Software Engineering Manager

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Ready to lead in an environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and professional advancement? We're seeking visionary leaders who can guide and inspire talented individuals, fostering an environment that thrives on solving intricate problems, crafting scalable solutions, and collaborating with the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Lead teams tackling projects that push boundaries, encouraging creative solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Collaboration with Industry Leaders: Drive innovation forward by fostering collaboration and idea exchange with top-tier engineers.
• Caring Culture, Career Development: Our culture prioritises your team's growth, offering tailored learning programs and mentorship to elevate their careers.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Encourage your team to embrace challenges, learn from setbacks, and celebrate collective achievements.
• Shape the Future: Your leadership will shape the future of entertainment, contributing to cutting-edge advancements in the industry.

About the Payments team:

The Payments team owns every aspect of how money moves in and out of our global entertainment product - from traditional fiat payments to crypto deposits, withdrawals, and on-ramping experiences that make digital assets accessible to millions of users globally. Operating within a platform handling ~4 billion requests per day, the team works on systems processing ~3,000 bets per second and ~95 billion bets annually, with transaction volumes continuing to grow by tens of millions every week.

Working closely with product managers, designers, and operational teams, you’ll build and evolve highly scalable transaction processing platforms, wallet infrastructure, and seamless payment experiences across both fiat and crypto ecosystems. The team is central to Stake’s global expansion efforts, enabling new markets, currencies, payment providers, and crypto capabilities as the platform continues to scale worldwide.

This is a true “you build it, you run it” engineering environment with end-to-end ownership - from shaping product features and architectural direction through to implementation, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence in production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support multiple engineering squads to deliver high-quality solutions, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
• Mentor and coach team members, including tech leads, helping them grow technically and professionally through feedback, career development plans, and tailored learning initiatives.
• Provide a clear strategic vision, ensuring teams work cohesively toward common goals.
• Contribute hands-on where necessary, including technical design reviews, code reviews, and assisting in critical incident escalations to unblock the team.
• Establish delivery excellence practices, ensuring processes and workflows are effective, efficient, and scalable.
• Promote a culture that encourages learning from challenges, celebrates successes, and drives collective team achievement.

Qualifications:

• Proven software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in building and delivering production systems.
• Proven track record of managing multiple squads of high performing engineering teams.
• Proven experience developing and executing strategic plans for engineering initiatives, aligning them with business objectives.
• Significant experience mentoring and coaching engineers and tech leads.
• Experience solving complex technical and organisational challenges
• Solid understanding of scalable systems, modern development practices, and engineering best practices.
• Effective communicator who can collaborate seamlessly with leaders from other departments, ensuring alignment and effective execution of initiatives.

Benefits:

• Champion Engineering Excellence in one of Australia's fastest growing tech companies.
• Lead teams of Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Terraform, Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
• Exposure to ensuring successful delivery of global, large-scale volume products which consume billions of requests per day.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• EAP access for you and your family.
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses.
• Give back with a paid volunteer day.
• Weekly team lunches.
• Enjoy a bustling office first culture, with flexible start and finish times.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.

Proven software engineering experience with production systems and a strong track record of managing multiple high-performing engineering teams. Significant experience mentoring and coaching engineers and tech leads, developing and executing strategic engineering plans, and solving complex technical and organizational challenges. Solid understanding of scalable systems, modern development practices, and engineering best practices, with effective communication and collaboration skills.