Senior Product Engineer - ANZ Platforms | AI-Driven & Flexible

Opteon; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Opteon is seeking a senior software engineer to lead Australia/NZ platform initiatives from Geelong or Melbourne with flexible arrangements. You will own outcomes end to end, shape roadmaps through evidence and discovery, and mentor peers in product operating model practices.

You will build robust, scalable solutions across legacy and modern platforms, release safely via CI/CD, and drive AI-enabled development while collaborating across teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years delivering software at scale in fast-paced environments.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Australian citizenship and NV1 security clearance eligibility.
• Strong C# skills across .NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 8+ with ASP.NET.
• Hands-on with agentic AI coding assistants and AI concepts.
• Experience with AWS (RDS, IAM, S3, ECS, Beanstalks).
• Experience with MSSQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience in a product operating model organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes end to end for complex product problems with measurable business results.
• Build robust solutions across legacy and modern platforms with CI/CD and testing.
• Drive discovery using user research, prototypes, and technical spikes.
• Embed product thinking with hypothesis-driven delivery and outcome metrics.
• Coach Product Engineers and share reusable patterns across teams.
• Challenge the feature factory and propose outcome-based alternatives.
• Lead with AI by using agentic coding tools and setting safe standards.

Skills

C# & .NET

AI coding assistants

AWS

Relational DBs

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

IaC

Product operating model

Education

Bachelor/Master in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Elastic Beanstalk

Job description

Opteon is seeking a senior software engineer to lead Australia/NZ platform initiatives from Geelong or Melbourne with flexible arrangements. You will own outcomes end to end, shape roadmaps through evidence and discovery, and mentor peers in product operating model practices.

You will build robust, scalable solutions across legacy and modern platforms, release safely via CI/CD, and drive AI-enabled development while collaborating across teams and stakeholders.