Head of Engineering

We are a collaborative, globally distributed team of over eighty team members spanning Australia, the US, New Zealand, and the Philippines. We are passionate about creating an awesome product and delivering best-in-class service. Our product provides an integrated platform that enables real estate professionals to systematically build and broadcast authentic local content across every channel. 

• Our Journey: Launched 2014 as RateMyAgent, a trusted review platform in Australia, NZ, and the US. Following the strategic acquisition of Curated Social in December 2024, we have now evolved into Renowned—the complete, professional-facing platform for Local Expert Marketing.
• The Ecosystem: RateMyAgent builds the reputation (the trusted consumer review brand). Renowned mobilises it - the automated system that turns reviews, listings, and data into powerful, always-on marketing content.

We enable agents and brokerages to stop chasing business and start attracting it, ensuring success follows trust, not endless prospecting.

About the Role

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer you will manage a team of 15 with 4 direct reports. As Head of Engineering you will lead our technical vision and execution and ensure our engineering & technology strategy remains aligned with our product roadmap and our business strategy. You will be responsible for the growth, performance, and well-being of our engineering team, fostering a high-performance culture characterised by speed, quality and continuous improvement. 

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Culture & Stakeholder engagement

• Define and drive engineering standards (code reviews, CI/CD) to ensure we ship high-quality code at pace
• Continue developing our engineering talent through our established competency matrix and career framework to drive professional growth and mastery; fostering a positive team culture focused on collaboration and accountability
• Collaborate effectively with all our customer and internal facing teams - Sales, Marketing, CX, Finance and P&C
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear business outcomes for the SLT and Extended Leadership Team (and beyond!) 

Technical Strategy & Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Own the technical architecture of the organisation and guide the team from a hands on and high-level perspective
• Lead a mature, pragmatic event-driven microservices architecture built on .NET 9 and AWS CDK. We rely on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts, Serverless workloads (Lambda, Fargate) where relevant, and asynchronous messaging (SNS/SQS, EventBridge)
• Partner with Product to manage the trade-offs between speed-to-market and technical debt - delivery excellence is what this is all about
• Lead the technical integration of emerging technologies, e.g. Agentic AI and LLMs (OpenAI), into our core SaaS platform to solve customer problems
• Maintain our track record of >99.99% uptime by championing SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Refine our Agile/Scrum methodologies and Shift Left culture to improve predictability and transparency
• Establish a regular release cadence that is clear and planned and in line with our business and product strategy

Required Experience:

• At least 10+ years of experience leading engineering teams in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
• Deep technical and architectural experience in the .NET ecosystem (C#, .NET Core) and Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• A strong network within the tech community and experience building hybrid teams offshore teams
• Experience managing significant Cloud budgets and optimising spend using AWS tools 
• You think like a product owner; you understand that technology exists to solve customer problems and drive revenue
• Hands on technical skills combined with strategic thinking 
• Detailed experience managing security / ISO27000 and related tools

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a company entering its next major phase of growth—a genuinely global expansion
• Competitive salary and benefits
• A culture defined by high performance, innovation and fun
• We are also a values-driven organisation: One Team One Dream: We put the greater good of the team and the business before ourselves, Dare to Care: We truly care about our product, our clients, and our impact, Think Deeply, Move Quickly: We think deeply to find the best solutions and execute efficiently, We Speak Up: We value honesty and give and receive feedback with respectful candour.

Benefits

• Flexible working: We offer flexible WFO arrangement (Cremorne office) 
• Wellness initiatives: on top of your usual leave entitlements, we offer 2 wellness days a year
• Hackathons: We are proud of our hackathon culture and host hackathons every year where the whole company gets involved!
• Birthday Leave: No one likes to work on their birthday, so take a day off that day!
• Paid Parental Leave: We want to support you as your family grows so we offer paid leave for special times as well as flexible working options.
• Learning and Development: Whether it's a short course, conference, or even a book that will help you with your learning and development, we have a healthy training budget in place for staff so you can continually learn and grow.