Engineering Team Lead - Experience Platform

The role

You will lead the Experience Platform team, taking technical ownership of usability, performance, and visual appeal across desktop and mobile. You will split your time between leading and growing an engineering team and remaining hands-on with system design and production code.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team
• Own delivery for the team's domain by setting goals and milestones
• Own workflows and development practices
• Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces
• Foster collaboration with Product, Design, Customer Success and Sales teams
• Partner with other Tech Lead Managers to influence best practices and platform direction
• Contribute to system design and architectural decisions
• Write and review production-quality code
• Shape the client and product UX, including UI, design systems, and 3D visualisation
• Build APIs, extension points, and shared components

Required qualifications

• Technical people-leader who has owned delivery end to end
• Experience leading, mentoring, and growing engineers at multiple levels
• Ability to get up to speed fast in unfamiliar territory
• Product sense and ability to partner with Product
• Track record of architecting and shipping complex, production-grade systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience owning a design system, component library or platform SDK
• Experience with graphics, WebGL/GPU work, or rendering large 3D scenes
• A consumer product background
• Exposure to geospatial systems, utilities, energy, simulation, or physics-based platforms
• Strong mathematical reasoning or a mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering background
• Experience building software that models the real world

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful ESOP
• Fully flexible working arrangements
• Well-stocked office in Redfern
• Regular office events

Before you apply

• You will require current and unrestricted working rights
• We are not in a position to offer visa sponsorship at this time

About the company

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents. The company empowers large utilities to pinpoint risks and optimise investments through simulation of extreme weather and structural stress.