Engineering Manager - Global Marketplace Tech Leader

Machines4U; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation assistance to Gold Coast

Best Workplace recognition & family‑or

WORK180 endorsed employer

Job summary

Machines4U, part of carsales, seeks an experienced engineering leader to drive delivery for the ACIL team in a hybrid setup. You will shape architecture, roadmaps and delivery cadence, aligning with senior leadership to maximise online marketplace impact.

You’ll mentor distributed engineers, balance legacy and modern systems, and influence cross-team decisions to improve reliability and scalability. Relocation to the Gold Coast is supported.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led, commercially-driven environment.
• Strong technical depth across modern web stacks (backend and frontend), cloud infrastructure, and API design.
• Track record delivering practical engineering roadmaps that move business outcomes.
• Experience balancing legacy and modern technology with pragmatic modernization and risk reduction.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for Machines4U, from product development to platform reliability.
• Translate senior leadership priorities into a clear engineering roadmap and deliver against it.
• Lead a distributed engineering team and uphold high behavioural and technical standards.
• Collaborate with product and Carsales teams to shape technology landscape and commercial outcomes.
• Modernise Machines4U's tech stack while balancing legacy stability with scalable systems.
• Oversee platform integrations and dependencies across marketplace, CRM, payments, marketing, and reporting.
• Embed security, reliability and compliance in engineering practices.
• Contribute to engineering culture and practices across Carsales community.
• Provide credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership on risk and capacity.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Web stack

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Stakeholder management

Job description

Machines4U, part of carsales, seeks an experienced engineering leader to drive delivery for the ACIL team in a hybrid setup. You will shape architecture, roadmaps and delivery cadence, aligning with senior leadership to maximise online marketplace impact.

You’ll mentor distributed engineers, balance legacy and modern systems, and influence cross-team decisions to improve reliability and scalability. Relocation to the Gold Coast is supported.