We’re MYOB, a business management platform designed to unleash the potential of businesses across Australia and New Zealand! As the #originalstartup, our roots are in finance and accounting software, but today we are so much more. We help our Aussie and Kiwi customers unleash their full potential, giving them the tools to Start, Survive and Succeed: all in the one place.
We’re always on the hunt for those who bring a different perspective, diversity of thought and the drive to make our culture even better. Take your career to a new dimension at MYOB.
About the Team
Our Tech team are true heroes. They’ve taken our legacy success and transformed it into an extraordinary SaaS platform to support SME and Enterprise businesses in ways they never knew they needed. By joining the Tech team, you’ll be an integral part of building our all-in-one business management platform.
About the role
This role involves setting the technical direction, making critical architectural decisions, and ensuring engineering practices align with industry standards and best practices. The manager leads by example in technical proficiency, fosters innovation, and mentors team members to enhance their skills in cloud technologies and SaaS development.
Additionally, the manager collaborates closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions. They ensure that the architectural integrity and performance of the cloud-based software meet organisational objectives, delivering exceptional value to users.
Key responsibilities of the Engineering Manager:
As an Engineering Manager at MYOB, your role involves providing both technical and architectural leadership to a team of software engineers. The main objective is to ensure the team designs and develops robust, scalable, and efficient cloud-based software solutions for MYOB's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. This involves various key responsibilities and actions:
- Lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and efficient cloud-based software solutions for SaaS products.
- Set and communicate the technical vision and direction for the engineering team.
- Define and oversee the architecture of cloud infrastructure modern cloud hosing models
Ensure the software architecture supports performance, scalability, and security requirements.
- Implement and promote engineering practices that align with industry standards.
Oversee code quality, testing procedures, and documentation to maintain high development standards.
- Manage team members' performance, career development, and professional growth.
Drive the hiring, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to enhance the team's skills
- Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
- Manage and optimise cloud resources for efficiency and cost-effectiveness through effective cloud management.
The skills you'll need:
- Several years of hands-on experience in software development.
- Proven experience with architecting cloud hosted platforms.
- Demonstrated leadership of skilled development teams in product development.
- In-depth experience in implementing high performance development capabilities, utilising agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience in driving continual improvement of the Product Development lifecycle, ensuring there is strong alignment to business outcomes.
- Experience developing financial or accounting systems preferred.
Our Culture & Benefits
Our values have stood the test of time. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.
🎯 Do your best work in a flexible work environment, right down to financial assistance to set up your home office…it’s called Flexperience, and it’s designed by you and your team!
🎯 Our partnership with Smiling Mind helps support the wellbeing of our team members and customers
🎯 Drive your own learning via conferences, in-house training, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and a strong focus on leaders creating a learning environment
🎯 A multitude of leave options including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, volunteer leave, study leave, plus more!
🎯 Communities built around ‘Wellness’, ‘Belonging’ and the ‘Planet’ where you can make a meaningful contribution
🎯 Access to best-in-class discounts and vouchers from leading retailers, and a lot more.
We are proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to responding to every applicant.
MYOB are an equal opportunity employer and we champion diversity. Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply!
Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At MYOB we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. Moving to ‘Culture Add’ means adding team members who not only value MYOBs standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to MYOB. So, if you’re excited about this role, or about MYOB, we’d still love to hear from you!
