Job Description

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VALD is looking for a talented and passionate Engineering Manager to join our Engineering Team at our Brisbane-based global Headquarters.

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You will play an integral role in the business's continued growth and innovation, demonstrating your skills and expertise in people management and technical leadership. We are looking for someone with a technical background who can help shape the entire Engineering team and provide leadership across technology, people and resource allocation.

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People Management responsibilities:

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- 1:1s and coaching: regular check-ins with each report, mentoring, career development conversations and growth plans.
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- Performance management: feedback, calibration, and management of underperformance.
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- Team health: creating an environment where engineers can do their best work, address team challenges, and resolve interpersonal conflicts.
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Recruiting & Resourcing responsibilities:

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- Own the end-to-end Engineering recruitment pipeline: including job ads, cultural screening, communication and coordination between VALD, candidates and recruiters. Product teams will conduct the technical interviews.
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- Onboarding and offboarding logistics for Engineering staff. This will involve working with the team to ensure new engineers receive effective onboarding and managing offboarding responsibly.
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Engineering Leadership responsibilities:

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- Partner with Technical leads to foster engineering process improvements and technical quality investments in line with industry best practises.
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- Work with the Platform Team and Cyber Security teams to support compliance initiatives and drive follow-through within the engineering team.
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- Support post-incident reviews and follow-up actions owned, prioritised and completed
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Is this you?

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- This is a people leadership and engineering management role, not a hands-on software development position. You will not be expected to regularly write production code or act as a team’s Technical Lead.



Your technical background will enable you to ask effective questions, understand architecture and delivery trade-offs, support sound decision-making and hold a high bar for engineering quality.
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- Solid software engineering background with the technical credibility to engage in discussions around architecture, system design, security, quality and operational reliability. 7+ years of software development experience as an individual contributor, with a demonstrated transition into engineering leadership.
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- Passion for providing high support through coaching, mentoring, and advocating for the career progression of engineers.
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- Able to drive technical excellence, pushing for innovation and quality.
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- You possess the ability to lead through influence, building strong partnerships across Product and Engineering disciplines and contributing technical perspectives to shape shared strategy, not just align with it.
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- High-quality standards with attention to detail.
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- A desire for continuous improvement,
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- Thrive when developing phenomenal people, not just great products.
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Skills and experience that are preferable but not essential

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- Experience leading teams delivering cloud-hosted Software as a Service products, preferably with Azure or other public clouds and deploying to them with infrastructure as code.
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- Experience with high-scale distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architectures.
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- Experience with modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, performance tuning and incident management.
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- Experience supporting teams working across backend, web or mobile technologies.
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- Exposure to regulated, security-conscious or compliance-driven software environments. VALD is compliant with SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA and more.
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- Understanding of Agile principles.
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How we operate

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- VALD’s tech stack is built and hosted on Azure in multiple geographic regions, primarily using Platform as a Service cloud resources.
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- VALD hosts .NET microservices with events.
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- VALD’s web apps are React and TypeScript.
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- VALD’s apps are primarily built in Swift, with some apps in Kotlin and WPF.
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- Stand-ups and Retrospectives.
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- Our teams include full-stack Software Engineers and product owners, who work closely with Mobile Application Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, UX/UI Designers, and the Product team.
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- Work from home options and flexible working hours.
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What’s in it for you/perks?

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- Down-to-earth, inclusive, and vibrant team.
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- Dedicated training budget.
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- Chefs who prepare breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday.
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- In office barista to make your coffee just as you like it.
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- Access to VALD Gym.
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- Subsidised masseuse, and access to physiotherapy & exercise physiology services.
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- Table tennis and basketball hoop.
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- End-of-trip facilities: showers, bike and scooter racks.
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- Conveniently located in Newstead, close to public transport.
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About VALD

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Since its founding, VALD has evolved to provide a range of products and services for elite sports, healthcare, and tactical organizations, collectively serving over 12,000 clinics, hospitals, sporting teams, universities, and government departments across 130+ countries. VALD’s technologies and solutions help over 140,000 clinicians manage more than 2,000,000 patients worldwide. VALD has grown to a team of 500+, expanded internationally with offices in the UK and US, and we’re still growing!

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📌 Engineering Manager (Queensland)
🏢 VALD
📍 Queensland