Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne

Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for payment products and platform capabilities. Sets engineering strategy, architecture, roadmap, reliability, security, and operational excellence priorities while partnering with Product and Design. Develops engineering managers and technical leaders, drives predictable delivery, manages technical trade-offs, champions AI-enabled engineering practices, and builds an inclusive, high-trust culture for globally scaled payment systems.

Lead end-to-end engineering talent acquisition across APJ, translating business priorities into hiring strategies and personally delivering complex senior engineering searches. Build and manage an in-house recruiting team, oversee RPO and external partners, develop specialized technical talent pipelines, improve assessment and candidate experience, and use recruiting analytics to guide decisions. The role requires navigating confidential, security-sensitive hiring environments and partnering closely with engineering leaders across autonomy, robotics, simulation, machine learning, and infrastructure.

Build and improve developer-first platform tools, engineering workflows, delivery systems, and unified tooling for thousands of engineers. Solve complex cross-organizational technical challenges, scale AI-native development practices, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers through collaboration and technical leadership. The role is distributed across Australia and New Zealand with quarterly in-person sessions.

Lead the design and development of enterprise engineering platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD capabilities, automation, security tooling, testing, and artifact management. Provide technical direction, solve complex engineering problems, improve software delivery reliability and security, and mentor engineers across the organization. Build scalable capabilities integrated with cloud environments and support AI-powered, agentic engineering practices.

Lead the design and delivery of scalable risk data products, pipelines, transformation frameworks, and analytics engineering solutions. Establish data models, testing, monitoring, documentation, governance, CI/CD, orchestration, and cloud modernization practices. Partner with risk and business stakeholders to translate regulatory and portfolio requirements into reliable technical solutions. Provide hands-on technical leadership, coaching, and capability development while improving analytical productivity through automation and AI-assisted tools.

Provides senior technical leadership for Pepperstone’s client-facing platform while remaining hands-on. Defines multi-year architecture across AI, cloud, networking, identity, and data; solves complex distributed-systems and reliability challenges; builds AI-native capabilities and developer platforms; leads migrations; mentors senior engineers; and advises technology leadership on security, resilience, performance, cost, and regulatory considerations.

Provides senior technical leadership for Pepperstone’s client-facing trading products while remaining hands-on. Responsibilities include defining multi-year architecture, solving complex performance and reliability challenges, leading migrations, establishing engineering standards, applying AI-assisted development, shaping AI-powered features, and advising the CTO and technology leaders. The role spans web, mobile, APIs, distributed systems, data stores, real-time platforms, observability, and continuous delivery while mentoring senior engineers and influencing multiple teams.

Lead engineering for MYOB’s customer-facing agentic AI products from discovery through production. Set technical direction, architecture, evaluation standards, and responsible AI practices while balancing quality, latency, reliability, safety, and cost. Lead multidisciplinary teams across AI engineering, data science, and software engineering; develop senior technical leaders; and partner with Product, Design, Security, Architecture, and external AI providers to deliver scalable AI experiences.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering squad building and operating self-service customer experiences across NetBank and the CommBank App. The role combines hands-on software development, technical direction, architecture, production code, CI/CD, security, resilience, observability, and operational readiness with people leadership, coaching, performance management, and collaboration with Product and Design.

Leads the creation of dentsu’s AI Engineering discipline and portfolio of AI-driven marketing products. Responsibilities include defining architecture, engineering standards, evaluation practices, guardrails, and technical strategy; designing and deploying production-ready AI systems, LLM applications, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation; influencing stakeholders; and shaping long-term AI platform capabilities and strategy.

Leads the development and deployment of commercial AI products, platforms, LLM applications, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation. Establishes AI engineering standards, architecture patterns, evaluation practices, and guardrails across dentsu. Shapes the AI engineering function, guides technical strategy, manages complex initiatives from strategy through optimization, and translates emerging technologies into scalable business outcomes.

Leads technical delivery for major multidisciplinary building engineering projects in Melbourne. Responsibilities include setting mechanical design direction, conducting high-level reviews, managing client relationships, ensuring commercial and technical performance, supporting business growth, mentoring engineers, and delivering projects across health, defence, aviation, transport, sports infrastructure, and other sectors.

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing technically. Responsibilities include coaching, Agile/Scrum delivery, software design and coding practices, roadmap planning, stakeholder communication, quality improvement, and delivery metrics. The role requires full-stack development, cloud-based SaaS experience, web and API development, DevOps and SRE knowledge, and experience with testing and automation.

Build and ship AI-powered products across a portfolio of ventures, owning work from discovery and prototyping through production, measurement, and iteration. Design reliable AI systems using models, agents, tools, retrieval, and deterministic software. Develop reusable AI services and integration patterns while addressing security, privacy, testing, observability, and regulated-environment constraints. Collaborate with venture, product, design, and technical leaders to evaluate opportunities and deliver measurable customer and commercial outcomes.

Lead and grow Beca's Ports and Maritime practice across Australia and the Pacific. Provide technical leadership on port and coastal engineering projects, manage complex project delivery, build client relationships, drive business development, and foster a high-performance team culture. Support design through construction and deliver multidisciplinary maritime solutions.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for internal applications, integrations, and engineering platforms. Sets technical direction, manages people and delivery, oversees software lifecycle practices, and ensures secure, reliable Azure operations. The role includes hands-on design leadership across APIs, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, application security, observability, and complex technical problem-solving.

Leads the ML organization developing Zendesk Custom Agents, setting strategy, managing and mentoring engineers and scientists, and delivering production generative AI systems. Oversees agent reasoning, tool use, knowledge grounding, evaluation, reliability, safety, latency, and cost optimization. Partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Science to establish quality standards, monitor production performance, and connect ML improvements to measurable customer outcomes.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports secure AI, machine learning, generative AI, copilots, agents, and intelligent automation solutions. Responsibilities include building RAG systems, APIs, integrations, MLOps and DevOps practices, monitoring, governance, and responsible AI controls. The role translates business needs into production-ready AI products and partners with data engineering, cybersecurity, privacy, risk, and governance teams.

Lead Digital Engineering and BIM capability across transport and rail infrastructure projects in Victoria and Tasmania. Coordinate multidisciplinary models, federated information, design workflows, and collaboration platforms while ensuring compliance with Australian standards. Guide project teams, clients, and leaders on digital delivery, information management, automation, and innovation. Coach teams, promote consistent practices, and contribute to ANZ digital delivery leadership.

Develops fixed-transport optical networking solutions for telecommunications service-provider customers. Leads technical sales opportunities, solution architecture, tender and RFP responses, compliance, network design, demonstrations, trials, and technical workshops. Applies DWDM, optical link engineering, converged packet-optical technologies, and coherent transmission expertise while collaborating with sales, product, engineering, delivery, and support teams. The role is Melbourne-based and involves domestic and international travel.

Leads the API and frontend engineering teams building Keet, a peer-to-peer messaging and video-calling app. Owns technical design, API architecture, performance, reliability, engineering standards, team delivery, and leadership development. Partners with product managers to scope and prioritize features, challenge assumptions, and translate product vision into buildable work. Requires strong product judgment, JavaScript and React expertise, and familiarity with distributed or local-first systems.

Leads Jetstar’s enterprise data platform engineering and modelling capability. Oversees Snowflake and AWS environments, data pipelines, transformation, modelling, reliability, resilience, performance, security, cost, incident management, and disaster recovery. Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams, sets technical standards, develops specialist talent, and guides DevOps and MLOps practices. Partners with vendors and senior stakeholders while translating complex technical, risk, and commercial considerations into platform decisions.

Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, integrating, and deploying complex network platforms. Drives 5G RAN and O-RAN automation, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, AI/ML-based network optimization, and distributed-systems troubleshooting. Responsibilities include technology roadmaps, vendor assessment, technical investment recommendations, rApp lifecycle management, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and engineering capability development.

Leads and mentors a geographically distributed software engineering team building resilient orchestration systems with Temporal, TypeScript, and microservices. Responsibilities include workflow development, production support, root-cause analysis using Splunk, AWS, and MongoDB, system integrations, observability platforms, and Agentic AI workflow implementation. The role collaborates with product, architecture, service design, and delivery teams, contributes to technology research, and provides technical leadership across solution design, operations, and roadmap development.

Lead and develop engineering teams while providing hands-on technical direction, delivery oversight, and platform engineering leadership. Improve infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, developer tooling, and engineering workflows. Partner with squad leads and cross-functional leaders to prioritize work, remove blockers, manage technical debt, and improve delivery predictability. Drive practical AI adoption across development and operations, measuring its effect on quality, speed, and team effectiveness.