Engineering Manager

Melbourne or Sydney | 4 days/week in office

Package | Up to $230k base + super + 10% bonus The Opportunity:

One of Australia's leading digital marketplace businesses is transforming its flagship data intelligence SaaS tool.

The platform had a deep customer base prior to being acquired by the group but was never fully integrated into the wider group's technology ecosystem. Now that's changing.

A modernisation programme is underway: legacy Java and Tapestry giving way to React, TypeScript and Node, with the product increasingly plugging into shared services elsewhere in the business instead of duplicating them.

What You'd Own:

- Two squads split across Sydney and Melbourne: one holding down the existing platform and pushing the migration forward, the other building the future product
- The technical judgement calls behind the modernisation: what moves, what's rebuilt, what's retired
- Enough hands-on involvement to actually get underneath the legacy Java codebase, not just read the architecture diagrams
- Influence over the React/TypeScript/Node future state, including where AI-enabled workflows fit down the line
- Working relationships across other engineering teams, since the future platform leans on services built outside your own squads

Experience that this role calls for:





- Java or JVM background, even if it's not what you're writing today, followed by a move into React, TypeScript and Node
- Personally led a legacy-to-up-to-date platform transformation, not just observed one from the delivery side
- You're a hands-on player-coach type EM who is still close enough to the code and architecture to challenge a design decision, review a pull request, or debug something gnarly, without needing to be the team's top committer
- Strong .NET backgrounds also welcome, provided you can read your way into an unfamiliar Java platform while credibly leading the team toward the future state
- Comfortable running two squads and managing the handoffs between a maintenance-and-migration team and a build-the-future team
- A real point of view on what should be migrated versus rebuilt versus retired, and the ability to defend it
- Modernised a product that was acquired or historically under-invested in
- Shared API/platform integration work across multiple engineering teams
- Strangler-pattern or incremental migration experience specifically

Apply now or reach out for more information.

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?: George Bates | LinkedIn

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