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About the Role
A career in Software Engineering within our ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure) team will see you working on products used daily by millions of customers. This team focuses on a high-availability product for Dealership customers to buy and sell inventory, playing a vital role in maximizing their online customer interaction and sales funnels.
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 behavioral 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 modernization 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, prioritized 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 modernization 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
- Remote work
- Full-time
- Part-time options available
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Lead engineering teams
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available
- 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- Four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave
- Paid family & fertility planning leave
- 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.
- We aim to offer meaningful career opportunities that empower employees to make a lasting impact.
- We strive to feel small to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically.
- Our vision is to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, transforming how people buy and sell across the world.
- We discover new ideas and bring them to life, continuing to grow and evolve without fear of taking bold steps.
- We embrace hybrid working, combining flexibility with in-person collaboration.
- We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support wellbeing.
- We are proud to be recognised as one Gf Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace and a WORK180 endorsed employer for women.
- We are a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, committing to responding to every applicant.
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.