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Engineering Technical Lead

Melbourne , Australia
full-time

AI overview

Lead multiple initiatives to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions, influence user engagement and business growth while championing best engineering practices.

What’ll you’ll be doing

We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our services. Your work here will directly influence user engagement and business growth.

  • Lead multiple initiatives to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.
  • Drive engineering maturity: champion best practices, automation, and continuous improvement across teams.
  • Mentor and coach engineers: foster growth, set standards, and build a culture of technical excellence.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to align technical direction with business goals.
  • Architect and implement solutions ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
  • Promote innovation: evaluate and introduce AI/ML capabilities where they add value.
  • Own technical delivery: oversee code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Champion distributed systems and event-driven architectures for scale and resilience.
  • Using your expertise in modern agile practices, you’ll contribute to planning, building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale, automating where possible.  

What we are looking for?

We build distributed systems using a wide range of tools and technologies. As a Tech Lead, you'll bring deep technical expertise and lead by example. You won’t need to know every tool we use, but strong experience in the following areas is essential:

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams and initiatives.
  • Expertise in .NET and front-end frameworks like Angular or ReactJS.
  • Demonstrated experience with data-intensive storage and processing frameworks (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Spark, EMR)
  • Proven track record building event-driven and distributed systems.
  • Experience with caching (e.g. Redis, in-memory) to support scale and speed.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS) and DevOps practices such as CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code.
  • Skilled at applying appropriate engineering methods (e.g. modularisations, abstractions) that make assets tractable
  • Passion for clean code, continuous improvement, and scalable design.

A few other things we want to let you know about...

  • carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
  • We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
  • We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
  • Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.  

carsales

“Are you ready to be a big part of something big?”Autonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. We bring the whole team together for planned collaboration, communication, and connection events 2-3 times per year.This is your opportunity to (Purpose and specific outcomes encouraged of this role). Utilise Gender Neutral words (Lead, Drive, Initiate, Produce, Direct, Build, Grow, Design, Implement, Plan, Deliver, Evolve, Define). A career in Technology, Product and Information will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our ACIL Tribe. The ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry and Leisure) Tribe, In a nut shell, focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to manage their inventory and prospects. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise their online customer interaction and sale funnels – See our AutoGate - Automotive retail software from Carsales.com Ltd. From integrations and billing to user management and authorizations, the tribe are responsible for a high availability, low latency platform built for client success.All of our teams use a variation of C#, .NET core, ASP.NET MVC, Microservices and AWS. And a variation of , JavaScript and angular/react – depending on the team.What’s on offerAutonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, an AFR BOSS Best Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.Support of a highly engaged, high-performing team. We have incredible talent in carsales that you will learn from.18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.Regular Hackathons, endless learning and development opportunities, and a range of activities that will help support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

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