Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in Melbourne, Australia

Salary: AUD $140,000–$170,000 including superannuation, plus equity options

Company

hirify.global builds software and AI agents for construction, infrastructure, and industrial companies, including data capture, safety, quality, field reporting, fleet management, integrations, and mobile workforce products.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering side of a product team and share delivery accountability with the Product Design Manager.
• Plan sprint capacity, sequence work into milestones, estimate delivery, track progress, and surface risks early.
• Remove blockers, support engineers through escalations, and communicate delivery status to stakeholders.
• Run 1:1s, set goals, provide feedback, support development plans, and manage performance issues directly.
• Continue contributing code while maintaining engineering process standards for testing, pull requests, and deployments.
• Collaborate with the Product Design Manager, Tech Lead, and broader platform organization across distributed teams.

Requirements

• Experience managing or leading an engineering team with direct reports or equivalent responsibility.
• Strong delivery management across capacity planning, work breakdown, estimation, tracking, and risk escalation.
• Current hands-on coding ability and experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Angular or React, and MongoDB.
• Experience growing engineers through feedback, goal setting, and career development.
• Willingness to address underperformance directly and constructively.
• Comfort working with shared accountability alongside product counterparts.

Nice to have

• Experience in a scale-up or high-growth product environment.
• Experience managing distributed or multi-time-zone teams.
• Experience improving sprint cadence, release processes, or on-call practices.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work with remote or hybrid arrangements, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year.
• 20 days of paid annual leave, sick leave, carer’s leave, and compassionate leave.
• Paid parental leave, including adoption and stillbirth support.
• Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework.
• Equity options, laptop and home-office setup budget, team lunches, and global offsites.
• Melbourne office facilities include parking, bike storage, wellness and mothers’ rooms, and access to Southern Cross station.

Hiring process

• hirify.global hires directly and does not work with agencies.