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.

Key Responsibilities

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 elevate 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. Technical

7+ years in full-stack software engineering roles, including 2+ years leading engineers as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager with direct reports Currently hands-on and intending to stay that way
- you have shipped production code recently and want a role where that continues Experience delivering production features using Laravel (Laravel 10+ and PHP 8+) and modern frontend frameworks (React/Next.js) Experience with event-driven systems, asynchronous workflows and message queues (e.g. AWS SQS, Kafka, Pub/Sub) Experience with design systems and frontend architecture Experience with platform engineering or building shared infrastructure in a modular monolith Experience scaling a team
- hiring, onboarding, and building or applying career frameworks Strong command of agile practices and running delivery cycles end to end
- planning, execution, reporting Strong with CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and cloud environments (AWS required) Comfortable owning operational responsibility
- SLOs, alerting, incident response
- for the systems your team runs Track record of managing performance and career growth for engineers at different levels Strategic AI Driven Readiness

Accelerate team delivery through AI pair programming, story automation and AI-assisted planning Influence DevEx strategy around AI tools and secure LLM usage across the engineering team Evaluate build-vs-buy for AI features (e.g.,

📌 Engineering Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Rosterfy
📍 Melbourne