Engineering Director

Join to apply for the Engineering Director role at Betashares.

Betashares is one of Australia's leading financial services brands and a market leader in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry. Betashares Direct is a wealth platform designed to help all Australians financially progress and aims to become a true 'one-stop platform' to help Australians invest and save for retirement.

This is an opportunity to join the engineering leadership team at Betashares Direct and be responsible for scaling delivery of product through people management, embedding AI into the way we work, vendor coordination, and operational excellence. You will be empowered to manage the engineering P&L, budget, and lead a high-performing engineering team. You will work closely with other business units to ensure technology aligns with business objectives. The role expects you to hire, manage people, and increase delivery velocity through AI adoption and continuous improvement of the delivery model, including managing on-shore and off-shore teams, vendor relationships, and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Become a member of Betashares Direct senior leadership team.
• Collaborate with other divisions (Product & Design, Support, Operations, Management) to align technology with business objectives.
• Represent Engineering internally as a subject matter expert when required.
• Help build Betashares' reputation as a technology leader and create financial products with great customer experiences.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performance engineering and technology team.
• Own engineering team structure, career development, hiring, and scaling to optimise delivery.
• Drive career development, run performance reviews, and manage promotions.
• Champion and implement AI tools and workflows to increase engineering throughput; embed AI into product delivery and backlog management.
• Own velocity and delivery predictability across front-end and back-end teams.
• Foster a high-cadence, risk-aware feature and product development function.
• Review team structure and implement changes as required.
• Unblock tech leads with strong collaboration with Product Management and Design.
• Escalate and resolve interdependencies across platforms (web, mobile, core platform).
• Co-manage technology budget and ensure efficient use of resources.
• Own third-party vendor relationships.
• Own technology due diligence, security audits, integration planning, roadmap alignment, team integration and risk management.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven track record of scaling an engineering team with AI.
• Experience architecting applications in cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Exposure to architecture patterns such as event-driven and microservices.
• Exposure to Golang or Rust is beneficial.
• Exposure to container orchestration services such as Kubernetes or AWS Fargate is highly desirable.
• Exposure to accounting/financial services is beneficial.
• CI/CD expertise with modern pipelines and practices for high-cadence deployments.
• Monitoring and observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar.
• Data engineering experience with data pipelines, ETL processes, and tools like Airflow or Kafka.
• API design experience for secure, scalable RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Front-end exposure can aid cross-functional collaboration, though the role is backend-focused.
• Experience managing budgets.
• Experience in FinTech and startup environments is beneficial.
• Experience building and managing high-performance teams.

Tech stack

Betashares has a polyglot engineering team. A minimum of at least one default language is preferred. Our stack evolves and includes:

• Postgres, Redshift, AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes, Vault, Cloudflare Workers.
• Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, Elixir, Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose.
• Microservices, AWS, Linux, GitHub, gRPC, GraphQL, Serverless, Terraform.
• Storybook, Vue, React, Svelte.
• Segment, Braze, Amplitude.

Benefits

Betashares believes our most important asset is our people and we are proud of our culture. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

• Continuous career development and training opportunities.
• Access to a health and wellbeing platform with physical, mental, social and financial support programs.
• Volunteering days off to contribute to causes that matter to you.
• CBD offices with fully stocked kitchens and regular team meals.
• Fun and inclusive social events.

Our Values

We aim to create a workplace that supports success and enjoyment. We value ambition, drive, honesty and humility. We support each other, respect clients and competitors, and embrace innovation, measured risk-taking, and learning from mistakes.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

#J-18808-Ljbffr

---