Software Engineering Manager

This is a full time role with hybrid working 3 days a week in our Sydney office (Surry Hills).

Everlab is an Australian healthtech startup building the platform to look after peoples health for their entire lives. Its not just an app its the infrastructure connecting every available healthcare service to give you comprehensive data on your health and provide personalised care.

Weve had a 23x increase in revenue since June 2025 and recently announced our $65m Series A round making this an exciting time to join Everlab as we expand globally.

Youll lead a single squad owning its delivery its health and its people and youll do that through a durable system rather than through heroics in partnership with a Tech Lead who owns the squads technical direction. This is a foundational hire as Everlab introduces engineering management so alongside running your own squad youll have real scope to help define how the function works from the operating rhythm to career expectations to how we hire and grow engineers as the team scales.

Day to day that means planning and unblocking so the squad ships predictably setting goals and an operating rhythm with your Tech Lead and keeping the why legible so everyone understands the reasoning behind the work in front of them. Youll be technically credible enough to engage in design decisions and surface risk without needing to out-code the team and close enough to the work to recognise when a delivery problem is really a technical one.

People management sits squarely with you: performance careers hiring retention and the difficult conversations handled early and honestly rather than left to fester. Youll grow engineers deliberately sponsoring the people ready to stretch and coaching the ones who are stuck and youll make effective use of AI the squads default way of working as genuine everyday practice rather than box-ticking. Were building in regulated healthcare so privacy and safety are part of how your squad works rather than a step at the end.

What You Will Do

• Own the squads delivery and health: planning unblocking and an operating rhythm that ships predictably with the system doing the work rather than individual heroics.

• Own people management: performance careers hiring retention and the difficult conversations handled early and honestly.

• Set the squads goals and rhythm: work with the Tech Lead to define what the squad is aiming at and how it operates and keep the why legible to everyone in it.

• Grow engineers deliberately: sponsor the people who are ready to stretch coach the ones who are stuck and make career progression something engineers can see rather than guess at.

• Make effective use of AI the squads default: build genuine everyday practice into how the team works not box-ticking and share what works with the wider engineering group.
  

What Were Looking For

• Engineering management experience: youve managed software engineering teams with genuine ownership of both delivery and people growth in startup or scale up company environments.

• Predictable delivery: you have a track record of shipping predictably through process and system rather than heroics and you can show us what you put in place and why it held.

• Technically credible: you can engage in design decisions and surface risk with your team without needing to out-code them and you know when a delivery problem is really a technical one.

• Strong people-management craft: honest feedback real coaching and hiring youre accountable for including the conversations most managers put off.

• Takes healthcare seriously: you understand the responsibility that comes with building in a regulated healthcare environment and you treat privacy and safety as part of how the squad works.

• Bonus points: experience introducing or maturing engineering management practice in a scaling organisation and familiarity with our stack of TypeScript GraphQL React and GCP.
  

Why Its Great to Work at Everlab

• Do work that matters: were building the future of preventive health. Use your skills to prevent disease improve access to personalised care and reduce pressure on the health system.

• Work-life flexibility: hybrid working with 3 days in the office plus flexibility to manage life beyond the 9 to 5 when it matters.

• Experience Everlab as a customer: full access to the Everlab health program provided after successfully passing probation.

• Share in our success: Employee Share Option Plan included as part of your total remuneration. We grow together.

• People youll love working with: a welcoming mission-driven team of smart thoughtful people doing meaningful work.