About The Role
We're currently looking for a Senior Engineering Manager here at Dispensed to join our team. You will lead engineering across multiple teams building the infrastructure that connects patients to healthcare across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The work your teams ship has a direct line to patient outcomes: faster access to care, more reliable clinical workflows, and a platform that scales as Dispensed expands into new verticals and markets. This is a role with genuine organisational scope, where you will shape how engineering teams are structured, how people grow, and how the function operates as the company moves from startup to multi-vertical platform. If you want to own something meaningful, influence how a healthcare company is built, and develop the kind of team that others want to be part of, this role offers that in full.
What You'll Own
- Lead delivery across multiple engineering teams, managing cross-team dependencies, identifying risks before they surface as problems, and giving leadership honest, reliable forecasts of what will ship and when.
- Engage directly in technical decisions at the architecture and trade-off level, working with senior and staff engineers to assess approaches, pressure-test estimates, and ensure the right calls are being made even when you are not the one writing the code.
- Develop senior engineers toward staff-level contribution and, where you are managing other managers, coach them on the practices and judgement that make people leadership effective over time.
- Run structured performance conversations backed by clear evidence, manage performance issues professionally when they arise, and build a team environment where strong engineers choose to stay and grow.
- Build and maintain a hiring pipeline for your teams, identify capability gaps before they become blockers, and design team structures that reflect the actual shape of the work rather than just available headcount.
- Work alongside product and business stakeholders to shape roadmap and priority decisions, bringing a clear engineering perspective on feasibility, technical risk, and what investment decisions will cost or enable.
- Create visibility into your teams' work without requiring leadership to chase for updates, and surface and resolve cross-functional tensions before they slow down delivery.
What You’ll Need
- 4+ years experience leading multiple engineering teams, including managing Engineering Managers in a scaling environment.
- Strong technical grounding with the ability to contribute to architecture and system design decisions.
- Track record of delivering complex, cross-team initiatives with clear ownership of outcomes.
- Experience developing and building high-performing teams.
- Solid judgement in prioritisation, risk management, and balancing short- and long-term trade-offs.
- Ability to work effectively with product and business stakeholders to drive aligned decisions.
- Clear, concise communicator who creates alignment and visibility across teams.
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Previous experience in a highly regulated industry is preferred.
What We Offer
- Work From Anywhere in Australia.
- A competitive salary and awesome benefits package.
- A supportive and positive work environment.
- Opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Opportunity to transform lives through alternative medicine.