Australia Product Engineering Lead - Heartbeat AI

1Komma5 GmbH; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

1KOMMA5° is seeking an experienced Product Engineering Lead for Australia to shape the technical foundation of Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You will work with Germany-based teams, translating local needs into scalable solutions and guiding the engineering team from day one.

You will lead on the ground in Australia, ensuring reliability, shaping team growth, and driving energy-market aligned development with a strong focus on AI-assisted workflows.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering in a fast-paced, scalable environment.
• Experience leading engineers or technical teams; formal line management is a plus.
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud, and experience designing APIs and integrations.
• Experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems.
• Strong communication skills in English, written and spoken, including explaining technical choices in business terms.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted workflows in engineering.
• Willingness to overlap with German working hours.
• Based in Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia in close alignment with the Heartbeat AI engineering teams and ensure quality and delivery.
• Set the technical bar for the team and tackle hard problems personally.
• 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 and engineering teams in Germany and partners, communicating decisions clearly.
• Shape how the team evolves: processes, hiring, and growth of engineers.
• Participate in hiring and mentor engineers joining the team.
• Build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, advancing agentic engineering.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Distributed systems

APIs & integrations

IoT & energy systems

English communication

AI-assisted workflows

Sydney-based

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

Cloud Run

Terraform

TypeScript

NestJS

Next.js

Flutter

Eclipse Hono

MQTT

Mender

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

SQLMesh

Looker

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Cursor

GitHub Actions

Linear

Notion

Job description

1KOMMA5° is seeking an experienced Product Engineering Lead for Australia to shape the technical foundation of Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You will work with Germany-based teams, translating local needs into scalable solutions and guiding the engineering team from day one.

You will lead on the ground in Australia, ensuring reliability, shaping team growth, and driving energy-market aligned development with a strong focus on AI-assisted workflows.