Everbridge is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to join our Auckland engineering team. This role is ideal for a technical leader who wants to stay close to the code while also taking on people leadership responsibilities, helping a team deliver high-quality software and grow in capability. You will be part of a team dedicated to developing our agentic AI platform used by our SaaS solution.
Our technology stack is diverse, and we value engineers who are adaptable and eager to embrace new challenges with a technology-agnostic approach. While the project you will be working on utilizes AWS Bedrock, React, Node.js, Java and Python, we encourage applications from candidates experienced in other technologies.
What you'll do:
- Lead and support a team of engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and day-to-day guidance while fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Contribute directly to the design, development, and delivery of high-quality applications and APIs, remaining hands-on with architecture and coding where needed.
- Drive technical discussions and provide leadership on architecture, scalability, quality, and engineering best practices.
- Support delivery execution by removing blockers, coordinating with cross-functional partners, and ensuring the team can deliver reliably and sustainably.
What you'll bring:
- Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading technical direction and delivering production systems.
- Experience leading engineers through coaching, mentoring, and performance conversations, with previous people management experience preferred.
- Strong technical credibility, with the ability and willingness to contribute code, review designs, and guide implementation details.
- Experience balancing people leadership, technical decision-making, and delivery management in a modern software engineering environment.
- Interest in solving complex problems that help keep people safe.
- A collaborative leadership style, with a focus on building team capability, ownership, and accountability.
- Experience working in large code-base products or enterprise-grade software, with an appreciation for quality, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Experience with cloud platforms, with AWS experience being preferred.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including leading technical direction and delivering production systems.
- Experience leading engineers through coaching, mentoring, and performance conversations.
- Previous people management experience.
- Strong technical credibility with ability and willingness to contribute code, review designs, and guide implementation details.
- Experience balancing people leadership, technical decision-making, and delivery management.
- Collaborative leadership style focused on building team capability, ownership, and accountability.
- Experience working in large code-base products or enterprise-grade software, valuing quality, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS experience preferred).
- Interest in solving complex problems that help keep people safe.
- Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, React, Node.js, Java, and Python (project technologies).
Everbridge Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Everbridge and has not been reviewed or approved by Everbridge.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage appears broad, with medical, dental, vision, telehealth, disability, life/AD&D, and FSA/HSA options described. Wellness elements like an EAP and mental-health support are also included, which can add practical value beyond base pay.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) plan with employer matching and an ESPP, indicating multiple ways to build longer-term financial value. Match details are sometimes specified externally, but the presence of a match and purchase program is consistently referenced.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include flexible PTO plus paid volunteer time, providing both personal flexibility and community-focused leave. Paid holidays and new-hire PTO amounts are also described in some materials, suggesting a reasonably complete time-away menu.
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What We Do
Keeping People Safe and Businesses Running. Faster. Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,300 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans.
