Senior Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a team of software engineers and a Solution Architect to build applications, integrations, and AI capabilities. You will manage engineering delivery and partner with product managers to support commercial and customer operations.

What you will do

• Lead, coach and develop software engineers and Solution Architect
• Own engineering delivery and turn priorities into plans
• Partner with Senior Product Manager and Ecosystem Manager to scope solutions
• Guide design and architecture with the Solution Architect
• Build and improve applications, integrations, services, and AI capabilities
• Set engineering standards for quality and maintainability
• Own operational health, monitoring, incident response, and reliability
• Balance new capabilities, technical debt, and platform improvements
• Lead hiring and onboarding
• Work with the Head of Ecosystem and AI to shape technical direction

Required qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers, coaching people, managing performance, and building strong teams
• Strong engineering depth to challenge designs, review approaches, and solve complex problems
• Experience delivering applications, APIs, and integrations from discovery through to production and ongoing support
• Sound architectural judgement, balancing speed, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Experience managing delivery across multiple projects, making trade-offs clear and addressing risks early
• Ability to turn ambiguous business problems into clear technical work with product and business stakeholders
• A practical approach to engineering standards, testing, deployment, observability, and documentation
• Clear communication and collaborative energy

Nice to have

• Experience building internal applications or tools for commercial and customer teams
• Experience integrating with Salesforce, finance, marketing, or other critical business systems
• Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered applications, agents, or automation
• Experience with TypeScript, Python, cloud infrastructure, and modern application architectures
• Experience supporting software across markets, including localisation
• Experience growing an engineering team in a fast-paced tech scale-up

Benefits

• Remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan
• Southern Cross Health Insurance
• Annual $1000 self-development budget
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave
• Wellness leave
• Unlimited paid annual leave

About the company

Halter is an ag-tech company that enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations through an ecosystem of custom applications and AI-powered capabilities.