Description
As an Engineering Manager at Rosterfy, you lead one engineering team and directly manage its engineers.
Your team owns a set of domains in the Rosterfy platform — under our domain ownership model that means full-lifecycle accountability for those domains: features, bugs, alerts, SLOs, architecture and long-term health.
This is a hands-on role: you are expected to be in the code every week, not managing from a distance.
You also run the team's rituals and quarterly OKR planning, and own the career development and performance of your direct reports.
Each EM leads a single team.
Being hands-on is a standing expectation of this role.
We expect you to remain a genuinely capable engineer in Laravel (PHP 8+), Next.js and AWS.
You're the trusted advisor to your squad in all facets of Engineering, whether it is Technical discovery, code quality, problem solving, AI tooling etc.
Requirements
Pick up real tickets each sprint — features, fixes, spikes and production issues — sized so you don't become the critical path
Perform regular code reviews and act as a primary technical consultant for the team
Lead technical discovery and solution design with your Lead Engineer and the Principal Engineer, and write the ADRs for your domains
Collaborate with your team to debug and respond to incidents in your domains
Keep current with the codebase and the platform's direction — modernisation, refactoring and platform work included
Directly manage the engineers in your team — regular 1:1s, set explicit role expectations, deliver constructive feedback, conduct performance reviews and create career development plans for each direct report
Hire, onboard and retain great engineers; build an inclusive, high-trust team culture




Coach engineers across levels and create growth opportunities through stretch work and delegation
Own your team's domains end to end — "you build it, you run it": SLOs, dashboards, alert response, bug triage and technical debt within your domain boundaries
Ensure each domain stays documented (README, API contracts, runbooks) and is a genuine centre of expertise in the team
Uphold architectural principles and engineering standards in your domains, and contribute to shared standards across engineering
Coordinate with other domain owners on cross-domain changes and with the Shared Kernel where changes ripple platform-wide
Balance feature delivery against the health of the domains you own, and make that trade-off visible to Product and the Head of Engineering
Facilitate team rituals: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint reviews and retrospectives
Lead quarterly OKR planning for the team and translate company and product goals into measurable outcomes
Own delivery and execution of team goals, including monthly reporting on progress, risks and velocity
Unblock the team, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate delivery risks early
Partner closely with your Product Manager and designer to shape the roadmap, turn product problems into technical solutions, and make scope trade-offs
Work with Customer Success to understand customer impact, prioritise escalations and close the loop on delivered value
Collaborate with other Engineering Managers, the Principal Engineer and the Platform Engineer on cross-cutting technical direction and platform investments
Be the clear escalation point for your domains — support, product and partners know to come to your team
As part of the Engineering leadership team, lead the continuous improvement evolution with your squad.

📌 Engineering Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Rosterfy
📍 Melbourne