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We’re looking for an

Engineering Manager to join our team.

The Position

As an Engineering Manager at HappyCo, you will create the conditions for your team of Product Engineers to do their best work — where engineers feel supported, trusted, and empowered to deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers. You will lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of transparency, ownership, and continuous learning that helps the team grow.

You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers and your peers in Engineering Leadership to enable your team to discover and build solutions that solve customers’ problems, meet our usability standards, are feasible to build, and are viable for our business.

With a focus on transparency and collaboration, you will ensure your team understands the customer problems they are solving and feels confident to ship value early and often. You’ll help your team celebrate success, learn from feedback, and continuously improve how they work together. From refining delivery practices to navigating technical challenges, you will guide the engineering team to do high-quality work that supports the evolution of our product and technology roadmap.

What You’ll Do

Coach & Develop: Support the growth of your team by providing regular feedback and advice, and championing their well being and growth.

Discover, Deliver & Support Enablement: Ensure your team is supported to rapidly discover, build, and deliver product to customers with all team members having a clear understanding of product outcomes.

Enable High-Quality Delivery: Guide teams through effective delivery, including guiding team process, removing blockers and ambiguity, and supporting effective estimation and work break-down.

Risk Management: Ensure team risks are effectively managed, understood and escalated appropriately.

Alignment and Collaboration: Partner with Product and Design to shape solutions that are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. Foster a culture of transparency and collaboration between teams, ensuring dependencies between teams are understood.

Organise & Manage: Maintain suitably staffed teams with the right people in the right seats, and manage recruitment for your teams as required.

What We Think You Need to Be Successful

2+ years of people leadership or technical delivery leadership in software development environments.

5+ years experience in digital, SaaS or engineering roles.

Proven ability to support performance and growth through coaching and structured development.

Experience hiring and nurturing talent across a range of experience levels.

A hands-on approach to technical and people management with experience in both building high quality products and guiding engineers through technical challenges.

Practical understanding of modern engineering practices.

Strong communication skills with the proven ability to build trust and alignment across teams.

Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.

A balanced approach to quality, speed and customer value.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience leading high-performing teams in a SaaS product environment.

Familiarity with our technologies (React, Go, Dart, GraphQL).

Experience working directly with customers or advocates to deepen product understanding.

Ability to mentor engineers in customer empathy and product thinking.

Experience adapting delivery processes to match product maturity and stage.

Additional Information

Our HappyCo Culture & Benefits

HappyCo strives to build better communities. So naturally, we are dedicated to making our own community an enjoyable place that lets us do our best work. We’re devoted to building an inclusive, supportive culture that empowers each HappyCo’er to succeed and grow. To learn more about our culture, check out our

careers page!

We Offer:

- Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the PropTech industry

- Generous paid parental leave

- Competitive and equitable pay, including stock options

- Access to employee assistance programs to support both physical and mental wellness

- Monthly stipends to support Wellness and Home Office expenses

Find out more about our AU Employee Benefits here!

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that HappyCo upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. HappyCo is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to us about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and HappyCo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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