Job Description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Product based in Australia.

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This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact product engineering team within an early-stage, fully distributed software environment.
n You'll guide a compact group of engineers responsible for turning customer needs into valuable, reliable product capabilities.
n The team works across cloud spend management, data pipelines, visualization, and intuitive product experiences.
n You'll partner closely with Product and Design to ensure engineering priorities remain aligned with customer needs and business goals.
n The role combines people leadership, delivery ownership, technical judgment, and organizational development.
n You'll have meaningful influence over engineering standards, team growth, hiring, and how products move from idea to launch.
n It's an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who thrives on autonomy, collaboration, and building high-performing teams in a fast-moving environment.

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Accountabilities

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- Lead, coach, develop, and grow a compact product engineering team while maintaining a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture.
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- Establish clear priorities, maintain alignment across the team, remove delivery blockers, and ensure consistent progress toward product goals.
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- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate customer needs and business priorities into focused engineering initiatives.
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- Guide the team in balancing delivery speed, technical quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability when making engineering tradeoffs.
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- Enable engineers to take ownership of features from initial concepts and technical planning through implementation, testing, and launch.
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- Establish and maintain practical standards for software design, testing, documentation, technical decisions, and engineering processes.
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- Support recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and development of new engineering talent as the organization grows.
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- Strengthen collaboration across engineering, product, design, and leadership to ensure decisions are clear and execution remains coordinated.
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- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and strong communication.
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- Help the team deliver dependable and performant product capabilities across spend management, data, visualization, and application infrastructure.
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Requirements

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- Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams, ideally within a product-focused technology setting.
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- Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams, develop engineers, and create an environment where people can do their best work.
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- Strong product mindset with the ability to understand customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations when setting engineering direction.
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- Excellent organizational and communication skills, with the ability to maintain clarity across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
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- Strong judgment when balancing velocity,



engineering quality, technical debt, and customer impact.
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- Experience enabling engineers to own features and projects throughout the complete development lifecycle.
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- Comfortable operating in an early-stage or rapidly evolving environment where processes and priorities continue to develop.
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- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with Product, Design, and senior leadership.
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- Experience with or familiarity with modern software development environments such as TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Terraform, GCP, dbt, and Dagster is beneficial but not mandatory.
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- Experience leading engineers within a young startup is a strong plus.
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- Exposure to FinOps, cloud infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, or data platforms is advantageous.
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- Hands-on experience with a comparable modern technology stack is also a plus.
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Benefits

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- Base salary of up to $300,000 CAD, plus additional compensation opportunities.
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- Fully remote work within a distributed engineering environment.
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- Opportunity to lead a small, high-leverage team with significant influence on product and engineering direction.
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- Meaningful ownership over team development, engineering standards, hiring, and delivery practices.
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- Close collaboration with Product, Design, and leadership.
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- Opportunity to work on products addressing complex cloud spending and optimization challenges.
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- High-autonomy environment that encourages thoughtful decision-making and continuous improvement.
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- Opportunity to shape team culture and engineering practices within a growing technology organization.
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📌 Engineering Manager - Product (New South Wales)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 New South Wales