Engineering Manager Sydney – an onsite role with a competitive package, placed by Big Wave Digital. We are hiring an Engineering Manager in Sydney to lead, mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team.
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager for one of Sydney’s best-kept secrets in fintech. 40,000 active customers. Real transaction volume. Deep into an AI-led transformation. And a genuine desire to build something customers love using every day.
This squad owns the full post-onboarding experience: client portal, mobile app, retention flows, and the core product surfaces customers use daily. If a customer touches it after they sign up, this team built it.
Engineering Manager Sydney: This role is for you if:
- You still think in React. Not just manage people who do.
- You’re comfortable in a .NET C# backend: enough to be self-sufficient across a full feature.
- You’ve shipped mobile. React Native experience means you can speak the language of the whole stack.
- You care about the things most people don’t notice: layout shift, render latency, interaction quality.
- You understand that a faster, more accessible product isn’t just good UX. It’s a retention outcome.
- You want autonomy. Real autonomy. Not managed autonomy.
This role is NOT for you if: – Engineering Manager
- You’re looking for a fully remote role.
- You prefer slower, more deliberate cycles.
- You want to manage at arm’s length from the code.
This is 5 days onsite in Sydney. By design. This team solves problems in the room, in real time. If you like energy, pace, and high standards, you’ll love it here.
The stack – Engineering Manager
React · React Native · .NET C#
The culture
Direct, high-trust, and genuinely fun to work in. No layers. No fluff. Just a great team building something meaningful at pace.
Requirements
- No need for visa sponsorship.
- Working in an onsite setting (Sydney, 5 days a week).
- 1+ years of work experience with C#.
- 5+ years of work experience with React.js.
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Apply now via Big Wave Digital for this role Sydney role. A Big Wave Digital consultant will be in touch about this Engineering Manager position.
What we look for in an role
The right Engineering Manager combines genuine technical credibility with strong people leadership. You will have led software engineering teams before, run effective one-to-ones, and know how to balance delivery pressure with the long-term health of the codebase and the team. Experience setting technical direction, managing stakeholders, and coaching engineers through growth and difficult moments matters as much as any specific tech stack. This Sydney-based, onsite role suits someone who wants to be close to their team day to day, shape how the engineering function scales, and have real influence over hiring, process and architecture decisions.
The team is small enough that your decisions have immediate impact, and established enough that you will not be firefighting from day one. You will work closely with product and the wider leadership group, with the autonomy to shape hiring, delivery practices and technical standards. If you enjoy being hands-on while still leading from the front, and you want a role where coaching and shipping matter equally, this is a strong fit. We are happy to talk candidly about the team, the challenges and the opportunity.
