Hands-On Software Development Manager for AI Infra Platform

Capital Executive Search; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Executive Search partners with a rapidly scaling AI Cloud business building a data centre and GPU infrastructure platform. This hands-on Software Development Manager role lets you stay close to technology while shaping a high‑performing team and setting technical direction.

You will lead hiring, drive the full SDLC, establish best practices, and own the roadmap, balancing speed, quality and cost in a fast‑moving environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing software engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering background with depth to read code and challenge designs.
• Proven experience hiring, developing and retaining engineers.
• Excellent communication across engineering, product and leadership.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers.
• Set technical direction, prioritise work and own delivery.
• Remain hands-on with code and technical design.
• Establish engineering practices across planning, design, review, CI/CD and production operations.
• Coach engineers with a focus on progression and performance.
• Own hiring, interview processes and team growth.
• Build and execute the technical roadmap balancing speed, quality and cost.
• Own operational quality including on-call, incident response and post-incident improvement.
• Partner with Product, Site Operations and other teams to turn ambiguous requirements into scalable solutions.
• Anticipate internal customer needs and build platform capabilities before blockers.

Skills

Team management

Software engineering

Delivery ownership

SDLC

Distributed systems

Production operations

CI/CD

Hiring

Technical roadmap

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Capital Executive Search partners with a rapidly scaling AI Cloud business building a data centre and GPU infrastructure platform. This hands-on Software Development Manager role lets you stay close to technology while shaping a high‑performing team and setting technical direction.

You will lead hiring, drive the full SDLC, establish best practices, and own the roadmap, balancing speed, quality and cost in a fast‑moving environment.