Fuel50 is hiring a
Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Fuel50 as an Engineering Manager in New Zealand to lead a team of talented engineers, focus on team growth, technical leadership, and the delivery of high-quality products. Collaborate with various teams and enjoy flexible working hours, remote work opportunities, employee stock options plan, day off on your birthday, annual company celebration day, quarterly 'Refuel Days', career and development planning, progressive parental leave policy, comprehensive health insurance, family and friends pizza nights, and a culture of continuous feedback and recognition.

Requirements

• 3+ years of proven experience in a people leadership role
• 6+ years of experience in the software industry
• Knowledge of SaaS architecture and proficiency in some of the following technologies: Java, Angular, MySQL, CI/CD, Docker, and Linux
• Demonstrated ability and passion for conducting code reviews, opening pull requests, and enhancing pipelines and tooling
• Experience in technical roadmap planning and delivery management
• Proven track record of setting and driving OKRs
• Experience participating in architectural reviews and scoping sessions, with the ability to write clear requirement briefs for new features
• Demonstrated ability to foster psychological safety and continuous feedback among direct reports and peers
• Passion for efficiency, automation, and improving processes
• Ability to facilitate the RFP and sales processes by answering technical questions from clients regarding product features, architecture, and security
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to develop and coach a team, and build positive working relationships with direct reports, mentees, and collaborators across the company
• Participation in a culture of continuous feedback with your reports and manager
• Willingness to travel to our Takapuna office as required for planning

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of AI, full-stack, and front-end engineers
• Facilitate feature delivery, understand product goals, and identify measurable outcomes
• Collaborate with platform engineers to ensure scalability and reliability of applications
• Gather requirements, brainstorm ideas, and empower the team to deliver features into production
• Tackle complex challenges such as incorporating AI, scaling our application, ensuring high availability, and implementing observability and monitoring
• Address interesting problems like zero-downtime migrations, refactoring code into microservices, and automating processes with CI/CD

Benefits

• Day off on your birthday, your Fuel50 anniversary and a company-wide celebration day
• A 'Refuel Day' once a quarter to relax and refuel
• Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP)
• Remote working and flexible working times - we're very supportive of school commitments, traveling in off-peak hours, looking after family and attending to life's events
• Career and development planning, using our very own Fuel50 software and online Fuellie University
• A very progressive parental leave policy - get extra flexibility and time off on top of what your local government already mandates
• Comprehensive fully subsidised Health Insurance with Southern Cross
• Family and friends pizza nights once a month (at our HQ in Takapuna) - bring your best mate, significant other, kids, or yourself for pizza, table tennis, and pool