Senior Product Engineer (US Platforms)

Opteon AUS & NZ; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real ownership over complex problems

Autonomy and coaching opportunities

Product operating model environment

Flexible office/home mix

Job summary

Opteon AUS & NZ is seeking a senior product engineer in Melbourne to lead complex initiatives with autonomy, collaborating with US-based colleagues to shape roadmaps through evidence and rapid learning.

You’ll own outcomes, design robust solutions, and drive AI-powered delivery in a product operating model, mentoring peers and advancing reusable patterns across teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years delivering software professionally at scale.
• Willingness to work 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 with agentic AI coding assistants.
• AWS experience (RDS, IAM, S3, ECS, Beanstalks).
• Modern frontend frameworks (Vue3) and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
• RESTful APIs experience.
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience in a product operating model organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own outcomes end to end with measurable business results.
• Design and implement across legacy and modern platforms, release via CI/CD with testing and monitoring.
• Drive discovery with user research, prototypes and spikes for go/no-go decisions.
• Embed product thinking in rituals and stakeholder conversations.
• Coach Product Engineers and share reusable patterns across teams.
• Challenge the feature factory with outcome-based alternatives.
• Lead with AI and set standards for safe AI-assisted development.

Skills

PHP & C#

AWS

Vue3 / JS / TS

Postgres / MySQL

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Terraform / IaC

Agentic AI tooling

Communication skills

Education

Computer Science / Engineering degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

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.