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Engineering Team Lead - Experience Platform
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Australia
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Tech Lead Manager to lead Neara's Experience Platform, taking technical ownership of the platform's usability, performance and visual appeal across desktop and mobile. A people-first leadership role with strong hands-on software engineering depth.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Australia
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, supporting both technical development and career progression
- Own delivery for the team's domain: setting clear goals, defining milestones, and ensuring projects ship reliably and sustainably
- Own workflows and development practices that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams break down complex technical challenges into achievable plans
- Foster strong collaboration with Product, Design, Customer Success and Sales teams to ensure alignment and effective execution
- Partner closely with other Tech Lead Managers to raise the bar across engineering: influence best practices, tooling, and long-term platform direction, and help scale Neara's engineering culture
- Stay hands-on: contribute to system design and architectural decisions, and write and review production-quality code across performance-critical, data-intensive components
- Shape the client and product UX end to end: the UI and design system, rendering and interaction performance, and the 3D visualisation of very large networks
- Build the capabilities other engineering teams build on top of — APIs, extension points and shared components — as well as the features end users touch directly
What we're looking for
- Care factor for end user app experience: UI, design systems, performance and 3D rendering, with taste for interaction design and judgement to respect expert users
- Scaling a user experience to millions of objects: aggregation, loading and unloading concerns, and visualisation techniques that keep an interface responsive at that volume
- Enabling other engineering teams as well as the end user: ability to get to know your customer, internal or external, and elicit good requirements
- Harmonising user experiences across many use cases: bringing coherence to a product used by many different roles
- Product engineering for expert tooling: strong track record building or leading on dense, stateful, expert-user tools (e.g., CAD, design tools like Figma, GIS, IDEs, or serious data viz) rather than standard SaaS dashboards
- A technical people-leader who's owned delivery end to end: comfortable operating across engineering and product, accountable for outcomes, and experience leading, mentoring, and growing engineers at multiple levels
- You get up to speed fast in unfamiliar territory: walked into a technical area you didn't already know, built context without hand-holding, found the heart of the problem, and delivered
- Product sense, and a strong partner to Product: keep the team focused on customer outcomes and stay close to what utilities actually face
- You plan a route, then adapt as you learn: delivered ambitious, complex projects incrementally, shipping real progress and changing course on evidence
- Deep technical credibility: strong track record of architecting and shipping complex, production-grade systems, with judgement to make sound trade-offs
- Formal grounding: a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- No-ego, outcome-oriented, and detail-obsessed
- Current and unrestricted working rights required
Nice to have
- Experience owning a design system, component library or platform SDK that other teams depended on
- Experience with graphics, WebGL/GPU work, or rendering large 3D scenes in a browser or desktop client
- 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
- Extra bonus points for building software that models the real world we live in
Your team
Experience Platform
Experience platform teams building robust features and capabilities that serve both internal & external customers
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About Neara
Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, helping asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.
Mission
Empower the world's largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.
Key facts
- Digital twins of electricity grids across four continents
- Simulates extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale
- Uses AI and machine learning from data classification to complex scenario analysis
- Well-stocked office in Redfern
What they value
- Customer centricity
- Innovation
- Ownership of the mission
- Diversity, belonging and equal employment opportunities