Redbubble & TeePublic Marketplaces

Redbubble and TeePublic have recently been brought together under one structure called Marketplaces. Through redbubble.com and teepublic.com, independent artists are able to reach a new universe of adoring fans and profit from their creativity. Our community of passionate creatives sell uncommon designs on high-quality everyday products such as apparel, stationery, housewares, bags and wall art. For the artists' customers, it's the ultimate in self-expression. A simple but meaningful way to show the world who they are and what they care about.

Welcome to a place that will celebrate your achievements, celebrate you solving the hard problems not just the fixes and celebrate you rapidly getting to the core of the issue rather than striving for the perfect answer.

The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Search & Content team - a cross-functional group of 5 engineers and data scientists working closely with a dedicated product manager. This team plays a critical role in our marketplace, directly shaping how customers discover and connect with the art and products they love, across a catalogue of billions of user-generated listings.

You'll oversee the systems behind search, ranking, recommendations and content management - from artist onboarding and moderation to search infrastructure. You'll engage with stakeholders across the business including Marketing and SEO, Finance, Legal and Support.

While our office is based in Melbourne, we are open to remote working arrangements for the right candidate.

Key Accountabilities

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a cross-functional team with impact across three core areas: Delivery, People, and Technology.

Delivery

• Drive delivery of product and technical outcomes - leading planning, work breakdown, agile rituals, and dependency management while removing blockers.
• Partner with the Product Manager to review team objectives, ensuring strong alignment with business priorities and company OKRs.
• Evolve team processes and reporting using modern Agile practices to support predictable, scalable software delivery.
• Collaborate with other teams to align roadmaps and enable smooth, coordinated cross-team execution.
• Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement by setting clear expectations, tracking progress and helping the team improve delivery outcomes.

People

• Coach and lead engineers in technical development, good engineering practices and behaviours
• Provide regular, actionable feedback aligned to OKRs and individual growth goals
• Measure and take steps to adjust team dynamic to optimise performance within the team and engagement externally
• Facilitate the professional development of each employee within your team

Technology:

• Continuously assess and evolve the team’s technology, architecture and skills to ensure sustainable success and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure solutions are well-architected, aligned with business needs, and follow engineering principles, architecture standards and tech radar.
• Guide your team in taking responsible care of the systems in their custodianship, including ensuring that system support is appropriately designed for the demands of the given system

What You'll Bring

• Deep understanding of search fundamentals and prior hands-on experience with internal search infrastructure / tooling (eg. OpenSearch, Elastic Search, AI Search).
• Demonstrated capability to lead high-performing teams.
• Proven track record in mentoring, feedback, goal setting and supporting capability development.
• Strong ability to understand the technical issues and complexities faced in engineering and work with teams to find resolutions.
• Sound judgment in balancing health of your team's systems and timely delivery.
• Highly collaborative and inclusive working style, with the ability to influence outcomes and navigate ambiguity across diverse stakeholder groups.

What We Offer:

• A high trust culture based on mutual respect
• Exposure to independent artists
• Flexible working arrangements
• Personalised career planning
• Opportunity to work in a global organisation
• Equity in your package
• Monthly Wellness allowance
• Vouchers and discounts from our marketplace websites

We’re creatively inspired commerce. And that inspiration starts with you. With your drive for progress over perfection and your courage to come together in celebration of creativity over convention. You’re inspired by art and those who make it, and we’re inspired by you.