Manager, Software Engineering

About Us At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster. We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment. We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.Role

The Manager, Software Engineering leads a team or multiple teams responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality software solutions in the domain of Geophysics. Translating strategic objectives into actionable plans, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals. This role requires a balance of technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration to drive innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

The Manager, Software Engineering is accountable for team performance and development, fostering a culture of ownership, agility, and engineering excellence. This role contributes to the evolution of technologies, platforms and practices, ensuring they meet the needs of customers and scale with the business.

Duties and responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Development

• Build and guide high-performing team(s) of experienced technical professionals, ranging from Associate to Principal and Leads, through hiring, mentoring, and development.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, reliability, and collaboration.
• Hold regular one-on-one meetings, conduct performance reviews, and support career development opportunities for direct reports.
• Responsible for the effective cascading and communication of objectives and key results that support business and department objectives.
• Conduct performance and talent evaluations for team members, as well as regular career development sessions.
• Monitor resourcing, capability, critical people dependencies/risks, and plan measures to mitigate future problems.
• Contribute to the successful utilisation of generative AI productivity tools across all technology functions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with architects, cloud infrastructure, SRE, security, and application teams to ensure alignment.
• Act as a trusted partner to internal stakeholders, empowering teams to leverage service capabilities effectively and drive organizational success.
• Facilitate the coordinated responses to escalated technical support issues from distributors and Technical Services teams.
• Collaborate closely with other Software Engineering leaders on projects across different development centres.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Product Designers or their leaders.
• May manage contracts, statements of work, milestones, and relationships with external third party software vendors and contractors.
• Define and measure success through internal adoption, performance metrics, and developer satisfaction.

Project Execution & Technical Delivery

• Translate strategic goals into actionable software development roadmaps.
• Balance the need for innovation, technical debt management, and business continuity.
• Maintain flexibility and adaptability during project execution, and review, approve and communicate policies as required.
• Ensure Seeqeunt’s software development processes are well understood and implemented by the team(s)

Security, Reliability & Compliance

• Embed security and compliance into design.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Drive SRE practices such as SLAs, SLOs, and incident response within teams responsible for services.

Strategic and Operational Contribution

• Contribute to broader engineering strategy, especially around best practices, and scalability.
• Help plan future capacity, investment, and long-term technical direction.
• Advocate for organizational initiatives, ensuring leadership buy-in and team clarity.
• Drive the adoption of SRE practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and incident response procedures.
• Ensure systems are resilient, observable, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance developer experience and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Tertiary level qualifications in Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years demonstrated software engineering experience with minimum of 3 years experience leading a team directly or indirectly.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

In addition, the role requires the following attributes:

• Ability to execute functional strategies into actionable plans and oversee the execution of initiatives that directly impact team and job area performance.
• Ability to apply logical analysis and prior experience to resolve moderately complex challenges, making system and process enhancements to improve effectiveness.
• Experience in establishing communication policies, practices, and performance expectations clearly across teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and collaboration.
• In-depth practical knowledge of organizational practices and policies, with experience in applying new skills and tools to support team and business goals.

Working conditions

Seequent is a global company, and flexibility in working hours may be required to accommodate work across different time zones.

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Our people – Working at Seequent means becoming part of a community of collaborative innovators with insatiable curiosity and a passion to make a difference. Seequenteers are experts at what they do, visionaries with bold ideas for the future, and driven by a desire to make meaningful change.

Our culture – At Seequent you’ll be encouraged to Find a Better Way, Think Customer, Collaborate Enthusiastically, Exceed Expectations and Take Ownership, no matter what role you’re in. Our values define a culture of open mindedness, connected teams despite geographical distance, transparent communication, and leadership at any level, where everyone is welcome as their authentic self.

Our offices – Seequent operates from offices all over the world; as part of the Bentley Systems family. Our office hubs are fueled by barista-crafted coffee, games, table tennis, Lego, online trivia battles, and regular office team events. We like to celebrate our wins with cake too, lots of cake.

Benefits – Competitive salary, flexible working, a paid day each year to volunteer, an employee share purchase plan in most locations, rewards & recognition program, continuous learning and career growth opportunities, internal engagement events, culture & wellbeing program, personal support resources. Additional benefits are unique to each location Seequent resides in.How to apply If this sounds like the role for you, apply today