Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React

Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React

$240k + 10% bonus | Sydney Hybrid | 2 days in office per week

I'm hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for an established, global SaaS business.

This is a true player-coach role. You'll report to the CTO and lead a team of 10, including an Engineering Team Lead and a QA Lead, while staying hands-on in the code.

People leadership comes first here, with technical depth a close second. You'll still design, build and review, but most of your impact will come through the people around you.

The environment includes C#/.NET, React, Angular across the legacy front end, Azure and modern AI-assisted engineering, with coding, review and QA agents already part of everyday work.

You'll be responsible for:

- Leading and managing engineers, a QA Lead and an Engineering Team Lead with their own reports, owning their growth, performance and hiring

- Coaching the Team Lead into full ownership of their area

- Staying hands-on across the .NET backend and React front end, and stepping in wherever it unblocks the team

- Owning the team's roadmap commitments and quarterly goals, and raising risk early and plainly when something's slipping

- Leading the next stage of an AI-driven SDLC, with coding, review and QA agents doing real work under guardrails you own, and measuring what it changes in cycle time, release frequency and quality





- Partnering closely with Product on the how, the why and the when of what gets built, and with Customer Success and Sales on what's realistic to promise

You'll bring:

- Several years leading engineers in enterprise or scale-up SaaS, including managing a lead or manager who had their own reports

- A true player-coach who's shipped production code as a manager in the last two years and can still carry a technical design review

- Strong commercial C#/.NET and React

- Strong, demonstrable experience driving agentic engineering in a team you led (Claude Code, Codex or similar), with results to show for it, not just adoption

- A product mindset: you judge work by what it does for the customer and the business

- Extremely clear communication with engineers and executives alike

- Experience leading people across locations and time zones

- Based in Sydney with full working rights

Highly regarded:

- Modernising a long-lived .NET codebase or legacy front end

- Azure, with an eye on cloud cost

The chance

- $240k + 10% bonus

- Sydney hybrid working, 2 days in office per week

- Reporting to the CTO, with a real say in how the team and its culture evolve

- An established SaaS product with significant new development

- AI-assisted engineering workflows you'll get to shape

- A fast process with 3 interview stages

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📌 Senior Engineering Manager |.NET / React (Sydney)
🏢 Novus
📍 Sydney