Engineering Manager

• Collaborative, supportive, Values driven environment
• Great coffee (and a variety of tea) and fresh fruit
• Avoid the traffic: we are outside the CBD and close to public transport
• Melbourne or Sydney | 4 days/week in office
• Package | Up to $230k base + super + 10% bonus
• Stack | Java/JVM background moving into React/TypeScript/Node

Engineering Manager
The Opportunity:
One of Australia's leading digital marketplace businesses is transforming its flagship data intelligence SaaS tool.

The platform had a deep customer base prior to being acquired by the group but was never fully integrated into the wider group's technology ecosystem.

That's now changing.

A modernisation programme is underway: legacy Java and Tapestry giving way to React, TypeScript and Node, with the product increasingly plugging into shared services elsewhere in the business instead of duplicating them.

What You'd Own:

• Two squads split across Sydney and Melbourne: one holding down the existing platform and pushing the migration forward, the other building the future product
• The technical judgement calls behind the modernisation: what moves, what's rebuilt, what's retired
• Enough hands-on involvement to actually get underneath the legacy Java codebase, not just read the architecture diagrams
• Influence over the React/TypeScript/Node future state, including where AI-enabled workflows fit down the line
• Working relationships across other engineering teams, since the future platform leans on services built outside your own squads

Experience that this role calls for:

• Java or JVM background, even if it's not what you're writing today, followed by a move into React, TypeScript and Node
• Personally led a legacy-to-modern platform transformation, not just observed one from the delivery side
• You're a hands-on player-coach type EM who is still close enough to the code and architecture to challenge a design decision, review a pull request, or debug something gnarly, without needing to be the team's top committer
• Strong .NET backgrounds also welcome, provided you can read your way into an unfamiliar Java platform while credibly leading the team toward the future state
• Comfortable running two squads and managing the handoffs between a maintenance-and-migration team and a build-the-future team
• A real point of view on what should be migrated versus rebuilt versus retired, and the ability to defend it
• Modernised a product that was acquired or historically under-invested in
• Shared API/platform integration work across multiple engineering teams
• Strangler-pattern or incremental migration experience specifically

Apply now or reach out for more information.

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At Latitude IT, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and value workplace diversity. We encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people with a disability, and people from a culturally diverse background to apply.