[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Aphex

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to partner with our CTO and tech leads in scaling from 20 to 40+ developers. This isn't a pure management role - you'll spend 30-40% of your time in the codebase while building the operational foundations for great engineering at scale.

You're a senior developer who happens to be great at the people and process side. You understand the magic in our codebase because you're in it regularly.

What you'll do

• Stay Technical (30-40%)
  • Review PRs, pair on complex problems, contribute to critical features
  • Partner with our CTO on technical vision and architecture
  • Maintain deep technical credibility through regular code contributions
• Team Growth
  • Partner with our CTO and 5 tech leads to help them grow as leaders
  • Own performance reviews, goal setting, and compensation
  • Design career frameworks from junior to senior to lead
  • Drive recruitment - you'll be in the technical interviews
  • Create onboarding that gets engineers productive quickly
• Operational Excellence
  • Establish processes that enable autonomy without sacrificing alignment
  • Track engineering metrics in service of outcomes, not bureaucracy
  • Partner with Product to align capacity with priorities
  • Own tooling decisions and remove obstacles
• Culture & Communication
  • Protect our engineering culture of ownership, quality, and collaboration
  • Keep our remote-first Philippines-based team connected and aligned
  • Champion engineering needs at the management level

Qualifications

• 8+ years development experience, 2+ years leading engineering operations
• Track record scaling teams (20-100 developers) while keeping quality high
• Deep fluency with modern development (React, TypeScript, Node.js, serverless, GCP)
• Experience building performance management that actually helps engineers grow
• Solid async communication for distributed teams

Requirements

• You still see yourself as a developer - you miss the code when away from it too long

Benefits

• Remote-first role working with our Melbourne based CTO and thriving Philippines-based engineering team (20+ and growing)
• Flexible working hours with async collaboration
• Join a team that takes ownership, focuses on quality, and genuinely enjoys solving hard problems together
• 2x Annual Team Offsites - all expenses paid adventures to connect in person
• Monthly online socials with Airwallex card for team lunches and activities
• Macbook pro
• Ongoing learning and training opportunities, including a training allowance Aphex covers