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Salary: AUD 140,000 - 170,000 / annual
Sitemate is a B2B SaaS company building software and AI agents for construction, infrastructure, and industrial companies. The company operates globally with 200+ employees across Australia, UK, US, and Canada, backed by Blackbird venture capital.
The Engineering Manager leads the engineering side of a product team within Sitemate's Global Platform group, which owns Flowsite (no-code integrations), billing and accounts, user management, and productivity features. You will manage a team of engineers, own their performance, growth, and day-to-day execution, and ensure work moves from "ready to build" through to "shipped and stable" with high quality and predictable cadence. Critically, you will continue delivering code yourself—this is not a hands-off role.
Delivery is shared accountability with a Product Design Manager (PDM), who owns product scope, design, and acceptance criteria, while you own engineering capacity, sprint planning, unblocking engineers, and process quality. You will work closely with a Tech Lead who owns technical quality and architectural direction; you focus on execution and people.
Key responsibilities include: planning and managing sprint capacity with clear, well-sequenced work and estimates; tracking delivery progress and surfacing risk early; acting as the primary escalation point to unblock engineers; running regular 1:1s, managing Sitemate Development Plans (SDPs) and competency matrices, setting goals, and giving consistent feedback; managing performance issues directly and constructively; delivering code consistently to stay sharp and maintain credibility; holding the line on engineering process standards (test coverage, PR quality, deployment practices) in partnership with the Tech Lead; communicating delivery status proactively to stakeholders; staying aligned with the PDM on priorities and trade-offs; and escalating decisions beyond team control to the Product Group Manager.
The role operates in a fast-moving, outcome-driven environment with distributed teams across multiple time zones (Australia, UK, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Canada). You will balance speed with quality and sustainable delivery, operate through influence and collaboration rather than direct control, and help shape how the engineering organization works during its next growth phase. The company values transparency, high velocity, diversity, and continuous learning.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must Have:
- 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 will still deliver 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 (sprint cadence, release process, on-call)
- Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows
Essential Tools:
- Jira or equivalent planning and tracking tool
- Confluence or equivalent documentation practice
- AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
Bonus Tools:
- AWS
- Observability tooling (Clickstack, Datadog, Bugsnag, Sentry)
