Engineering Manager

About the Role

You’re an experienced Engineering Manager who loves building software! In this role, you’ll lead a team of talented engineers working on our Network as a Service platform. You’ll be responsible for guiding both the development of new features and products, as well as maintaining and improving existing systems. You’re detail-oriented, care deeply about the product and excel at coaching developers to think like product owners, ensuring their work aligns with user and business needs.

Why Work at Megaport?

Be part of a forward-thinking team that's reshaping the future of global networking. Megaport is committed to innovation, technical excellence, and empowering its employees to grow. Here, you'll work on cutting-edge projects that directly impact the digital transformation journeys of businesses globally. With a focus on nurturing a collaborative culture and maintaining a balanced approach to innovation and tech debt, Megaport offers a dynamic environment for continuous learning, development, and making a real impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and accountability.
• Drive the technical vision in alignment with product goals, collaborating closely with other engineering and product teams.
• Support the career growth of engineers by providing regular feedback, coaching, and development opportunities.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement to identify, develop, and implement process changes to increase efficiency.
• Helping the team proactively pay down tech debt by allocating time and resources to refactor and optimise existing systems to ensure long-term stability and scalability.
• Evaluate new technology and provide input on best practices in developing proposals and strategies for software design activities.
• Grow, develop and retain an incredible team of engineers and foster a culture of excellence and supportive collaboration.
• Coordinate tasks and set team goals with a focus on achieving strategic business objectives.

What We Are Looking For

• Previous experience as a hands-on software engineer with solid technical expertise.
• Proven track record in managing and scaling teams of software engineers, preferably in a product-driven environment.
• Effective time management skills and ability to distribute workload effectively.
• Demonstrated capability to lead, support, and mentor team members.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to align cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing a technical team with the ability to work in a transparent and collaborative manner.

What We Offer

• Flexible working environments.
• Birthday Leave.
• Generous study and training allowance + development opportunities + 5 days paid study leave.
• Creative, fun, and contemporary workspaces.
• Motivated team of industry experts and new talent.
• Celebrated success with ‘Legend’ and ‘Kudos’ Awards.
• Health and wellness program.
• Opportunities for career growth and potential for global intra-company transfers for interested candidates.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]

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