Engineering Manager, Machines4U

What we're looking for

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led, commercially-driven environment, ideally in a marketplace or B2B SaaS context.
• Strong technical depth across modern web stacks (backend and frontend), cloud infrastructure, and API design.
• Track record delivering practical engineering roadmaps that move the needle on business outcomes.
• Experience operating in a mixed legacy and modern technology environment, with a pragmatic approach to modernisation and risk reduction.
• Natural relationship builder who can work effectively across functions, holding your own with stakeholders while staying accountable to a broader group.
• Credible operating range: from coding standards and incident response to roadmap trade-offs and senior leadership updates.
• Hands-on enough to review architecture, unblock engineers, and spot quality problems early.
• Pragmatic experience balancing delivery pace and meeting standards for security, reliability, and scalability.

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

• As an equal opportunity employer, Machines4U and carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the Machines4U and carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

About Machines4U

Responsibilities

• Own engineering execution for Machines4U, from product development and platform reliability to engineering practices and delivery cadence
• Translate business priorities set by senior leadership into a clear, sequenced engineering roadmap and deliver against it
• Lead a high-performing, distributed engineering team, and hold the behavioural and technical bar
• Partner closely with product and carsales engineering counterparts to shape the Machines4U technology landscape and ensure engineering decisions serve commercial outcomes
• Lead the progressive modernisation of Machines4U’s technology stack, balancing legacy platform stability with migration to scalable, secure and group-aligned modern systems
• Oversee key platform integrations and third-party technical dependencies, ensuring reliable interfaces across marketplace, CRM, payments, marketing, reporting and group systems
• Own engineering input into security, reliability and compliance practices, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and remediated pragmatically
• Actively contribute to engineering practices, tooling, and culture across the carsales Engineering community
• Provide clear, credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership, including assessments of risk, trade-offs, and capacity