About Smokeball
With offices in Australia, the US, and the UK, Smokeball is
the leading provider of legal practice management software, helping small and
mid-sized legal practices run their best firm and live their best life. We’re
passionate about what we do, and our clients know it!
Not to brag, but we’ve just been awarded the best place to
work in Australia by Wrk+, and once again, we have been certified as a “Great
Place to Work”. Culture plays a big part in our success, and our clear purpose
and vision motivate us daily.
Role Overview:
As our new Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a high
performing team to design, develop, enhance, and maintain the Smokeball product
suite. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll combine
technical excellence, strong system architecture capability, and people-first
leadership to deliver products that delight our clients across Australia, the
US, and the UK.
If you love building scalable systems, elevating engineering
culture, working cross functionally, and having fun while doing it, this is the
role for you!
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Engineers (including Team Leads and Senior Engineers), supporting their technical and professional development.
- Oversee and guide software design, architecture, and development practices, ensuring the deliveryof high-quality, scalable, maintainable solutions.
Make key architectural decisions for complex systems, collaborating with Product, QA, and other cross-functional teams.
- Plan, delegate, and manage engineering projects end-to-end.
- Drive improvements across the SDLC, including
- CI/CD, testing strategies, automation, and process optimisation.
- Provide technical leadership, act as an escalation point for complex issues, and champion engineering best practices.
- Review code to ensure quality, performance, and alignment with Smokeball standards.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, and team culture initiatives.
About You
- Experienced engineering leader who loves
building impactful products and strong teams.
- Strong technical background with deep expertise in modern software development (e.g., C#, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS serverless architecture).
Architectural capability, able to design scalable, maintainable, high performing systems.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to collaborate confidently with engineers, product managers, QA, and non‑technical teams.
- 12+ years in software development with 6+ years in people leadership.
- A passion for coaching and developing engineers.
- An adaptive, solutions focused mindset, you’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and change.
- A team first approach: you enjoy building culture, aligning people, and having a good laugh along the way.
What’s in it for you?
💵 Competitive Salary
🧘 Wellbeing allowance
💭 Be part of a forward-thinking company that is transforming the legal industry.
🌴 Reboot Days & Birthday Leave
👪 Paid Parental Leave
🥡 Office lunches and loads of snacks
🧢 And of course…the SWAG!
*Smokeball is an equal opportunity employer and is
committed to providing an open, welcoming environment for everyone. We are
committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital
status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Don’t meet all the criteria? No worries! If our values
resonate with your personal values and you think you have what it takes, we’d
love to hear from you!
Please note: This role is only open to Australian residents.
Unfortunately, we are not able to offer sponsorship currently.
