Collaborative, supportive, Values driven environment
Great coffee (and a variety of tea) and fresh fruit
Avoid the traffic: we are outside the CBD and close to public transport
Melbourne or Sydney | 4 days/week in office
Package | Up to $230k base + super + 10% bonus
Stack | Java/JVM background moving into React/TypeScript/Node
Engineering Manager
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.
That's now 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-contemporary 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
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📌 Engineering Manager (Victoria)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 Victoria