Engineering Technical Lead

“Are you ready to be a big part of something big?”

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. 

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets.

A career in Technology will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our Core Team. In a nutshell Core team – powers how customers find what they’re looking for through Search, and enabling the systems that drive our Lead pipeline – a critical revenue engine for the business. 

All of our teams use a variation of C#, .NET core, ASP.NET MVC, Microservices and AWS. And a variation of angular or react – depending on the team.

What’s on offer

• Autonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• Support of a highly engaged, high-performing team. We have incredible talent in carsales that you will learn from.
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
• Regular Hackathons, endless learning and development opportunities, and a range of activities that will help support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

What’ll you’ll be doing

We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to help us build and evolve our services across Search, Leads, Image processing and others. These platforms play a foundational role in shaping seamless user interactions with our digital platforms, enabling positive experiences. Your work here will directly influence user engagement and business growth.

• Understand and share expertise in mentoring and coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver enhanced levels of automation and auto-remediation across our systems. Automation will be a key focus to all solutions implemented.
• As an owner of our key platforms, lead the architecture and design of our software as well as the performing technical analysis of requirements for work item generation and estimation, You will drive the technical roadmap & architecture across our application suite.
• Create Opportunity canvas' and communicate the value of new initiatives then turn them into execution plans
• Champion the team’s developments and solutions to the wider development community at carsales
• Mentoring and challenge the development team with new technical skills and knowledge.
• Communicate your vision of the future of our key products such as search engine, fraud detection, leads system, etc
• Work with the Team Lead to define the evolve the ways of working, including the work stream, development tooling, code flow, and the definition of done.
• Mentor and coach junior team members and help them to grow.

What we are looking for?

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously)
• Understand and share expertise with C#, Python .NET core, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript and angular/react. 
• Hands-on experience with tools and languages for deploying infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture and AWS services such as Amazon OpenSearch, ECS, etc. 
• Experience developing and deploying of containerised applications using Docker via CI/CD tools such as Github Actions. 
• Experience building event-based systems using queue systems i.e. RabbitMQ.
• Sound knowledge and experience on SQL, data storage, query optimization in SQL Server, Oracle or Postgres or Dynamo DB.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tooling such as Sumologic, NewRelic and Cloudwatch

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 you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll 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.