Engineering Manager - Machines4U

Machines4u.com.au; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recognised as Australia’s Best Workpl.

Engaged, collaborative team learning

24 weeks parental leave for primary

Hackathons and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Machines4U, part of carsales, is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to own engineering execution across product development, platform reliability, and delivery cadence.

You will translate business priorities into a clear engineering roadmap, lead a high‑performing distributed team, and collaborate with product and Carsales to shape the technology landscape for commercial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led environment.
• Strong technical depth across modern web stacks (backend/frontend) and cloud infra.
• Track record delivering practical engineering roadmaps with business impact.
• Experience bridging legacy and modern tech with risk-aware modernisation.
• Able to build relationships across functions and with senior leadership.
• Comfortable setting and reviewing architectural direction and standards.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for Machines4U across development, reliability, and delivery cadence.
• Translate business priorities into a clear engineering roadmap and deliver against it.
• Lead a distributed engineering team and maintain high behavioural and technical standards.
• Collaborate with product and carsales counterparts to align technology with commercial goals.
• Lead modernisation while balancing legacy stability and scalable systems.
• Oversee platform integrations and dependencies with interfaces to CRM, payments, marketing.
• Contribute to engineering practices, tooling, and culture across carsales community.
• Provide credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership on risk and trade-offs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Web stack depth

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Roadmap delivery

Legacy vs modernisation

Stakeholder management

Coding standards & incident response

Job description

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

At Machines4U machinery part 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 in Software Engineering will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our ACIL (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 their 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

• Recognition as one of Australia's Best Workplaces 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.

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

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.

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.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.