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# Senior Engineering Manager at hipages Group

- **Company:** hipages Group
- **Location:** Sydney New South Wales, Australia
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hipagesgroup/jobs/8138274

## Job description

Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone.

With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.

About the role:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a portfolio of high-performing software teams across a meaningful domain of the hipages marketplace. Leading through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, you’ll be accountable for people, delivery, technical health, and business outcomes across multiple squads.

This is a role for a leader who operates beyond the single-team level. You’ll set technical and delivery direction, develop the leaders beneath you, and connect engineering execution to commercial strategy. You’ll help your teams build reliable, high-quality systems that are well-prioritised, operationally sound, and continuously improving.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping how engineering works in an AI-native world. You’ll treat agentic engineering, AI-augmented delivery, and evolving team models as core levers for how your domain operates, not as side experiments.

Why join our Engineering team?

- Hybrid working model
- In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth
- Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
- Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data and Commercial teams
- The opportunity to shape how engineering teams adopt AI-native ways of working at scale

How you will add value:

- Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them as leaders and holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and technical quality.
- Own technical and architectural direction across your domain, ensuring designs are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned to hipages’ standards.
- Set the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, incident response, and operational health.
- Partner with senior Product and Design peers to shape domain strategy, challenge scope and sequencing, and ensure engineering effort is invested where it creates the greatest customer and commercial impact.
- Own end-to-end delivery across multiple teams, including planning, execution, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
- Build and maintain a clear technical roadmap that balances architecture, operational health, and feature delivery.
- Identify and manage cross-team risks early, including dependencies outside your domain.
- Ensure teams have clear, measurable OKRs that ladder up to coherent domain outcomes.
- Lead AI-forward ways of working by helping teams understand how AI changes throughput, team shape, roles, skills, and product opportunities.

About you:

- 6+ years’ experience in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or Engineering Managers, ideally in a product-led technology business.
- Lead delivery through outcomes, not process, and are comfortable applying modern agile principles at multi-team scale without relying on a rigid framework.
- Strong technical foundation and can earn the respect of senior engineers, challenge architectural decisions, and make credible build, buy, or defer recommendations.
- Proven experience developing Engineering Managers, not just engineers, and you enjoy multiplying your impact through the leaders below you.
- You have navigated, or are actively navigating, the shift to AI-augmented engineering and understand how AI changes team shape, throughput expectations, and engineering craft.
- You communicate with credibility across senior stakeholders and can translate technical complexity into business stakes without oversimplifying.
- You bring strong commercial judgement and can connect engineering investment to customer and business outcomes.
- You are comfortable prioritising ruthlessly when resources are constrained and can explain the trade-offs clearly.

Life at hipages:

We’re more than just a workplace. We’re a place where you can be yourself, do great work and grow your career. Recognised as a Great Place to Work, our inclusive, supportive culture helps people thrive.

You’ll use the best tools and tech, with real impact on our products and customers. We invest in your development and lead with coaching, not micromanagement. It’s why 85% of our team say their leader is great.

And there’s more:

- Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems
- Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows
- Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more
- Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit
- Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations
- Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects
- A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it

We prioritise Diversity:

At hipages, innovation and collaboration thrive in diverse and inclusive teams. We don’t expect you to know everything - we care more about who you are as a person, a team member, and a leader.

We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 for supporting women’s careers and we value diversity across culture, age, gender identity and sexual orientation.

Research shows that men often apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and minority groups wait until they tick every box. If you think you’d be a great fit - even if you don’t meet every requirement - we’d love to hear from you.

We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.

#LI-JL1 #LI-Hybrid

## About hipages Group

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: hipages Group operates Australia and New Zealand's leading online marketplace connecting homeowners with trusted tradies, while providing digital tools to help trade businesses run more efficiently.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ASX: HPG)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, Australia
- **Founded**: 2004
- **Founders**: Roby Sharon-Zipser and David Vitek

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Home improvement marketplace and trade technology (Software Development).
- Target customers: B2C (homeowners) and B2B/SMB (tradies and trade businesses).
- Mission: "to transform the trade industry, building better lives for everyone."

## Products & Services
- **[hipages marketplace]**: Online platform where homeowners post home improvement jobs and connect with local, trusted tradies. Over 12 million jobs posted since launch.
- **[Builderscrack]**: New Zealand's leading tradie marketplace, acquired in 2021, extending the Group's trans-Tasman presence.
- **[hipages tradiecore]**: Australia's first all-in-one app for tradies combining lead management and job management (SaaS).
- **[hipages energy]**: A new service helping Australians compare and save on energy bills.
- **Partnership services**: Integrated access to third-party services including insurance, materials, accounting, and business tools for tradies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (public company; no current market cap in provided data).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $44.3M (LinkedIn estimate) and over 33,000 tradie members on the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: News Corp became an investor in 2024; NSW Department of Education selected hipages as preferred platform for the 'Local Trades Scheme'.
- **Growth Signals**: 222 employees (+6% YoY); offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City; acquisition of Builderscrack; launch of tradiecore and hipages energy; expansion into SaaS and partnerships.

## Competitive Advantages
- #1 platform in Australia and New Zealand for connecting homeowners with tradies, creating strong network effects.
- 21-year track record and brand trust with over 4 million Australian homeowners and 33,000 tradies.
- Comprehensive ecosystem combining marketplace, SaaS job management, and integrated third-party services.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling from a pure marketplace to a SaaS-driven platform (tradiecore) to deepen value for tradies.
- Expanding strategic partnerships (insurance, materials, accounting) to create an all-in-one operating system for trade businesses.
- Digitising the traditionally offline trade industry and entering adjacent areas like energy comparison.

## Why Work Here
- Award-winning culture: Great Place to Work® 2025, Work180 #1 Employer for Women 2025, HRD Employer of Choice 2025, and Top 3 Best Places to Work (2021–2023).
- Flexible hybrid model: 50/50 split (5 days in office, 5 days from home per fortnight) for most roles; sales roles have in-office onboarding.
- Benefits: 14 weeks paid parental leave, competitive compensation, Perkbox reward and recognition program, wellbeing perks, and in-office amenities.
- Diversity & Inclusion: 45/55 gender balance overall, 50/50 gender split at board level with a female Chair, WGEA certified with $0 gender pay gap for same roles.
- Career growth: Dedicated in-house Talent Development team, personalised development plans, strong leadership development, and opportunities to lead and innovate.
- Offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City – vibrant, collaboration-focused spaces named after tradies.
- Hiring process: 4-step process (TA interview, hiring manager, skills assessment, final interview) designed to be a two-way conversation.

## Sources
1. [hipagesgroup.com.au - About us](https://hipagesgroup.com.au/about-us/)
2. [hipagesgroup.com.au - Careers](https://hipagesgroup.com.au/our-team/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com - hipages Group](https://au.linkedin.com/company/hipagesgroup)
4. [hipagesgroup.com.au - Company Culture](https://hipagesgroup.com.au/our-team/company-culture/)
5. [hipagesgroup.com.au - Our team](https://hipagesgroup.com.au/our-team/)

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