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About the Role
A career in Software Engineering within the ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure) team at Machines4U, part of carsales, will see you working on high availability products for Dealership customers. This role is vital in allowing them to maximize their online customer interaction and sale funnels, transforming how people buy and sell across the world.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering execution for Machines4U, from product development and platform reliability to engineering practices and delivery cadence.
- Translate business priorities set by senior leadership into a clear, sequenced engineering roadmap and deliver against it.
- Lead a high-performing, distributed engineering team, and hold the behavioural and technical bar.
- Partner closely with product and carsales engineering counterparts to shape the Machines4U technology landscape and ensure engineering decisions serve commercial outcomes.
- Lead the progressive modernisation of Machines4U’s technology stack, balancing legacy platform stability with migration to scalable, secure and group-aligned modern systems.
- Oversee key platform integrations and third-party technical dependencies, ensuring reliable interfaces across marketplace, CRM, payments, marketing, reporting and group systems.
- Own engineering input into security, reliability and compliance practices, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and remediated pragmatically.
- Actively contribute to engineering practices, tooling, and culture across the carsales Engineering community.
- Provide clear, credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership, including assessments of risk, trade-offs, and capacity.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led, commercially-driven environment, ideally in a marketplace or B2B SaaS context.
- Strong technical depth across modern web stacks (backend and frontend), cloud infrastructure, and API design.
- Track record delivering practical engineering roadmaps that move the needle on business outcomes.
- Experience operating in a mixed legacy and modern technology environment, with a pragmatic approach to modernisation and risk reduction.
- Natural relationship builder who can work effectively across functions, holding your own with stakeholders while staying accountable to a broader group.
- Credible operating range: from coding standards and incident response to roadmap trade-offs and senior leadership updates.
- Hands-on enough to review architecture, unblock engineers, and spot quality problems early.
- Pragmatic experience balancing delivery pace and meeting standards for security, reliability, and scalability.
- Successful candidates must have full-time Australian working rights.
- Successful candidates will need to complete a National Police Record check.
Skills
- Modern web stacks (backend and frontend)
- Cloud infrastructure
- API design
Location
- Gold Coast
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Full Time
- Part-time options
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Lead engineering teams
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available
- Recognition as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®
- Family Friendly Workplace
- WORK180 endorsed employer
- 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- Four weeks paid parental leave for secondary caregivers
- Six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave
- Regular hackathons
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health
- Flexible working arrangements
About the Company
- Machines4U machinery part of carsales is focused on making buying and selling a great experience and evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.
- The company strives to feel small, small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically.
- With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, they are transforming how people buy and sell across the world.
- They discover new ideas and bring them to life, continuing to grow and evolve without fear of taking bold steps.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, Machines4U and carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences.
- We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
- If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
- We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.