Software Engineering Manager

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Ready to lead in an environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and professional advancement? We're seeking visionary leaders who can guide and inspire talented individuals, fostering an environment that thrives on solving intricate problems, crafting scalable solutions, and collaborating with the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Lead teams tackling projects that push boundaries, encouraging creative solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Collaboration with Industry Leaders: Drive innovation forward by fostering collaboration and idea exchange with top-tier engineers.
• Caring Culture, Career Development: Our culture prioritises your team's growth, offering tailored learning programs and mentorship to elevate their careers.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Encourage your team to embrace challenges, learn from setbacks, and celebrate collective achievements.
• Shape the Future: Your leadership will shape the future of entertainment, contributing to cutting-edge advancements in the industry.

This is an entry-level Engineering Manager role, ideal for a Technical Team Lead or experienced engineer with strong mentoring experience who is looking to step into people management.

• Lead and support engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions while fostering collaboration and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentor and coach team members, helping them grow technically and professionally through feedback, career development plans, and tailored learning initiatives.
• Contribute hands-on where necessary, including PR reviews, code reviews, and assisting in critical incident escalations to unblock the team.
• Establish delivery excellence practices, ensuring processes and workflows are effective, efficient, and scalable.
• Promote a culture that encourages learning from challenges, celebrates successes, and drives collective team achievement.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in building and delivering production systems.
• Proven experience operating as a Technical Team Lead or senior engineer, with hands-on involvement in system design and development.
• 1–2 years of experience mentoring or coaching engineers, with exposure to performance feedback and development planning.
• Strong coding and system design skills, with the ability to contribute directly when needed, especially during critical incidents.
• Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining engineering quality standards.
• Solid understanding of scalable systems, modern development practices, and engineering best practices.
• Effective communicator who can work closely with engineers, product, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical work with growing leadership responsibilities

Benefits:

• Champion Engineering Excellence in one of Australia's fastest growing tech companies. 
• Lead teams of Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Terraform, Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
• Exposure to ensuring successful delivery of global, large-scale volume products which consume billions of requests per day.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
• EAP access for you and your family
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
• Give back with a paid volunteer day
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
• Enjoy a bustling office first culture, with flexible start and finish times
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.