Head of Engineering - Human Resources Tech / Talent Acquisition (SaaS)
- Australian Market Leader with Tier One Enterprise Clients
- AI-Enabled Recruitment Technology
- Fully Remote Leadership Role — Huge Career Prospects
Our client is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering to own technical direction and day-to-day delivery for their recruitment technology SaaS platform. This is a player-coach role — you'll code at a senior/lead level while also owning sprint planning, ticket allocation, and the technical roadmap from day one.
Tech Stack
Backend/App: Laravel, MySQL
Frontend: Vue 3
Infrastructure: AWS (S3, OpenSearch, Redis)
Web front-end: WordPress, Varnish, NGINX
You'll Own
- Technical direction and architecture across the platform (job boards, career sites, ATS/HRIS integrations, AWS infrastructure, CMS)
- Sprint planning and ticket allocation for the dev team — ready to run this from day one
- Translating product priorities (set with the Founder/CEO and Product/Design lead) into a scoped, sequenced delivery plan
- Hands-on development at a senior/lead level alongside the team, primarily in Laravel/Vue 3
- Identifying and driving AI opportunities — both in the product and in how the team builds software
- Working with the Head of Infrastructure, dotted-line, on AWS infrastructure and platform reliability
- Input into hiring and growing the dev team as it scales
You Bring
- Strong product sense — you think about why, not just how
- Solid hands-on experience with Laravel, MySQL, and Vue 3; comfortable with WordPress/Varnish/NGINX front-end architecture and AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Redis)
- Practical, applied AI experience — both building AI-powered features and using AI tooling to speed up engineering workflows
- Senior/lead-level hands-on coding ability
- Experience running sprints/delivery in a small, close-knit SaaS team
- Comfortable stepping into an established team and taking ownership of process immediately
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