Engineering & Release Lead

Movember's technology team runs a global $100 million annual campaign and a suite of year-round digital products that reach millions of people. As Engineering and Release Lead, you'll sit within Movember's engineering leadership team alongside the Principal Engineer and Solution Architect, reporting to the Director of Technology and Campaign Operations. This newly created role is built around three critical pillars: people leadership of the software engineering team, ownership of release and build management, and accountability for production platform observability and operations.

Responsibilities

Direct line management for Movember's software engineers, running regular one-to-ones, setting clear expectations, and building individual development plans; Work with peer leaders to shape team culture, champion modern engineering practices, and create an environment where experimentation, craft, and continuous learning are everyday realities; Establish and enforce quality gates, release rhythms, and governance processes to ensure only well-tested, approved changes reach production; Implement and embed a "you build it, you run it" model; Own platform monitoring across the production environment, driving continuous improvement in reliability, performance, and incident response; Lead dress rehearsals and disaster recovery testing ahead of major releases and campaign periods; Own the on-call and incident monitoring roster and ensure post-incident reviews drive systemic learning; Ensure the team is operationally ready for the annual campaign, releases are managed to schedule, and nothing is left to chance when it matters most; Help the engineering team achieve outcomes that were previously out of reach with AI and build a culture where AI is a natural part of how work gets done

Requirements

At least five years of experience in software engineering leadership or senior engineering roles, with demonstrated people management responsibility in a technical environment; Demonstrated experience owning release and build management processes, including branch management, quality gates, release governance, and deployment pipelines in a cloud engineering context; Demonstrated experience operating across complex back-end systems incorporating modern AWS patterns, APIs, event streaming, and multi-channel access; Proven ability to build team culture and develop individual engineers, including setting development plans, coaching for performance, and fostering a psychologically safe and high-performing team environment; Hands-on experience with platform observability tooling, including monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, and incident management practices in a production environment; Practical experience implementing or operating a "you build it, you run it" model, including on-call rostering, production incident response, and disaster recovery testing; Comfortable working in a small, peer-led technical leadership team, collaborating effectively with Principal Engineer and Solution Architect counterparts without clear hierarchical boundaries; A strong communicator with the ability to represent engineering team health, release status, and operational metrics to senior stakeholders in a clear and actionable way; A genuine interest in men's health

Nice to have

Experience delivering technology in support of a time-critical annual event or campaign, including readiness rehearsals, live operations, and wind-down; Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering practices, DevOps toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices that underpin modern release management; Exposure to observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana, and experience building or improving production monitoring maturity

Benefits

Superannuation (super); Flexible hybrid working from home and our modern Richmond office; Finish work at 2pm on Fridays (Dec-Aug); NFP salary packaging (pay less tax); 13 weeks paid parental leave and 5 weeks annual leave; Fun & collaborative culture with employee social events; Free Headspace subscription and other wellbeing initiative; Relaxed dress code