Product Engineering Lead – Australia (AI Energy Platform)

1Komma5°; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

1KOMMA5° is hiring an Engineering Lead to shape Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You will lead and mentor the Australian Product and Tech Team, ensuring reliability of Heartbeat AI’s energy management across solar, batteries, heat pumps, AC, and EV charging.

You’ll collaborate with Germany-based teams to align on architecture and strategy. You will drive technical leadership from day one, hire and grow engineers, and ensure the system performs reliably in Australian homes while

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering in a fast-paced, scalable environment.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or technical teams; formal line management is a plus.
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud; experience designing APIs and integrations.
• Experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems.
• Strong English communication, writing and speaking; able to explain technical choices in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia in close alignment with global engineering teams and ensure quality and delivery.
• Set the technical bar for the team and tackle the hardest problems hands-on.
• Make the energy management system work for Australian tariffs and market structures.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Communicate technical decisions and business impact clearly to stakeholders across teams.
• Shape team evolution, hiring, and growth; mentor engineers joining the team.
• Build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to advance agentic engineering.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

APIs design

Cloud engineering

English communication

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

Cloud Run

Terraform

NestJS

Next.js

Flutter

Eclipse Hono

MQTT

Mender

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

SQLMesh

Looker

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

Job description

1KOMMA5° is hiring an Engineering Lead to shape Heartbeat AI for Australian households. You will lead and mentor the Australian Product and Tech Team, ensuring reliability of Heartbeat AI’s energy management across solar, batteries, heat pumps, AC, and EV charging.

You’ll collaborate with Germany-based teams to align on architecture and strategy. You will drive technical leadership from day one, hire and grow engineers, and ensure the system performs reliably in Australian homes while