Engineering Manager — Platform & Growth Leader

Carsales.com; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best Workplace Australia

Family friendly

Flexible working arrangements

Parental leave 24 weeks

Hackathons

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Machines4U, part of Carsales, seeks a senior Engineering leader to own execution from product development to platform reliability. You will translate priorities into a clear roadmap, lead a distributed team, and collaborate with product and Carsales engineering to shape the technology landscape.

Drive modernisation while preserving legacy stability. You’ll oversee integrations with CRM, payments, marketing, and reporting, ensuring secure, scalable systems and strong governance.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Leadership

Web stacks

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Security & reliability

Architecture review

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Machines4U, part of Carsales, seeks a senior Engineering leader to own execution from product development to platform reliability. You will translate priorities into a clear roadmap, lead a distributed team, and collaborate with product and Carsales engineering to shape the technology landscape.

Drive modernisation while preserving legacy stability. You’ll oversee integrations with CRM, payments, marketing, and reporting, ensuring secure, scalable systems and strong governance.