Software Engineering Manager

Are you ready to get the Easygo Edge?

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to own payments at Easygo - a crew surpassing 1,500 globally, powering Stake and KICK, two of the world’s largest online entertainment and livestreaming platforms.

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.

What you’ll build with us:

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.

We know that innovation ignites when we build and create together, in person. This is a full-time opportunity at our Melbourne office. You’ll work right where it all happens, surrounded by our fearless crew shipping high-impact work.

Who is Easygo?

We’re a high-growth, high-velocity tech company with millions of eyeballs on us every day. We’re building the future of fearless tech.

We’re the creators behind some of the most popular brands including Stake, KICK and Easygo Games. While they command a fierce global following, our crew is employed directly by Easygo and that’s where the real fun happens.

We’re always looking for people who are hungry, humble and move fast. People who are ready to Unify, Disrupt and Evolve with us.

With us you’ll grow faster and go further. Your work has impact. And that gives you an edge you can’t get anywhere else.

The impact you’ll make:

• 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.

Your track record:

• 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 that give you the Easygo Edge, so you can build the future of fearless tech with us:

Disrupt: we push boundaries and play to win

• Ballots for major sporting and music events
• Time with our partners and ambassadors, and exclusive office sessions with leading streamers, creators and industry guests
• Spin the Wheel Fridays on your birthday and work anniversary, with prizes up to $1,000 or a car
• EV subscriptions, novated leasing, energy savings through Origin, and everyday discounts and cash back through Paylab Rewards

Evolve: we’re in constant motion, personally and professionally

• The ultimate sandbox: 1 in 3 of our people level up their role every year. If you deliver, you move.
• Market-synced pay, a performance-based bonus and a high-value referral bonus
• 30 days combined annual and personal leave for full-time employees
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers, plus a 12-week return to work with fully paid Fridays off
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, and 7% off Bupa health cover with extras waiting periods waived
• Wednesday massages, a meditation space, parenting facilities, and bike storage, lockers and showers for active commuters

Unify: we move as one and win together

• Daily catered breakfast, free barista coffee, juices and smoothies, and snack walls and drink fridges on every floor
• Pool tables, table tennis, gaming consoles, an F1 simulator, social sports teams and the Corporate Games
• Mid-year and end-of-year celebrations, team budgets for wins and milestones, and a paid volunteer day each year

Benefits apply to Australian-based employees, are subject to eligibility and program terms, and may change.

We play fair. We hire fair.

True to our value of ‘Play fair’ we always hire fair. Our work and our brands are fuelled by our diverse culture. We hire for talent and grit. But we never discriminate. Your race, religion, nationality, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status won’t affect our hiring decision, or your trajectory here. Come as you are and get the Easygo edge.

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.