Hands-On Software Development Manager for AI Infra Platform

Capital Executive Search

Sydney

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

7 days ago
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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.

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