Engineering Manager

Technical Skills

Recent background as a software engineer, with experience working across complex, large-scale SaaS products

Comfortable navigating and leading work in legacy codebases: able to assess technical debt pragmatically, avoid unnecessary rewrites, and align technical priorities to product strategy

Able to contribute to technical direction, participate meaningfully in architectural discussions, and review code — you don't need to be shipping features, but your engineers should trust your technical judgement

Experienced in scoping and estimating complex features in partnership with Product, including feasibility trade-offs and high-level effort sizing

Understands what good looks like in a high-scale SaaS environment: endpoint performance, data integrity, release safety, and the operational discipline that keeps large customer workloads running well

Behavioural Skills

Genuinely interested in people leadership — you see coaching, career development, and team health as core to the job, not a distraction from the technical work

Self-directed and proactive: you notice what's not working and improve it without needing someone to point it out first

Pragmatic decision-maker: you weigh trade-offs clearly, move on reversible decisions quickly, and don't let perfect get in the way of better

Strong communicator — able to give direct, useful feedback to engineers and have honest conversations with your manager and peers about what's going well and what isn't

Team-oriented and relationship-driven: you invest in the people around you and build trust across teams, not just within your own

AI Skills

Actively uses AI tools as part of day-to-day work; someone who hasn't yet integrated AI tools into their workflow won't thrive here

Able to evaluate AI-generated code for quality and appropriateness, and has a view on where AI accelerates engineering work versus where human judgement is still essential

Curious about how AI tooling is evolving and willing to experiment with new approaches that improve team productivity and developer experience