Senior Engineering Manager

Job description

Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone. 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 in…