Hipages Group

About hipages:

We're a proud Australian ASX-listed tech company, and our platform is the number one way for homeowners and tradies to connect for all things home improvement. Inspired and driven by our purpose of transforming the trade industry, building better lives for everyone, we are powered by a 350-strong team across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognised by WORK180 as #1 Employer for Women, we offer meaningful, impactful work, collaborating and innovating with the best and brightest in a transparent, supportive and fast-paced work environment.

About the role:

As a Lead Engineer at hipages, you’ll help drive the development of our platform and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design scalable solutions and solve complex technical challenges.

In this hands-on role, you’ll shape the future of our architecture, enhance DevOps practices, and contribute to a strong engineering culture. Join a high-performing team where your work makes a real impact.

Why join our Engineering team?

• Hybrid working model - 50% work from home
• In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth
• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Hands-on learning opportunities and workshops for continuous upskilling

How you will add value:

• Building infrastructure and platform tools to support future growth
• Developing APIs to enable integration with customers and third parties
• Implementing compelling DevOps processes and tools to support the hipages product delivery
• Participate in discussions of system architecture
• Help coach and upskill team members

About you:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven experience in multiple programming languages/frameworks, e.g. Node.js, PHP, React.js, Go, Python, etc.
• Experience working in an agile environment (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with containerisation technologies, preferably Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
  • Bonus if you have:
    • Experience with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
    • Experience with microservice architectures
    • Knowledge of security best practices

Take a look inside our home:

Offering an inspirational ‘home away from home’, our commitment to being a Great Place to Work means you will feel comfortable being your authentic self and get to do your best work everyday. Our medium company size means you get the best technology and tools to work with AND get to directly contribute to our product, service and/or customers. Our investment into continuous career development for everyone and a coach-style of leadership means a huge 85% of our team report they consider their direct leader ‘a great leader’!

Sounds good? Wait, there’s more! We also provide:

• A close-knit, diverse, respectful, collaborative teams that love to solve problems and jump on new opportunities;
• Agile, cross-functional teams who value teamwork - from Hackathon to team off-sites, to product roadshows, you get to experience it all;
• Competitive salary and benefits (including additional paid leave for birthdays, volunteering, service anniversaries and parental leave), plus our Employee Share Ownership Program means we’re all owners of hipages;
• Daily continental breakfast, fresh fruit and healthy snacks;
• Inspiring home-away-from-home office and location - based in the heart of Sydney CBD, only a few steps from Town Hall and Gadigal Stations, with multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration and social areas;
• High-touch personalised investment in your continuous career development;
• Social connection focus: Friday socials, company events and regular and fun teaming activities -we work hard but play hard too!

We prioritise Diversity:

Innovation & Collaboration are two important core values at hipages which both cannot be achieved successfully without a diverse and inclusive team. We don't expect you to be an expert in all areas and we are more interested in learning about you as a person, a team member and/or a leader. We have been endorsed by Work180 for our commitment to advancing women’s careers and are proud of our diversity of cultures, age span and sexual orientation/identification.

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other minority groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you don't tick every single box above, but you think you would be a great fit for the role and the hipages team, we encourage you to apply, we would LOVE to hear from you!

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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