Enable

Engineering Manager

Enable • NZ
Hybrid
Managing pricing and rebates shouldn’t be a hassle. Enable’s intelligent platform is built for the speed of today’s market, eliminating disconnects between pricing strategy and rebate execution. We help companies to increase profitability and simplify the complex with accurate, AI-powered insights, real-time performance monitoring, agreement optimization, and simplified rebate management.
 
After securing $291M in Series A-D funding and acquiring Flintfox in 2025, Enable is positioned for continued, significant growth. Since the launch of our flagship product in 2016, we have been rapidly scaling our client base, product offerings, and built a team of top-tier professionals committed to reshaping the industry.
 
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Job Summary 

As an Engineering Manager, you'll manage a team of software engineers reporting directly to you. 

You take responsibility for leading projects and project teams. You'll lead and mentor members of your team, to ensure high quality deliverables. You must have expert knowledge of software solution creation, an awareness of automation topics, and have strong communication, time management, and prioritization skills. You'll be responsible for ensuring that key projects and engineering duties are fulfilled. This includes answering technical questions, overseeing estimates for project work, and training for new engineers. You can expect to have direct and ongoing input into the technical roadmap of our product. Identify and plan the adoption of new technologies as well as regularly reviewing current practices. You will work alongside other Engineering Managers to identify short and long-term team objectives, with a focus on quality and iterative improvement. 

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Contribute to recruitment activities, such as interviews and employee onboarding. 
  • Assist with internal promotion activities as new roles become available. 
  • Daily management and HR activities, including the completion of many recurring management tasks.  
  • Lead engineering projects and project teams. 
  • Deliver projects that improve the quality of Enable’s product and minimize defects. 
  • Confidently deliver challenging project requirements within budget. 
  • When tasks are large, break them down into smaller, more actionable parts. 
  • Effectively manage shifting priorities when necessary. 
  • Champion and demonstrate the reduction of technical debt. 
  • Effectively manage a sub team of engineers. 
  • Hold weekly 1:1s with your sub team to provide them the support they need to progress and succeed at Enable. 
  • Understanding the strengths and weaknesses as well as the likes and dislikes of individual team members and organizing work accordingly. This also includes having the ability to lift motivation levels of team members. 
  • Schedule, prepare for, and attend annual appraisals for members of your sub team. 
  • Drive skills development of sub team members. 
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to engage and motivate others. 
  • Be a positive force in the wider Enable team. 
  • Thrive in a collaborative team environment. 
  • Ability to be decisive and make difficult decisions. 
  • Strong technical design capability. 
  • Strong interpersonal skills to manage a team of engineers. 
  • Excellent problem-solving ability. 
  • Be dynamic, ready to respond to ad hoc queries. 
  • Required Education and Experience

  • Multiple years’ experience leading software engineering project teams. 
  • Provable track record of delivering projects to a high standard, with minimal defects. 
  • Be able to demonstrate work that has pushed an organization forward, such as, improving standards, deploying new technologies that are consistent with the roadmap, improving business processes, solid product knowledge, contributions to team OKRs.
  • Coding: At least two languages, one compiled/object orientated programming and one scripting (X++, ABAP).
  • SAP BTP experience.