Software Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia. 

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us. 

Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.  

Position Summary

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to provide leadership for geospatial data processing and visualisations team. Candidates should have knowledge and experience of best practices across the software development lifecycle, as well as excellent People Management skills; they can be relied upon to build and maintain an engineering culture which is sustainably professional and positive, in which high-performing engineers can grow and thrive. 

Metrea is a people-first organisation and candidates should have strong communication skills and the desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing, collaboration, feedback, and mentorship. 

What You'll Do

• Own delivery outcomes for the team; not writing code yourself but driving the team to meet delivery timelines whilst balancing sustainability, quality and team well-being
• Mentoring, coaching and leading a team of highly talented engineers, taking responsibility for both their career and personal development
• Ensure work is well planned, resourced, and broken down into deliverable increments
• Track progress, surface risks early, and drive mitigation actions
• Actively remove blockers, dependencies, and organisational friction that slow the team down
• Balance delivery speed with sustainability, quality, and team well‑being
• Conduct regular catchups and check-ins with the team to help support their day-to-day engineering activities
• Helping to align team efforts with the broader strategic goals of the organisation, helping to plan for future resource requirements and technology adoption
• Developing and maintaining a deep relationship with the team’s Tech Lead and Product Manager to ensure alignment and delivery
• Collaborate with other Engineering Leaders across the business, to improve engineering processes, code quality, release management and documentation
• Supporting the recruitment process and taking responsibility for onboarding and integrating new teammates

What You Bring

• Experience in engineering management, having previously mentored and helped to develop the careers of software engineers
• Great interpersonal skills, a servant-leadership mindset and the ability to confidently communicate with others, conveying technical content clearly and articulately to non-technical team members
• Experience in employing agile methodologies in software development processes whilst working in a matrix organisation to help support the team establish and develop their ways of working
• Experience leading teams in fast-growing companies where you play a part in shaping ways of working rather than follow pre-defined ones
• A deep passion for personal development with a drive to be constantly learning and furthering your professional knowledge
• Strong organisational skills with an ability to work independently whilst planning, prioritising and managing your workload

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Experience working on geospatial visualisation products
• Prior experience in working with defence contracts is a plus
• Ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 AGSVA security clearance  

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous PTO
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and TPD insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing 

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know. 

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.