Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara. We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure. By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future. Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe. We're looking for an experienced Tech Lead Manager to lead Neara's Experience Platform, taking technical ownership for our platform’s usability, performance and visual appeal across desktop and mobile devices. In our Experience platform teams, we are looking for leaders with the technical depth to build robust features and capabilities that serve both internal & external customers. You have experience in creating user experiences and components that enable complex workflows that are visually appealing and work at scale. This is a people-first leadership position with strong technical depth in software engineering. You'll split your time leading the team and driving delivery,



whilst remaining hands-on to guide system design and tackle complex technical challenges. At the core of all of our teams is a customer centricity where we are fanatical about delivering tangible customer value rapidly and safely. Through excellent user experiences, you will unlock the ability for our customers to gain critical insights and make decisions for their networks.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

TEAM LEADERSHIP & DELIVERY

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, supporting both technical development and career progression. Own delivery for your team's domain: Setting clear goals, defining milestones, and ensuring projects ship reliably and sustainably. Own workflows and development practices that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability. Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams break down complex technical challenges into achievable plans. Foster strong collaboration with Product, Design, Customer Success and Sales teams to ensure alignment and effective execution. Partner closely with other Tech Lead Managers to raise the bar across engineering: influence best practices, tooling, and long-term platform direction, and help scale Neara's engineering culture as we grow. TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP (HANDS ON)

Stay hands-on where you multiply the team: contribute to system design and architectural decisions, and write and review production-quality code across performance-critical, data-intensive components. This isn't a hands-off role:



you'll lead best by understanding the substance. Shape the client and product UX and product UX end to end: the UI and design system, rendering and interaction performance, and the 3D visualisation of very large networks. Build the capabilities other engineering teams build on top of — APIs, extension points and shared components — as well as the features our end users touch directly. SKILLS WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN THIS ROLE:

Care factor for end user app experience — UI, design systems, performance and 3D rendering. You notice the details that make an application feel considered, and you hold your team to that bar. You possess the taste for interaction design where the goal is a fluent workflow rather than just simple interfaces, and the judgement to respect expert users who live in the product all day. Scaling a user experience to millions of objects — aggregation, loading and unloading concerns, and the visualisation techniques that keep an interface responsive at that volume. Enabling other engineering teams as well as the end user — an ability to get to know your customer, internal or external, and elicit good requirements that solve their problem as well as improve the platform. Harmonising user experiences across many use cases — bringing coherence to a product used by many different roles for many different jobs, rather than letting each use case grow its own dialect. Product engineering for expert tooling —
- You have a strong track record building or leading on dense, stateful, expert-user tools (e.g., CAD, design tools like Figma, GIS, IDEs, or serious data viz) rather than standard SaaS dashboards. WHO YOU ARE

A technical people-leader who's owned delivery end to end: co

📌 Tech Lead Manager (Sydney)
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