Australia Product Engineering Lead: AI Energy Platform

1KOMMA5 group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

1KOMMA5° is seeking a Product Engineering Lead Australia in Sydney to own and localize Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You’ll guide technical strategy, lead hands-on development, and align with our Germany teams to maximize value from the energy platform.

You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability of the energy core across tariffs and market structures, while collaborating with local teams and global Product/Tech groups.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering at scale.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers; line management a plus.
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud; API design experience.
• Experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems.
• Strong English communication; explain tech in business terms.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted workflows in engineering.
• Based in Sydney with overlap with German hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia aligned with Germany teams.
• Set the technical bar for the team and tackle hard problems.
• Make the energy management system work for Australian tariffs and market structures.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Be the link between Australian teams, our engineering teams in Germany and partners.
• Shape how the team evolves: hiring and growth of engineers.
• Take part in hiring and mentor the engineers who join you.
• Build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows.

Skills

Tech leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

APIs & integrations

AI workflows

Mentoring engineers

English communication

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

Cloud Run

Terraform

Eclipse Hono

MQTT

Mender

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

SQLMesh

Looker

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Cursor

GitHub Actions

Job description

1KOMMA5° is seeking a Product Engineering Lead Australia in Sydney to own and localize Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You’ll guide technical strategy, lead hands-on development, and align with our Germany teams to maximize value from the energy platform.

You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability of the energy core across tariffs and market structures, while collaborating with local teams and global Product/Tech groups.