Software Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

GroupOverview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth is the enterprises dedicated regional interface connecting Australias national security community with Metreas full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace Electromagnetic & Cyber and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement ensuring that as we grow in Australia we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.

Metreas solutions are built for elegance: effective efficient and evolving enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Position Summary

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to provide leadershipforgeospatial data processing and visualisationsteam. Candidates should have knowledge and experience of best practices across the software development lifecycle as well as excellent People Management skills; they can be relied upon to build and maintain an engineering culture which is sustainably professional and positive in which high-performing engineers can grow and thrive.

Metreais a people-first organisation and candidates should havestrong communicationskills and the desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing collaboration feedback and mentorship.

What Youll Do

• Own delivery outcomes for the team; not writing code yourself but driving the team to meet delivery timelines whilst balancing sustainability quality and team well-being
• Mentoring coaching and leading a team of highly talented engineers taking responsibility for both their career and personal development
• Ensure work is well planned resourced and broken down into deliverable increments
• Track progress surface risks early and drive mitigation actions
• Actively remove blockers dependencies and organisational friction that slow the team down
• Balance delivery speed with sustainability quality and team wellbeing
• Conduct regular catchups and check-ins with the team to help support their day-to-day engineering activities
• Helping to align team efforts with the broader strategic goals of the organisation helping to plan for future resource requirements and technology adoption
• Developing and maintaining a deep relationship with the teams Tech Lead and Product Manager to ensure alignment and delivery
• Collaborate with other Engineering Leaders across the business to improve engineering processes code quality release management and documentation
• Supporting the recruitment process and taking responsibility for onboarding and integrating new teammates

What You Bring

• Experience in engineering management having previously mentored and helped to develop the careers of software engineers
• Great interpersonal skills a servant-leadership mindset and the ability to confidently communicate with others conveying technical content clearly and articulately to non-technical team members
• Experience in employing agile methodologies in software development processes whilst working in a matrix organisation to help support the team establish and develop their ways of working
• Experience leading teams in fast-growing companies where you play a part in shaping ways of working rather than follow pre-defined ones
• A deep passion for personal development with a drive to be constantly learning and furthering your professional knowledge
• Strong organisational skills with an ability to work independently whilst planning prioritising and managing your workload

AdditionalEligibilityQualifications

Benefits

• PrivateHealthInsurance
• Generous PTO
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and TPD insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgroundsexperiencesand perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability potential and alignment with our values. If yourequire any adjustments throughout the recruitment process please let us know.