Senior Product Engineer (US Platforms)

Opteon AUS & NZ; Geelong; Hybrid; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Autonomy over projects

Coaching and knowledge sharing

Job summary

Opteon AUS & NZ is seeking a senior Product Engineer to own end-to-end outcomes for complex initiatives, collaborating with US-based colleagues. You will design robust solutions across legacy and modern platforms, and release safely through CI/CD with testing and monitoring.

You’ll drive discovery via user research and prototypes, embed product thinking, and coach peers in discovery and technical craft while advancing AI-assisted development with safe standards.

Qualifications

• 6+ years delivering software professionally at scale.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Willingness to work reasonable flexible cross-over hours with a US-based team to facilitate strong communication and collaboration.
• Full Australian working rights.
• Strong PHP and C# skills across Laravel and .NET Core / .NET 8+.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI coding assistants and AI concepts.
• Experience with AWS (RDS, IAM, S3, ECS, Beanstalks).
• Experience with modern reactive front-end frameworks (Vue3) and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience designing and querying relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience in a product operating model organisation or similar.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

6+ years exp

PHP & C#

AWS

Vue3 / JavaScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

Terraform

Australian work rights

US time overlap

Education

Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Laravel

.NET Core / .NET 8+

Job description

About Opteon

Opteon is building towards being the leading independent global property solutions provider, powered by innovation, data intelligence and technology. We provide value for our customers through trusted advice, insights and solutions, enabled by global thinking and local expertise.

About Opteon

Opteon is building towards being the leading independent global property solutions provider, powered by innovation, data intelligence and technology. We provide value for our customers through trusted advice, insights and solutions, enabled by global thinking and local expertise.

Our ANZ Engineering team builds and evolves the global platforms that underpin that work. We operate under a product operating model: small teams that own outcomes, learn fast from evidence, and use AI systematically to go further.

The role

This is a senior individual contributor role within the ANZ Engineering team, contributing to our US platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to work with US-based colleagues to lead complex initiatives with real autonomy, champion rapid, evidence-based learning, and coach other Product Engineers to work the same way. You won’t just consume a prioritised backlog — what you learn will shape the roadmap.

What You’ll Do

• Own outcomes end to end. Lead delivery on complex product problems with clear accountability for measurable business results.
• Build robust solutions. Design and implement across our legacy and modern platforms, and release safely through CI/CD with the right testing, monitoring and operational follow-through.
• Drive discovery. Use user and problem research, prototypes and technical spikes to make clear go/no-go calls before scaling up.
• Embed product thinking. Bring hypothesis-driven delivery and outcome metrics into team rituals and stakeholder conversations.
• Coach and share. Mentor Product Engineers and peers on discovery, product operating model behaviours and technical craft; share reusable assets and patterns across teams.
• Challenge the feature factory. Call it out constructively and propose outcome-based alternatives.
• Lead with AI. Model productive use of agentic coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code), experiment with new technologies and agentic approaches, and help set standards for safe, effective AI-assisted development.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years delivering software professionally at scale, ideally in a fast-paced or evolving environment
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Willingness to work reasonable flexible cross-over hours with a US-based team to facilitate strong communication and collaboration
• Full Australian working rights
• Strong PHP and C# skills across Laravel and .NET Core / .NET 8+
• Hands-on, everyday proficiency with agentic AI coding assistants, and a solid grasp of agentic AI concepts and systematic solutions
• Hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, IAM, S3, ECS, Beanstalks, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with modern reactive front-end frameworks (especially Vue3) and JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience designing and querying relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience in a product operating model organisation, or similar
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Why Opteon

• Real ownership and autonomy over meaningful, complex problems
• A team that works under a product operating model and uses agentic AI every day, with room for you to push both further
• Influence beyond your own team through coaching and shared technical patterns
• Flexible working, work from the office, home or both

Our values:

Make it Safe | Have Courage | Strive for Excellence | Act with Integrity | Be Connected

Opteon is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness, where employees are embraced for their unique qualities and valued for their contributions. We encourage applications from everyone, including people living with disability, job seekers of all ages, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds, including First Nations People.