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

CAR Group has been driving innovation and growth since the 1990s. Collectively, our world leading marketplaces bring together deep expertise powered by the best people, data, and technology across Oceania, Asia and The Americas.

We deliver world leading technology and advertising solutions designed to make buying and selling a great experience and are the parent company of wholly owned digital marketplaces in Australia (carsales), South Korea (Encar), the United States (Trader Interactive) and Chile (chileautos), in addition to being a majority shareholder of webmotors in Brazil.

With a vision to create #1 digital marketplaces for vehicles around the world, we transform how people buy and sell across the globe.

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. Small enough to quickly change tact, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

Our Global Core Services Team play an integral part in building Platforms, Services and Applications used by the various teams and businesses across the entire CAR Group group of companies in Australia, LATAM, Asia and North America.  

What’s on offer

• The opportunity to work in a global role and make real, significant impact across all our international marketplaces.
• A place where you can move your career forward and where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team.
• A wide range of benefits such as 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, and six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
• 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.

What you’ll do

As the Engineering Team Lead, you will lead, influence and inspire your team of engineers with plenty of exciting work in the pipeline and you will get to experience all facets of the development lifecycle, roadmap and strategy planning.

We are looking for a technically proficient people leader to manage a team of engineers as well as partner with Technical Leads and Product Owners to deliver technology products and who will be excited in coaching, mentoring and developing people in the right direction. 

• Leading a team of talented engineers by promoting, supporting and improving the Ways of Working of the team.
• Driving and promoting simplicity, quality, speed, scale, value and innovation within the team.
• Managing and contributing to the team's sustainable delivery approach with quality & the customer in mind for the teams outcomes.
• Experience in software design, understanding in depth the software delivery lifecycle, importance of automation and the impact of technical debt to teams and software outcomes.
• You will drive innovation on products and services that will improve our customer experience as well as scale our systems as our customer-base continues to grow
• You will help formulate, interpret and implement our strategy for technology while ensuring the application and enforcement of technology standards across your team and the wider organization

What we are looking for?

If you love to come up with innovative solutions and drive change then this is a great opportunity for you

• Share expertise in people leadership, motivating, coaching, mentoring and developing software engineers.
• You have experience architecting and building robust and scalable platform in the cloud - on high traffic sites, for scalability, reliability and performance. You also know how to cost optimize your cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Demonstrates and is fluent in modern technology practices, including management and leadership methods, having had experience in coaching and mentoring these practices.
• Experience in risk management principles, understanding the impact of technical decisions on software risk.
• Experience in software design, understanding in depth the software delivery lifecycle, importance of automation and the impact of technical debt to teams and software outcomes.

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

• CAR Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we pride ourselves 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 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 work. 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 CAR Group 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.