Engineering Manager, Machines4U

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

Are you ready to be a big part of something big?

At Machines4U machinerypart of carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. We've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want tooffer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small, small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other.

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we're transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve and we're not afraid to take bold steps to get there.

A career inSoftware Engineeringwill see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within ourACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure)team. The team focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to buy and sell their inventory. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise your online customer interaction and sale funnels.

We embrace hybrid working combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing.

What's on offer

A career-defining opportunity, with the Gold Coast lifestyle to match.

Join a high-performing product and technology environment where you'll have the opportunity to lead, influence and make a genuine impact - while building your life on the Gold Coast.

Think ambitious work and complex challenges, balanced with beaches before work, a growing tech community, great restaurants and weekends spent along the coast or in the hinterland.

For the right candidate, relocation assistance is available, so if you've been considering a move to the Gold Coast, this could be the opportunity to make it happen.

• Recognition as one of Australia's Best WorkplacesTM by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer.
• A highly engaged, collaborative team where you'll learn from exceptional talent.
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave.
• Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health.

Job Description

What you'll be doing

• Own engineering execution for Machines4U, from product development and platform reliability to engineering practices and delivery cadence
• Translate business priorities set by senior leadership into a clear, sequenced engineering roadmap and deliver against it
• Lead a high-performing, distributed engineering team, and hold the behavioural and technical bar
• Partner closely with product and carsales engineering counterparts to shape the Machines4U technology landscape and ensure engineering decisions serve commercial outcomes
• Lead the progressive modernisation of Machines4U's technology stack, balancing legacy platform stability with migration to scalable, secure and group-aligned modern systems.
• Oversee key platform integrations and third-party technical dependencies, ensuring reliable interfaces across marketplace, CRM, payments, marketing, reporting and group systems.
• Own engineering input into security, reliability and compliance practices, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and remediated pragmatically.
• Actively contribute to engineering practices, tooling and culture across the carsales Engineering community
• Provide clear, credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership, including assessments of risk, trade-offs, and capacity

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led, commercially-driven environment, ideally in a marketplace or B2B SaaS context
• Strong technical depth across modern web stacks (backend and frontend), cloud infrastructure, and API design
• Track record delivering practical engineering roadmaps that move the needle on business outcomes
• Experience operating in a mixed legacy and modern technology environment, with a pragmatic approach to modernisation and risk reduction.
• Natural relationship builder who can work effectively across functions, holding your own with stakeholders while staying accountable to a broader group
• Credible operating range: from coding standards and incident response to roadmap trade-offs and senior leadership updates
• Hands-on enough to review architecture, unblock engineers, and spot quality problems early
• Pragmatic experience balancing delivery pace and meeting standards for security, reliability, and scalability

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that's okay. If you're excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Additional Information

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, Machines4U and carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we're here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you'd like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We're also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the Machines4U and carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

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