Head of Engineering, AI-Driven EdTech Platform

Think Grow; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Think Grow is partnering with a leading Australian EdTech business delivering live online tutoring across Australia and New Zealand. We are seeking a Working Head of Engineering to lead a team of 11 across Sydney and the Philippines, spending about 80–85% on delivery and 15–20% on technical strategy, security and governance.

The role reports to the CEO, with a clear path to Head of Technology or CTO within three to four years.

Qualifications

• Experience leading 10+ engineers across multiple stacks and vendors.
• Hands-on AWS full stack and React experience.
• Practical AI experience and ability to bring along a sceptical team.
• Product prioritisation and ability to explain trade-offs to a CEO.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap and quarterly delivery plan, ~10 initiatives per quarter, lead sprints, backlog, requirements and releases hands-on.
• Coordinate front end, back end, Salesforce, QA and data to avoid cross-stack delays.
• Move engineers to owner-ship of end-to-end initiatives and run stakeholder playbacks.
• Lead the shift to AI in coding, testing and deployment using existing tools.
• Guide the six- to twelve-month plan toward a unified full-stack, cloud-native team.
• Own architecture and make buy/build/retire decisions, reducing MuleSoft usage over 12–24 months.
• Merge existing codebases into a single platform and deliver frontend and AI pipeline work.
• Maintain platform stability with increasing release volume and uptime management.
• Manage vendors, forecast and control AWS and SaaS spend.
• Be the CEO's technical partner and face of technology to the business.

Skills

AWS

React

AI experience

Leadership

Product prioritization

Stakeholder communication

Security & governance

Cloud native architecture

Tools

Salesforce

MuleSoft

Snowflake

Job description

Think Grow is partnering with a leading Australian EdTech business delivering live online tutoring across Australia and New Zealand. We are seeking a Working Head of Engineering to lead a team of 11 across Sydney and the Philippines, spending about 80–85% on delivery and 15–20% on technical strategy, security and governance.

The role reports to the CEO, with a clear path to Head of Technology or CTO within three to four years.