The Engineering Manager leads the engineering side of a product team, reporting to and supporting their Director of Product. They are responsible for the engineers in their team, including their performance, growth, and day-to-day execution, and for making sure work moves from 'ready to build' through to 'shipped and stable' with high quality and a predictable cadence, including delivering code themselves. Joins Sitemate's Global Platform team, the group behind the products that every other part of Sitemate relies on.
Responsibilities
Plan and manage sprint or cycle capacity, making sure engineers have clear, well-sequenced work broken into milestones with estimates; Track delivery progress and surface risk or slippage early; Act as the primary escalation path when engineers are stuck, and remove blockers before they stall delivery; Run regular 1:1s, progress SDPs and competency matrix levels, set goals, and give consistent feedback; Manage performance issues directly and constructively; Deliver code yourself, consistently enough to stay sharp and keep credibility with your team; Hold the line on engineering process standards such as test coverage, PR quality, and deployment practices, in partnership with the Tech Lead; Communicate delivery status to stakeholders proactively and act as the focal point for communication into the engineering team; Stay aligned with the PDM on priorities, sequencing, and any scope or delivery trade-offs; Escalate to the PGM when decisions or resources sit beyond the team's control
Requirements
Experience managing or leading a team of engineers, with direct reports or clear equivalent responsibility; Strong delivery management across capacity planning, work breakdown, estimation, tracking, and early risk escalation; Current, hands-on coding ability. You'll still be delivering code, and understand best practices; Hands-on background in Javascript / TypeScript, Node.js, Angular or React, MongoDB; Track record of growing engineers through feedback, goal setting, and career development; Willingness to handle underperformance directly and constructively; Comfort operating in shared accountability with product counterparts
Nice to have
Experience in a scale-up or high-growth product environment; Experience managing distributed or multi-timezone teams; Experience improving engineering process such as sprint cadence, release process, or on-call; Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows
Benefits
Competitive, performance-based remuneration; Equity options; 20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer's, and compassionate leave; Paid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support); Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework; Laptop and home-office setup budget; Flexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year; Community & connection - weekly team lunches, global offsites, and 'Life Story' sessions; Melbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms
Australia · Melbourne
