Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React
Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React
$240k + 10% bonus | Sydney Hybrid | 2 days in office per week
I'm hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for an established, global SaaS business.
This is a true player-coach role. You'll report to the CTO and lead a team of 10, including an Engineering Team Lead and a QA Lead, while staying hands-on in the code.
People leadership comes first here, with technical depth a close second. You'll still design, build and review, but most of your impact will come through the people around you.
The environment includes C#/.NET, React, Angular across the legacy front end, Azure and modern AI-assisted engineering, with coding, review and QA agents already part of everyday work.
You'll be responsible for:
-
Leading and managing engineers, a QA Lead and an Engineering Team Lead with their own reports, owning their growth, performance and hiring
-
Coaching the Team Lead into full ownership of their area
-
Staying hands-on across the .NET backend and React front end, and stepping in wherever it unblocks the team
-
Owning the team's roadmap commitments and quarterly goals, and raising risk early and plainly when something's slipping
-
Leading the next stage of an AI-driven SDLC, with coding, review and QA agents doing real work under guardrails you own, and measuring what it changes in cycle time, release frequency and quality
-
Partnering closely with Product on the how, the why and the when of what gets built, and with Customer Success and Sales on what's realistic to promise
You'll bring:
-
Several years leading engineers in enterprise or scale-up SaaS, including managing a lead or manager who had their own reports
-
A true player-coach who's shipped production code as a manager in the last two years and can still carry a technical design review
-
Strong commercial C#/.NET and React
-
Strong, demonstrable experience driving agentic engineering in a team you led (Claude Code, Codex or similar), with results to show for it, not just adoption
-
A product mindset: you judge work by what it does for the customer and the business
-
Extremely clear communication with engineers and executives alike
-
Experience leading people across locations and time zones
-
Based in Sydney with full working rights
Highly regarded:
-
Modernising a long-lived .NET codebase or legacy front end
-
Azure, with an eye on cloud cost
The opportunity
-
$240k + 10% bonus
-
Sydney hybrid working, 2 days in office per week
-
Reporting to the CTO, with a real say in how the team and its culture evolve
-
An established SaaS product with significant new development
-
AI-assisted engineering workflows you'll get to shape
-
A fast process with 3 interview stages
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Senior Engineering Manager | .NET / React in Sydney employer: Novus
Join a dynamic Sydney software company as a Delivery Lead, where you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of software delivery across multiple engineering squads in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment. With a strong focus on employee growth and collaboration, this role allows you to make a visible impact while working closely with Product and Engineering teams. Enjoy the benefits of a supportive culture that values innovation and offers the potential for contract extension, all within the vibrant Sydney CBD.
