💼 Full-Time Position

Head of Engineering

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White Bay
📍 Australia, New South Wales, Australia
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Location
Australia, Australia
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Posted
June 26, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Australian award-winning SaaS business, 15 years old and now 250 staff, operating in a complex and highly regulated domain, are looking for a Head of Engineering to build the engineering foundations and leadership structure needed to support their next phase of platform-led growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own how the platform is built, run and evolved, ensuring engineering operates as a reliable, secure and scalable system rather than a reactive delivery function
  • Define and embed consistent engineering standards, structure, governance and ways of working across multiple teams and disciplines
  • Set and maintain technical direction, ensuring priorities and trade-offs are applied consistently as business needs evolve
  • Stay close to architecture, platform strategy and technical direction, remaining technically credible enough to guide decisions and challenge assumptions without sitting in code day to day
  • Protect platform s...