Job Opportunities API

We’re hipages, Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting homeowners with trusted tradies. As an ASX-listed tech company, we're on a mission to transform the trade industry and improve lives. With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs. About the role: As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a portfolio of high-performing software teams across a meaningful domain of the hipages marketplace. Leading through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, you’ll be accountable for people, delivery, technical health, and business outcomes across multiple squads. This is a role for a leader who operates beyond the single-team level. You’ll set technical and delivery direction, develop the leaders beneath you, and connect engineering execution to commercial strategy. You’ll help your teams build reliable, high-quality systems that are well-prioritised, operationally sound, and continuously improving. You’ll also play a key role in shaping how engineering works in an AI-native world. You’ll treat agentic engineering, AI-augmented delivery, and evolving team models as core levers for how your domain operates, not as side experiments. Why join our Engineering team? Hybrid working model   In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program   Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale   How you will add value: Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality.   Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards.   Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.  Partner with senior Product and Design peers to shape domain strategy, challenge scope and sequencing, and ensure engineering effort is invested where it creates the greatest customer and commercial impact.   Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.   Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery.   Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain.   Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes. Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities.   About you: 6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.  Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework.   Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations.   Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you.   You have navigated, or are actively navigating, the shift to AI-augmented engineering and understand how AI changes team shape, throughput expectations, and engineering craft.   You