Senior Product Engineer - US Platforms, Flexible & AI-Driven

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

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.