Engineering Manager

HomeMade, Mable, Leap in! and Mable Direct are entities under the Attain Healthtech Group of companies. While our companies are diverse, three similarities bind us:

1. We exist to create lasting, positive change across the entire care and support sector - impacting more lives, elevating standards and shaping the future of care

2. We believe in technology as an enabler

3. We’re driven by helping customers attain better outcomes

This position is part of the Mable team.

About Mable

Mable is one of Australia's leading and fastest-growing healthtech platforms. As a purpose-driven company, we are where thousands of people with disability and older Australians have connected with independent support workers of their choosing and on terms that suit them.

With more than 25 million hours of support facilitated since 2014, it's no wonder we have been recognised on the AFR's Top 100, Deloitte Tech Fast 50, were previously awarded Australian Growth & Technology Growth Company of the Year.

By working at Mable, you will join a high productivity and dynamic team environment, leading to meaningful change in Australia's care and support sectors.

To find out more, visit https://mable.com.au/

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated Engineering Manager to join the Leap in! engineering group (part of the broader Attain HealthTech engineering group). The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded technical leader able to work as a technical, team and people leader.

This role reports to the CTO and is responsible for leading multiple Engineering squads both in technical direction and architecture as well as delivery and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

Work as part of the senior engineering leadership team to help build a quality engineering organisation

Assist squad leaders to maintain their backlog providing assistance with architecture and stakeholder management

Collaborate with engineering practice leads to improve core engineering practices across backend, front end, infrastructure and quality practices

Help to monitor squads delivery cadence and work with a team on improving on their efficiency

Promote sound, modern engineering practices and tools within the squads (TDD, pair programming, efficient branching strategies, etc)

Teach and mentor your squads on making sound technology choices, software design practices and the ways of working

Mentor and grow Engineers under your care

Collaborate on and recommend sound DevOps practices in the teams

Manage direct reports - Engineering Team Leads in each of your squads

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Strong technical background in general engineering

Demonstrated experience in delivering large engineering initiatives across multiple teams

Strong technical underpinnings - either through a bachelor of computer science degree or demonstrated self learning

Previous team lead experience

Good understanding of modern CD and software operations practices such as trunk-based development, 12 factor application principles in practice, utilisation of monitoring tools like Datadog, etc.

Excellent communication skills and team-oriented mindset

Have a ‘leave it better than you found it’ attitude towards code