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Engineering manager — product teamSenior · People management and product delivery

Casey Taylor

Engineering Manager | People Development, Delivery & Reliability

Melbourne, VIC+61 491 572 549[email protected]

Summary

Engineering manager with eleven years in software delivery, including four years managing a product engineering team. Leads eight engineers through one-to-ones, growth plans, hiring and delivery reviews while partnering with product and design on scope and milestones. Brings an earlier background in backend development and technical leadership, using service health and delivery measures to guide practical improvements.

Skills

People leadership
Direct people management, One-to-ones, Growth plans, Hiring, Performance reviews, Onboarding
Delivery
Delivery planning, Work-in-progress limits, Risk reviews, Stakeholder communication, Service health reviews
Technical foundation
TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, API design, Incident response, Technical design reviews

Experience

Engineering ManagerAug 2022 – Present

Fictional business reporting platform · Melbourne, VIC

Product engineering team of eight engineers building reporting and integrations for finance and operations users.

  • Manage eight direct reports through weekly one-to-ones, written growth plans and mid-year performance reviews, with agreed development goals for each engineer.
  • Introduced work-in-progress limits and fortnightly delivery reviews; median work-item lead time fell from 15 days to 9 days over two quarters.
  • Agreed release-risk checks and rollback ownership with the team; the share of production deployments requiring rollback fell from 9% to 4% over two quarters.
  • Hired three engineers using structured interviews and a shared assessment rubric, then built onboarding plans with named technical buddies and first-release milestones.
  • Worked with product and design to split a reporting rewrite into three releases, recording dependencies, owners and customer-facing milestones before work began.
  • Established quarterly service health reviews and assigned owners to incident follow-ups; the team closed 18 of 24 agreed reliability actions over two quarters.
Technical Team LeadJul 2019 – Jul 2022

Fictional business reporting platform · Melbourne, VIC

Technical delivery lead for five engineers; formal line management remained with the engineering manager.

  • Led technical delivery for five engineers across the reporting API and integration workers, coordinating design reviews and weekly release readiness.
  • Designed a versioned reporting API and migration guide so existing customers could adopt the new endpoints in stages.
  • Reworked slow report queries and added query-plan checks; median report response time fell 31% across the tracked customer query set.
  • Coached two engineers through their first incident rotations, pairing on runbooks, investigation notes and post-incident follow-up.
  • Coordinated an integration migration for 12 customers with support and product, maintaining an owner and acceptance checklist for every account.

Tools: TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

Software EngineerJul 2015 – Jun 2019

Fictional inventory software provider · Melbourne, VIC

Backend team building stock reconciliation and supplier integrations for independent retailers.

  • Built supplier import workers that validated incoming stock files and produced row-level error reports for operations staff.
  • Added retry-safe processing to stock reconciliation jobs so repeated requests did not create duplicate adjustments.
  • Wrote integration tests for supplier file changes and shared representative fixtures with the customer support team.
  • Joined the backend on-call rotation and documented recovery steps for delayed imports and failed supplier synchronisations.

Tools: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Git, AWS

Education

Bachelor of Computer ScienceFeb 2011 – Nov 2014

RMIT University · Software engineering

Resume writing tips

How to write an engineering manager resume

Make people-management scope, team outcomes and technical judgement easy to inspect. The example distinguishes a formal manager role from earlier technical leadership.

State your actual management scope

Give the number of direct reports, team remit and management responsibilities. The example names eight reports, one-to-ones, growth plans and performance reviews. Coaching colleagues or coordinating a project is different evidence.

Connect a management practice to delivery

Explain the planning or review change and how delivery was measured. The example names work-in-progress limits, fortnightly reviews and lead time over two quarters. Avoid presenting a delivery metric without the definition or period.

Make hiring and development concrete

Describe the interviews, assessment, onboarding or growth work you owned. The example hires three engineers and uses technical buddies and first-release milestones. Keep headcount claims aligned with the source.

Show technical judgement at the right level

Use release-risk checks, service health reviews and earlier technical work to explain your engineering context. Describe the decisions you facilitated and the work the team delivered without claiming every implementation as your own.

Keep organisational and financial scope precise

Managing one product team does not establish department leadership or management of managers. Include budget authority, staffing plans or financial outcomes only when you can state what you owned and how it was measured.

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Map the role before rewriting the resume

Compare the job's requirements with your own experience. Keep partial matches qualified and leave out requirements you cannot support.

People management

Matched

Managed eight direct reports through one-to-ones, growth plans and mid-year performance reviews.

Delivery improvement

Matched

Introduced work-in-progress limits and delivery reviews; median work-item lead time fell from 15 days to 9 days over two quarters.

Hiring

Matched

Hired three engineers using structured interviews and a shared rubric, then created onboarding plans with technical buddies.

Multi-team leadership

Partial

Coordinated with product, design and support and previously led technical delivery, but formal management of multiple engineering teams is not shown.

Budget ownership

Gap

No departmental financial accountability is recorded. Team size, hiring and delivery responsibility do not establish budget ownership.

Before and after

Turn a generic bullet into role-relevant evidence

Original resume bullet

Led an engineering team and improved how projects were delivered.

Tailored from supported evidence

Managed eight engineers and introduced work-in-progress limits and fortnightly delivery reviews, reducing median work-item lead time from 15 days to 9 days over two quarters.

  • States the supported direct-report scope
  • Names the delivery practice and measurement
  • Leaves department-wide and financial accountability out
Supported skills

Keep the skills list connected to evidence

People managementHiringGrowth plansDelivery planningRisk reviewsTechnical leadership

These terms belong in the example because the evidence map supports them. A keyword from the job description is not enough on its own.

Role-specific review

Engineering Manager resume checklist

  • State direct-report and team scope
  • Separate technical leadership from line management
  • Name the management practice behind an outcome
  • Explain the measurement period
  • Claim financial responsibility only with evidence
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Common questions

Engineering Manager resume questions

What should an engineering manager resume show first?

Lead with the team you managed, the people responsibilities you held and the outcomes that matter to the target role. Use clear scope rather than a leadership adjective.

Is mentoring enough to claim people management?

No. Mentoring is useful technical leadership evidence. Direct reports, performance reviews, hiring decisions and development responsibilities establish formal management scope when those facts are true.

How should engineering managers quantify delivery improvements?

Name the measure, comparable work and period, such as median work-item lead time over two quarters. Explain the practice changed and credit team delivery accurately.

Should an engineering manager resume include technical skills?

Include the technical foundation relevant to your decisions and earlier work. Prioritise people, delivery and reliability evidence over an exhaustive tool list.

Does hiring a team establish budget ownership?

No. Hiring and financial accountability are different responsibilities. Include a budget only when you directly owned or approved it and can explain the scope.

Use your own career evidence

Tailor the facts, not the fiction

Compare a real job description with your own experience, keep unsupported gaps visible, and review every suggested claim before export.

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