Engineering Manager

Our Story 🚀

At Safewill, we’re transforming estate planning and end-of-life services through beautifully simple, accessible technology.

Backed by investors including King River Capital, Westpac’s Reinventure Fund, Carthona Capital and Flying Fox Ventures, we’re building a digital ecosystem that makes estate planning more affordable, more personalised and more relevant for modern Australians.

Your Story With Us 🤩

What You’ll Own

• Lead the delivery of multiple initiatives across Engineering, Product and Design.
• Own delivery across the full software development lifecycle, from planning through to release and support.
• Guide architecture and infrastructure decisions, balancing speed, scalability, reliability and cost.
• Coach and develop engineers, support hiring and help build a high-performing team.
• Improve engineering practices, tooling and processes where they create meaningful leverage.
• Partner with Product and leadership to identify technology opportunities that improve customer and business outcomes.
• Contribute to on-call support and help strengthen production reliability.

What You’ll Bring 🥳

You’re an experienced engineering leader who is comfortable operating across people, product and technology. We’re likely to be a strong fit if you have:

• Experience leading engineers in a product-focused software environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and architectural judgement.
• A track record of delivering complex software initiatives end to end.
• Experience coaching engineers and building team capability.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and software delivery practices.
• The ability to make pragmatic trade-offs across quality, speed, cost and complexity.
• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Startup or scale-up experience is highly regarded, as is exposure to regulated or B2B2C environments.

Our Tech Stack

TypeScript, Nuxt / Vue.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, GCP

Why Safewill? 🤝

Our Engineering Culture

• Engineers are involved early - shaping solutions, not just implementing them. You’ll understand the “why”, decide the “how”, and see it through in production
• Work stays with the people who build it. Engineers own it end-to-end; from design through to production and iteration, with tight feedback loops
• Regularly we run Willpower Week, a dedicated time driven by engineers to improve developer experience, tackle tech debt, and fix the things that have been getting in your way.
• Quarterly AI hackathons and team outings to step outside the sprint to build and test new ideas, then connect and recharge together.
• Feedback is part of the everyday; open, direct, and ego-free, all aimed at helping the team continuously improve.
• Weekly opportunities to learn and share, from team demos to focused sessions on new technologies, with space to showcase what you’ve been building.

We live by our SAFE values:

• Speed: We move quickly with purpose
• All-in: We win as a team
• Find the Impact: We focus on what matters
• Elevate: We raise the bar, every day

TL;DR We’re rewriting how Australians deal with death by making estate planning simple, accessible and modern through great technology. At Safewill, you’ll grow faster because you’re closer to the action. You’ll see how strategy becomes execution, how data shapes decisions, and how a small team builds something that genuinely changes lives.