Job Description

Engineering Manager | Digital Marketplace

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Gold Coast OR Brisbane | Hybrid (2 days per week in office) | Relocation Assistance Available

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Sometimes an Engineering Manager role means inheriting 30 people, sitting in meetings all day and slowly forgetting how software actually gets built.

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This isn't that.

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Refactor is exclusively partnering with a household Australian digital marketplace to find an Engineering Manager who can take genuine ownership of its technology and engineering function.

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You'll inherit a small, experienced engineering team and a successful platform that's entering its next stage of evolution.

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There's legacy technology to progressively modernise, newer architecture to introduce and plenty of opportunity to decide where engineering can make the biggest commercial impact.

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This isn't a rebuild for the sake of a rebuild. They want someone pragmatic enough to know what to change, what to buy, what to build and what to leave alone. That's a key theme from the brief.

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What you'll own

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You'll take responsibility for engineering execution across the platform, working closely with Product, Sales, commercial stakeholders and senior technology leaders.

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You'll be:

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- Leading an established, distributed engineering team
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- Driving the progressive modernisation of the platform
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- Translating commercial priorities into sensible engineering decisions
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- Working across modern web technologies, cloud and APIs
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- Owning architecture, reliability, security and engineering quality
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- Managing integrations across multiple business-critical platforms
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- Working closely with Product to turn ideas into shipped outcomes
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- Bringing a explicit engineering perspective to senior stakeholders
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The remit is deliberately broad. They need someone capable of moving between architecture, people leadership,



delivery and commercial conversations without disappearing into any one of them.

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What's in it for you?

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- Recognised as one of Australia's Best Workplaces, a Family Friendly Workplace and a WORK180 endorsed employer
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- 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, 4 weeks for secondary carers, 6 weeks paid gender affirming care leave
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- Genuine relocation support if the Gold Coast lifestyle is calling
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- Hybrid set up 2 days in office out of Brisbane or Gold Coast - 3 flexible days
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- Regular hackathons and a real learning budget, not just the promise of one
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Who we're looking for:

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You're likely an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead or senior engineering leader from a product-led technology business.

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Experience across marketplaces, e-commerce, B2B SaaS or another customer-facing digital platform would translate particularly well.

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You'll need strong technical credibility across modern web engineering and cloud, but we're not hunting for the world's most enthusiastic architecture astronaut.

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Commercial judgement matters.

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Sometimes the perfect technical solution isn't the right business solution.

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You'll know the difference.

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You'll also be comfortable inheriting an experienced team. This isn't about arriving with a new org chart on day one. It's about listening, earning credibility and then helping a good team get better.

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Why consider it?

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You get something that's becoming increasingly rare:

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Actual ownership.

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An established digital product. Real customers. Real revenue. An experienced team.

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But still small and autonomous enough that the decisions you make will genuinely matter.

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Add a significant platform modernisation journey, the backing and resources of a much larger technology environment, plus the Gold Coast lifestyle and relocation assistance, and there's plenty to get stuck into.

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Interested?

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What can I earn as an Engineering Manager

📌 Engineering Manager (City of Gold Coast)
🏢 Refactor.
📍 City of Gold Coast