Job Description
Engineering Manager
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Sydney or Melbourne CBD |
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4 days/week in office
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Package
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Up to $230k base + super + 10% bonus
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The Opportunity
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One of Australia's leading digital marketplace businesses is transforming its data intelligence SaaS tool.
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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.
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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.
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What You'd Own
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Two squads split across Sydney and Melbourne: one holding down the existing platform and pushing the migration forward, the other building the future product
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The technical judgement calls behind the modernisation: what moves, what's rebuilt, what's retired
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Enough hands‐on involvement to actually get underneath the legacy Java codebase, not just read the architecture diagrams
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Influence over the
React/TypeScript/Node
future state, including where AI‐enabled workflows fit down the line
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Working relationships across other engineering teams,



since the future platform leans on services built outside your own squads
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Experience that this role calls for
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Java or JVM background, even if it's not what you're writing today, followed by a move into React, TypeScript and Node
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Personally led a legacy‐to‐modern platform transformation, not just observed one from the delivery side
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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
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Robust .NET backgrounds also welcome, provided you can read your way into an unfamiliar Java platform while credibly leading the team toward the future state
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Comfortable running two squads and managing the handoffs between a maintenance‐and‐migration team and a build‐the‐future team
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A real point of view on what should be migrated versus rebuilt versus retired, and the ability to defend it
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Modernised a product that was acquired or historically under‐invested in
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Shared API/platform integration work across multiple engineering teams
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Strangler‐pattern or incremental migration experience specifically
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📌 Engineering Manager (New South Wales)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 New South Wales