Overview
With offices in Australia, the US, and the UK, Smokeball is the leading provider of legal practice management software, helping small and mid-sized legal practices run their best firm and live their best life. We're passionate about what we do, and our clients know it!
Not to brag, but we've just been awarded the best place to work in Australia by Wrk+, and once again, we have been certified as a "Great Place to Work". Culture plays a big part in our success, and our clear purpose and vision motivate us daily.
Role Overview
As our new Engineering Manager, you'll lead a high performing team to design, develop, enhance, and maintain the Smokeball product suite. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical excellence, strong system architecture capability, and people-first leadership to deliver products that delight our clients across Australia, the US, and the UK.
If you love building scalable systems, elevating engineering culture, working cross functionally, and having fun while doing it, this is the role for you!
Responsibilities
* Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Engineers (including Team Leads and Senior Engineers), supporting their technical and professional development
* Oversee and guide software design, architecture, and development practices, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, maintainable solutions.
* Make key architectural decisions for complex systems, collaborating with Product, QA, and other cross-functional teams
* Plan, delegate, and manage engineering projects end-to-end
* Drive improvements across the SDLC, including CI/CD, testing strategies, automation, and process optimisation
* Stay up to date on emerging technologies and evaluate opportunities to enhance our product and engineering efficiency
* Provide technical leadership, act as an escalation point for complex issues, and champion engineering best practice
* Review code to ensure quality, performance, and alignment with Smokeball standard
* Support recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, and team culture initiatives
About You
* Exceptional communication skills, able to collaborate confidently with engineers, product managers, QA, and non-technical teams.
* 12+ years in software development with 6+ years in people leadership.
* A passion for coaching and developing engineers.
* An adaptive, solutions focused mindset, you're comfortable navigating ambiguity and change.
* A team first approach: you enjoy building culture, aligning people, and having a good laugh along the way
What's in it for you?
Wellbeing allowance
Be part of a forward-thinking company that is transforming the legal industry.
Office lunches and loads of snacks
And of course...the S WAG!
Smokeball is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an open, welcoming environment for everyone. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Don't meet all the criteria? No worries! If our values resonate with your personal values and you think you have what it takes, we'd love to hear from you!
Please note: This role is only open to Australian residents. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer sponsorship currently.
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