Engineering Manager

Full Time Opportunity
We are looking for an Engineering Manager (EM) to lead a team of Engineers in delivering high-quality software solutions that provide value to both our customers and the business.
As an EM, you will play a key role in fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and operational efficiency.
In partnership with a Product Manager, you’ll set the direction for your team, drive successful delivery outcomes, and leverage your technical expertise to guide the team when necessary. Your focus will be on people, technical leadership, and ensuring the health and availability of production systems.
Additionally, you will mentor and guide Associate Engineering Managers, ensuring consistent leadership development across the team.
**Key responsibilities of the role include**:

- Oversee end-to-end delivery of solutions, ensuring quality and alignment with strategies and standards
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term strategic initiatives, including technology modernisation.
- Collaborate with the wider EM leadership team and Product Owner to drive and execute a roadmap aligned to business goals
- Contribute to technical strategy and foster engineering standards and best practices.
- Ensure technical excellence through code reviews and staying updated with industry trends
- Provide feedback, mentor and lead the development of a high-performing engineering team
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality standards

What are we looking for?
**Technical**:

- Typically 7+ years experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or management role tackling people, operational excellence and delivery challenges.
- Strong technical background with expertise in modern software development practices, tools, and technologies. Ideally experience with a variety of technology stacks and programming languages.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering complex software projects on time and within scope.
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies and architectures, specifically AWS and microservices
- Good understanding of database technologies.
- Experience working with various tools to design, orchestrate, test, build, release & monitor your work.
- Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).

**Ways of Working**:

- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and processes, e.g. Scrum, Kanban
- Experience with employing Extreme Programming (XP) practices such as TDD and pair programming.
- Sound knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
- Prior involvement with production support / incident response beneficial.
- Knowledge of good Application Security practices.

Our Promise to Our People
We are passionate about our core values of Customer First, We Care, One Team, and Results Driven, which define how we approach our work.
We recognise that our colleagues are the key to our success. That's why you can expect to be rewarded for the hard work you put in through job satisfaction, career development and the fantastic range of benefits we offer:

- A hybrid working week of in-house collaboration and working from home flexibility
- Your own parking space onsite, or an annual $1200 travel allowance
- Modern building facilities including a dedicated & subsidised on-site company café (weekly free lunch)
- Free access to on-site company gym
- Health & well-being initiatives and programs
- Additional 'flexi-days' of leave acquired through tenure with the business
- Cashback discounts on a range of Insurance products through our Real Insurance brand
- Career development pathways and opportunity to take part in in-house leadership & emotional intelligence workshops
- Quarterly award functions and a grand annual conference to recognise our people
- Retail discounts e.g. movie tickets, easter show, live shows + more
- Morsl market (a fully automated self-serve, food and drink marketplace with a wide variety of meals, snacks and drinks)

Who We Are
Greenstone distributes insurance products under trusted brands in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Some of our brands include: Real Insurance, Australian Seniors, New Zealand Seniors, OneChoice, RSPCA Pet Insurance, Kogan Australia, SPCA Pet Insurance, Prime Pet Insurance, North Cover, FiftyUp, Guardian and Choosi.
We are the leading distributor of direct Insurance products in the Australian insurance market. Since launching into the Financial Services sector in 2007, Greenstone has experienced a commanding volume of growth being recognised for our credible brands, customer focused values and people-driven work culture.
We are passionate about our core values, which contribute towards the positive culture that supports our employees, our customers and our community.
Location
Great central location in Norwest Business Park, Norwest, only a short walk