Engineering Manager

The Role

Enterprise healthcare is where clinical AI has to prove it can be trusted at scale. Hospitals and large health networks are now choosing Lyrebird, and that brings harder demands around reliability, security, integrations and delivery commitments. You’ll lead our Enterprise Engineering team in Melbourne, define what great looks like for enterprise delivery, and own what ships and the quality bar it’s built to. Your job is to shape an enterprise product on strong engineering foundations so that it wins by default.

This role suits a strong IC who has grown into a proven leader and still enjoys being close to the code. You’ll spend around 20% of your time on the tools in code review, architecture and unblocking. The rest goes on deciding which problems are worth solving, setting the direction, and making sure your team knows the goal, why it matters and what can wait.

There will always be 20 things on fire. You see around corners, pick the one that matters, and tell your team plainly: that fire will keep burning, but right now we’re focusing on this. You manage up with confidence, challenge assumptions when priorities shift for no good reason, and filter the noise so your team doesn’t carry it.

About Us

Every day in Australia, 10 people die from preventable medical errors. They don’t die from incurable diseases. They die from misdiagnosis, missed information, and clinicians making decisions under impossible pressure. At the centre of that failure is a doctor spending 40% of their day on paperwork instead of patients. Lyrebird is fixing that.

We turn real clinical conversations into accurate notes, automatically. From there, Lyrebird takes on the admin that follows: letters and documents, workflow automation, patient data pulled together from disconnected systems, and communication with patients and other clinicians.

Thousands of clinicians across multiple disciplines use Lyrebird every day in environments where accuracy, safety and time matter deeply. We’re growing fast across Melbourne, the UK and Asia, and there’s a short window right now to set the standard for clinical AI in Australia before anyone else does.

What you’ll do

Define the enterprise engineering roadmap with Product and the Head of Engineering, and own delivery against it so milestones land on the dates we commit to customers

Shape the foundations enterprise customers need, including reliability, security, scalability and integrations, and make the case to the business for what gets built first

Turn shifting executive strategy into one clear, prioritised plan, including what we’re deliberately not doing yet, and hold the line on it

Challenge ideas with technical depth, your team’s, Product’s and leadership’s, and course correct early instead of after the fact

Build a team that carries the delivery load, through clear expectations, strong delegation and ownership that sits with the people closest to the work

Act as the bridge between exec and engineering, setting trade-offs with Product, Customer Success and Sales and pushing back where it counts

Shape how enterprise work strengthens the wider platform, working with senior technical leaders, the UK engineering team and other product squads

What you’ll bring

A background as a strong hands-on engineer, with enough technical depth to lead architecture and code review conversations, not just follow them

A track record of leading an engineering team that shipped meaningful product under pressure and through constantly shifting priorities (experience in high-growth start ups will hold you in good stead)

Proven ability to drive measurable results through engineering output that directly impact the customer and ultimately, ARR

Experience building or scaling a product for enterprise customers, where reliability, security and delivery commitments carry real weight

Proven ability to set direction across competing stakeholders, turning conflicting demands into an agreed plan that the business backs

A product mindset: you question why something is being built and what the customer outcome is, not just how to ship the ticket