Job Description
We're hipages, Australia's #1 digital platform connecting homeowners with trusted tradies. As an ASX-listed tech company, we're on a mission to transform the trade industry and improve lives.
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With teams across Australia, Recent Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose.
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We're proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180's #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you'll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.
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About the role:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why join our Engineering team?
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In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth
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Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
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Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams
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The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale
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How you will add value:
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Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality.
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Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages' standards.
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Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.
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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.
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Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
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Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery.
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Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain.
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Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.
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Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities.
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About you:
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6+ years' experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.
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Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework.
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Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations.
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Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you.
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You have navigated, or is actively navigating, the shift to AI-augmented engineering and understand how AI changes team shape, throughput expectations,



and engineering craft.
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You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying.
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You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes.
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You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly.
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Life at hipages:
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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.
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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.
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And there's more:
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Diverse, team-oriented teams that love solving problems
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Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows
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Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more
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Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit
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Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations
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Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects
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A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it
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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.
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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.
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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. If you think you'd be a great fit - even if you don't meet every requirement - we'd love to hear from you.
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We're also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
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📌 Senior Engineering Manager (New South Wales)
🏢 hipages Group
📍 New South Wales