Engineering Technical Lead

Whatll youll be doing

Were 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 youll contribute to planning building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale automating where possible.  

Qualifications :

What we are looking for

We build distributed systems using a wide range of tools and technologies. As a Tech Lead youll bring deep technical expertise and lead by example. You wont need to know every tool we use but strong experience in the following areas is essential:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and initiatives.
• Expertise 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.

Additional Information :

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 youre a candidate with a disability or youll 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. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time