Senior Product Engineer (US Platforms)

Opteon; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Autonomy

Coaching culture

Product operating model

Job summary

Opteon’s ANZ Engineering team seeks a senior, autonomous Product Engineer to lead and deliver complex software initiatives. You will work with US colleagues, shaping roadmaps and mentoring peers in product operating model practices, AI adoption, and robust release processes.

You will design across legacy and modern platforms, implement with CI/CD, and ensure testing and monitoring are in place. A strong focus on communication and scalable architecture is required.

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.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, IAM, S3, ECS, Beanstalks, etc.).
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes end to end for complex product problems.
• Build robust solutions across legacy and modern platforms.
• Drive discovery with user research, prototypes and spikes.
• Embed product thinking with hypothesis-driven delivery and metrics.
• Coach Product Engineers and peers on discovery and technical craft.
• Challenge the feature factory with outcome-based alternatives.
• Lead with AI and set standards for safe, effective AI-assisted development.

Skills

Software engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Agentic AI tools

Relational databases

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Infra as Code

Product operating model

Team leadership

Communication

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Laravel

.NET Core / .NET 8+

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

REST

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Engineering (AU/NZ) | Geelong or Melbourne (hybrid) | Full-time, permanent

About Opteon

Opteon is building toward 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.)
• 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.

Our story began in 2005 in Australia. Opteon saw an opportunity to revolutionise the valuation industry by investing in innovative technology and uniting a national network of industry experts under the same vision. Our investment in technology and people helped to shape the industry.

Today, we continue to expand and excel at what we do; expanding to new countries, developing new technologies, and pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve in every market, every day. In 2019, we entered the US market while continuing to broaden our presence across Australia and New Zealand. We have a vision for the future and will continue to shape the industry across the globe.

Our story began in 2005 in Australia. Opteon saw an opportunity to revolutionise the valuation industry by investing in innovative technology and uniting a national network of industry experts under the same vision. Our investment in technology and people helped to shape the industry.

Today, we continue to expand and excel at what we do; expanding to new countries, developing new technologies, and pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve in every market, every day. In 2019, we entered the US market while continuing to broaden our presence across Australia and New Zealand. We have a vision for the future and will continue to shape the industry across the globe.