Job Description

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- Permanent Role - Up to $250,000 + Super + Bonus
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- Sydney-based, hybrid working
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Intrinzic are proud to be partnering with a Sydney-headquartered global technology business whose product sits quietly behind some of the world's most recognisable consumer brands. You've almost certainly used it - most people have - you just didn't know who built it.

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Live across multiple international markets and about to be in several more, they're at the sharp end of a genuine scale-up curve, with major new enterprise logos signing and a product roadmap that's expanding well beyond its original category.

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The business is deliberately hiring fresh eyes, and the VP you'd report to genuinely wants someone who'll challenge how things are done - not nod along. You'll inherit a function at its scale-up peak, with a mandate to mature it, hire your own leadership layer, and own the engineering strategy for taking a proven platform into every international market with continuous releases. That's a rare problem to get your hands on in Sydney

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The role at a glance:

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- Senior Director, Engineering & Quality - leading a function of 50+ across Sydney and the US, with offshore squads across Asia and South America
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- Three Directors reporting to you across Engineering and QA - including vacancies you'll hire yourself
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- Full stack (Node.js) product engineering environment, plus data/analytics and DevOps in remit
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- Continuous product releases every few weeks into live client environments - this is genuine end-to-end product delivery, not internal IT
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- Own the quality strategy and platform stability: engineering-led test automation,



deployment automation, release discipline, production health
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What we need in the right person - and we'll be upfront here:

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- A hands-on developer by background who's grown into leading engineering functions - engineering is the main focus here, and any QA leadership exposure alongside it is a real advantage
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- To be transparent: this isn't a hands-on coding role
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- Current or recent Head of Engineering / Senior Director leading multiple squads in parallel, building custom client-facing software - ideally SaaS
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- Your customer has been external.
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- Breadth rather than a slice.
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- Capability built through senior leaders
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- Genuine end-to-end ownership: from client requirements through build, testing, deployment into client environments and production support. Owning one slice of one application won't get you there
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- Proven experience uplifting engineering maturity - not inheriting a machine that already ran well
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- Experience inheriting a function spanning a broad range of technologies and stacks, and bringing order to it
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- The presence to push back - on senior stakeholders, and on enterprise clients challenging your engineering practices
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If you've already carried this breadth - engineering, quality, architecture and production stability together, delivered through your own leadership layer, for a client who pays for it - and you want to do it somewhere with real autonomy and a platform millions of people touch every day, this is that seat.

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Please note: Candidates must be Australian permanent residents or citizens to apply for this opportunity.

📌 Senior Director of Software Engineering (New South Wales)
🏢 Intrinzic
📍 New South Wales