Lead Engineer, Engineering Productivity

Neara is a high-growth technology company, backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital and private equity investors, including EQT and Partners Group.

Neara has developed a software platform that builds sophisticated, engineering-grade 3D digital models of critical infrastructure, delivered under a software-as-a-service model. To date, Neara has primarily focused on modelling electricity grids but is also expanding rapidly into other infrastructure verticals such as telecommunications and rail.

Neara’s software platform has been adopted by infrastructure owners and operators around the world to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the industry. Neara’s platform delivers solutions across the entire asset life cycle, from the design and construction of new networks to access renewable energy generation, to high-value problem statements in asset management, through to the impact of climate change and extreme weather on the reliability and availability of critical commodities such as electricity.

Recognised as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024, our vision is to change how the world designs, builds and operates critical infrastructure. After achieving close to 90% market share in Australia and New Zealand, Neara’s primary growth focus is now the Americas, the UK and Europe, where a significant majority of our revenue growth is now derived.

As a Lead Engineer for Productivity Engineering, your customers are our 60+ Software and Machine Learning engineers. You will focus on the speed, effectiveness and reliability of our development loops to unlock engineering velocity and satisfaction.

As Neara scales, you will collaborate on the evolution from manual systems to a resilient, scalable platform. You will design and deliver modern CI/CD, improve developer experience, reduce feedback cycles, and embed security and reliability into the development lifecycle. Success means happy engineers, faster iteration, safer releases, and an engineering organization that can scale without friction.

You will educate and enable our engineering organisation with new tools and best practices, unlocking the ability for other engineers to build upon and scale your work further. You will also provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages continuous learning and growth.

At Neara, you will be part of a team that values your ideas, supports your development, and celebrates your successes. If you are motivated and results-driven, we’d like to meet you.

What You Will Do;

• Lead the architecture and evolution of our inner and outer developer loop—covering build orchestration, dependency management, and large monorepo workflows—to support rapid iteration at scale and the improvement of developer productivity.

• Create a measurement-driven culture to diagnose and resolve complex and ambiguous challenges across core infrastructure and developer tooling, using deep systems expertise and low-level profiling, tracing, and debugging techniques.

• Lead cross-team, cross-organization initiatives to reduce friction in the development lifecycle and address systemic risks, and enable teams to scale safely and efficiently.

• Partner closely with product management, engineering leadership, and senior stakeholders to define long-term technical strategy for engineering productivity.

• Lead and mentor engineers to grow domain expertise, empowering the broader engineering organization to collaborate effectively and deliver on these initiatives.

About you;

• Proven track record of building and operating large-scale, production-grade systems, with deep expertise in systems programming, infrastructure platforms, or developer tooling.

• Proven track record of leading complex, high-impact technical initiatives that span multiple teams and materially improve developer productivity.

• Experience designing infrastructure or internal platforms as products, with strong empathy for developer workflows and usability.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and align stakeholders without direct authority.

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and make sound architectural decisions with incomplete information.

• Continuous learner with a passion for improving engineering effectiveness at scale.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary & meaningful ESOP

• Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern

• Regular office events

• The real benefit is working on a genuinely complex, innovative and industry-leading product, making a genuine difference in the world around us.

Neara values diversity, belonging and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Please note that you will require current and unrestricted working rights to be considered for the role. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to offer visa sponsorship at this time.