Job Opportunities API

We’re hipages, Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting homeowners with trusted tradies. As an ASX-listed tech company, we're on a mission to transform the trade industry and improve lives. With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs. About the role: As Lead Engineer in our Marketplace Connections team, you’ll be the hands-on technical owner of systems that price and match leads, helping tradies find the right jobs at the right price and get fair value from every connection. This is a senior individual contributor role where you’ll stay close to the code, partner with the Engineering Manager, and own the technical quality of what the team ships. You’ll set the engineering bar, make sound architecture and trade-off decisions, and help the team find issues during development, not after go-live. You’ll also bring strong commercial judgement, helping the team connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes. From experimentation to production verification, you’ll make sure the team builds the right things, ships them well, and understands whether they are working. AI-forward engineering is also a key part of this role. You’ll understand how AI and agentic engineering can improve the software delivery lifecycle, from shaping work through to development, testing, deployment and post-release monitoring. You’ll help establish practical team practices and guardrails so AI is used safely, effectively and with clear quality standards. Why join our Engineering team? Hybrid working model   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 across engineering, product, design and data   Hands-on learning opportunities and workshops for continuous upskilling   How you will add value: Be the team’s hands-on technical owner, designing, building and reviewing across the full stack while leading by example.   Own architecture and system design, making pragmatic trade-offs and keeping complexity under control across distributed and event-driven systems.   Set and hold the engineering quality bar across CI/CD, testing, observability, security and operational readiness.   Shift quality left by shaping acceptance criteria, edge-case coverage and verification practices so issues are caught before release.   Confirm features are genuinely live, working as intended and moving the customer or business metrics they were designed to improve.   Lead incident response when needed and drive the operational improvements that prevent repeat issues.   Become a reference point for how marketplace growth products and systems work, including complex, legacy and less understood areas.   Turn critical system knowledge into clear documentation so the team can reduce key-person risk and make better decisions faster.   Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts and Engineers to test assumptions, spot risky dependencies and shape better solutions earlier.   Bring rigour to experimentation, including sound A/B test design, correct cohorts and metrics the team can trust.   Use AI to accelerate the delivery lifecycle and champion spec-driven development as a practical default for the team.   Lift the team’s capability in using AI and agentic engineering, including where it helps, where it falls short, and how to apply it responsibly. About you: You’re a hands-on full-stack engineer with strong technical judgement and a track record of shipping reli