimates. Provide performance coaching and career development for 4–8 engineers across 1–3 squads, reducing tech debt and promoting modern software practices including AWS, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling. Clear friction and bottlenecks to uplift engineering culture, ensuring teams focus on high-value outcomes within a major product modernisation initiative.
Required Qualifications
- Proven Engineering Leadership Experience
- Successfully managed software engineering teams in a modern SaaS or cloud product environment
- Delivery & Continuous Improvement Mindset
- Track record of shipping high-quality features
- Modernising legacy systems
- Refining ways of working
- Technical Conversance
- Strong familiarity with cloud-native architectures
- AWS
- Microservices
- Modern web/mobile stacks
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Strong empathy
- Communication skills
- People Impact Focus
- Genuine passion for coaching, mentoring
- Helping engineers understand the 'why' behind what they build
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