EverCommerce is hiring a Development Manager to lead our EverWell product line. In this role, you will create the environment where high-performing teams thrive, coaching engineers at all career stages while enabling product teams to deliver practical, high-value solutions. The position blends people leadership with technical credibility and is based remotely in New Zealand.
What You'll Do
- Lead and coach remote-first engineering teams, fostering strong culture, performance, and continuous growth.
- Support delivery of value-driven work by partnering with Product to refine backlogs and enable iterative delivery.
- Ensure team alignment to agreed OKRs, KPIs, security, and engineering standards.
- Create clear communication around goals, progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Improve team ceremonies, processes, and ways of working to drive effective delivery.
- Support technical direction alongside senior engineers and help shape work entering the backlog.
- Collaborate with Technology leaders to align team growth with wider business objectives.
- Enable cross-team coordination and coach engineers to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and ongoing capability development.
- Champion a culture of transparency, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and team management.
- Solid software engineering background with the ability to engage in technical and architectural discussions.
- Experience improving software delivery practices, such as code quality, testing, CI/CD and observability.
- Strong empathy for both engineering and business challenges.
- Growth mindset and thirst to improve yourself.
- Demonstrable strong collaboration skills across product and engineering.
- Demonstrable strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and an ability to both translate technical concepts to less technical audiences where required as well as manage expectations of different stakeholders.
Team & Environment
You will be leading 2–3 squads of engineers within a remote-first structure.
Benefits & Compensation
- Additional annual leave to switch off and relax.
- Flexibility to work from home or the office.
- High-spec home office set up provided.
- Professional development budget to fuel growth.
- Annual wellness allowance to support wellbeing.
Work Mode
This is a remote position based in New Zealand.
EverCommerce is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
