{"id":2306770,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sitemate-engineering-manager-hybrid-2","title":"Engineering Manager - Hybrid","company":{"id":5986,"name":"Sitemate","domain":"sitemate.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sitemate","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Melbourne, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":170000,"currency":"AUD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":118806},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"WhatsApp","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Cursor","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Sentry","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-11T22:58:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-11","last_verified_at":"2026-10-13T19:47:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Thanks for stopping by and learning more about this role at Sitemate!\nWe'd love to hear from you\nOverview\nBuild What Matters\nThe Engineering Manager leads the engineering side of a product team, reporting to and supporting their Director of Product. They are responsible for the engineers in their team, including their performance, growth, and day-to-day execution, and for making sure work moves from \"ready to build\" through to \"shipped and stable\" with high quality and a predictable cadence, including delivering code themselves.\nDelivery is shared with the Product Design Manager (PDM). The PDM owns the what: product scope, design, acceptance criteria, and production monitoring. The Manager owns the how: engineering capacity, sprint planning, unblocking engineers, and the quality of the engineering process. Both are jointly accountable for timelines and outcomes. When something slips or ships with issues, neither role can point at the other.\nThe Manager also works closely with the Tech Lead, who owns technical quality and architectural direction. The Manager focuses on execution and people. The Tech Lead focuses on technical standards and code quality. In practice these overlap and require close collaboration.\nEmployment:\nFull-time\n\nBased: Melbourne, Australia\n\nRemuneration (Including Super): AUD $140,000 - $170,000 pending your experience\n\nAbout Sitemate\nSitemate builds best-in-class software and AI agents for the built world, helping construction, infrastructure and industrial companies work smarter and faster. Our mission is to multiply the engineering power of the built world.\nStorm is the #1 data capture agent for the front line of the built world - converting audio, photos and videos into clean structured records.\nWith conversational support in-app and across SMS, Whatsapp and phone calls, Storm is shifting front line workers from paperwork and clunky digital forms, to natural language and multi-channel data capture.\nOur core platforms are Dashpivot (safety, quality and field reporting), Gearbelt (fleet and asset management), Flowsite (no-code integrations), and the Sitemate mobile app for every worker on site.\nWe have strong product-market fit, generating thousands of new leads per month through word of mouth and organic channels. We are backed by Blackbird, with 200 people across 18+ countries and entities in Australia, the UK, the US and Canada.\nWhy Join Sitemate\nAt Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.\nWe’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.\nYou’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.\nOur Core Values\nOur core values dictate “how we work”. We believe that basic human values such as honesty, trust and integrity are required to simply ‘get in the door’. Our values are designed to help us determine if an already great person, will be a great fit at Sitemate.\nHandle with Care: Handle with thought and care, decisions are considered and consciously delivered\n\nEverything Engineered: Everything engineered, intentional, planned and systematic\n\nQuality Certified: Do it well, with attention to detail and accuracy, or don’t do it at all\n\nFast Tracked: Fast, incremental, and constant delivery of change\n\nHigh Vis: A high visibility, transparent and open environment\n\nRain, Hail or Shine: Show up for your team, your customers and yourself\n\nLearn more about our values:\nRead:\nOn Sitemate's Values, Culture and DNA\n\nListen:\nUnleashing your Zilla\n\nOn scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture\n\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive, performance-based remuneration\n\nEquity options - own a piece of what you’re helping to build\n\n20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave\n\nPaid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support)\n\nProfessional growth budget and a transparent career development framework\n\nLaptop and home-office setup budget\n\nFlexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year\n\nCommunity & connection - weekly team lunches, global offsites, and our signature “Life Story” sessions\n\nMelbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms, opposite Southern Cross station\n\nDiversity & Inclusion\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Sitemate welcomes people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities, and abilities.\n55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, 43% identify as female, and our team spans ages 22-51. We believe our diversity makes us stronger - and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.\nLearn More About Sitemate\nPodcasts:\n2024: CEO Hartley Pike on scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture\n\n2023: CMO Lance Hodgson on accelerating your career\n\n2022: CTO Tim Bray on building quality features that solve real customer problems\n\nWant to know what it’s like to work at Sitemate? Hear it straight from the team: People of Sitemate\n⭐ Read what our customers say: G2 Crowd, Trust Radius\nTeam Offsites: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025\nWhat this role looks like at Sitemate\nYou'll join Sitemate’s Global Platform team, the group behind the products that every other part of Sitemate relies on. The team’s scope covers Flowsite, our MCP server and OpenAPI, billing and accounts, user management, and productivity features built for our power users and GTM team.\nYou'll run 1:1s with your direct reports, progress Sitemate Development Plans (SDPs) and competency matrix levels, set goals, give feedback, and handle performance issues directly. You'll also plan sprint capacity, make sure work is broken into milestones with estimates, track progress, and surface risk before it becomes a problem.\nWhilst you won’t be leading a feature or on critical path tickets, our engineering managers still actively contributing code and shipping improvements to our customers - this is not a hands off role. You should be able to follow a design discussion, sense when an estimate is off, and know when \"it's nearly done\" isn't. You are not expected to own technical architecture, but you are expected to know when to pull the Tech Lead in.\nTwo shifts are defining what engineering management looks like here:\nForward Deployed Engineering. Teams work closer to customers and ship in tighter loops. Your job is to make sure engineers have real customer signal in front of them, and that the process supports fast iteration rather than adding ceremony to it.\n\nAgentic Engineering. AI is changing what a team of a given size can deliver, which changes how you plan, estimate, and sequence work. You'll need to hold the process standards that keep quality high as throughput goes up, in partnership with the Tech Lead who sets the technical bar.\n\nDay-to-Day\nPlan and manage sprint or cycle capacity, making sure engineers have clear, well-sequenced work broken into milestones with estimates.\n\nTrack delivery progress and surface risk or slippage early, rather than waiting for things to go wrong.\n\nAct as the primary escalation path when engineers are stuck, and remove blockers before they stall delivery.\n\nRun regular 1:1s, progress SDPs and competency matrix levels, set goals, and give consistent feedback.\n\nManage performance issues directly and constructively.\n\nDeliver code yourself. Not as the bulk of your week, but consistently enough to stay sharp and to keep credibility with your team.\n\nHold the line on engineering process standards such as test coverage, PR quality, and deployment practices, in partnership with the Tech Lead.\n\nCommunicate delivery status to stakeholders proactively, and act as the focal point for communication into the engineering team.\n\nStay aligned with the PDM on priorities, sequencing, and any scope or delivery trade-offs.\n\nEscalate to the PGM when decisions or resources sit beyond the team's control.\n\nChallenges\nShared accountability. Delivery is shared with the PDM and technical direction sits with the Tech Lead. You'll get results through influence and close collaboration far more than through direct control.\n\nPeople and delivery pull in opposite directions. Some weeks the sprint wins, some weeks the person does. Judging which is a large part of the job.\n\nPace. Fast-Tracked is a real operating value, so you'll need to balance speed with quality and sustainable delivery for your team.\n\nDistributed teams across Australia, UK, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Canada. Time zones and async communication are part of the role, not an edge case.\n\nOrganisational maturity. Engineering leadership, frameworks, and career ladders are still being established, so you'll be building the plane while flying it.\n\nWho This Role is For\nYou've managed engineers before, or you've been a Tech Lead or Senior engineer already doing the job unofficially and want to make it official.\n\nYou get more satisfaction from a team shipping well than from being the one who shipped it.\n\nYou have difficult conversations early rather than letting things drift.\n\nYou still write code and want to keep doing it alongside leading a team\n\nYou're comfortable owning an outcome jointly with someone else and not needing the final say on everything.\n\nYou're drawn to real-world impact. Our users build wind farms, highways, and mines in 100+ countries.\n\nYou want to shape how an engineering org works through our next phase of growth, not inherit someone else's playbook.\n\nWho This Role isNotFor\nYou want to own architecture and technical direction. That sits with the Tech Lead here. If that's what you're after, the Engineering Tech Lead role is the better fit.\n\nYou want coding to remain the majority of your job. You'll still ship code here, but it isn't the bulk of the role.\n\nYou've moved fully out of engineering. Coding is a reduced part of this job, not an absent one.\n\nYou want full Engineering Manager scope with unilateral control over people, process, delivery, and technology. Ours is deliberately narrower.\n\nYou manage from a dashboard. This role needs someone in the detail with their team.\n\nYou avoid performance conversations or route them straight to HR.\n\nYou want a mature engineering org with a VP of Engineering, established ladders, and defined management frameworks already in place. We're building that, which is the opportunity if you want to shape it and a mismatch if you need it to already exist.\n\nSkills & Tools\nMust Have:\nExperience managing or leading a team of engineers, with direct reports or clear equivalent responsibility\n\nStrong delivery management across capacity planning, work breakdown, estimation, tracking, and early risk escalation\n\nCurrent, hands-on coding ability. 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