We’re looking for a Security Engineer to join an internal program. This is a stand alone role in Australia, with plenty of visibility and the chance to really make an impact. The role has opened up because the previous engineer was promoted internally, so it’s a great opportunity for someone who loves solving problems and making things stronger, smarter, and safer every day.

In this role, you’ll take Purview, DLP, data classification, and access management from light usage to fully operational. You’ll work closely with third-party SOC and SIEM teams to make sure monitoring, detection, and response actually work for the business. You’ll also take audit findings from ISO 27001, IRAP, Essential 8, and similar programs, and turn them into real improvements, running risk assessments, architecture reviews, and security projects along the way. Part of the role is building playbooks, dashboards, and automation to make security simple and effective.

You’ll bring experience with Microsoft security tools like Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Intune, and Purview. Experience with audits, controls, and turning risk findings into action is essential, and you should be a clear communicator who can explain complex security concepts in plain language and influence across teams.

Bonus points if you’ve got hands-on scripting or automation experience with PowerShell or Python, exposure to hybrid cloud or on-prem environments, or experience with privacy, data protection, or SOC operations.

This is a role with real visibility and impact, giving you the chance to take a Microsoft-focused security stack and run with it. You’ll be supported, but you’ll also have the autonomy to make meaningful changes that strengthen the organisation’s security every day.

russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

This is more than just a job. It’s a chance to join a fast-moving, innovative scale-up that is committed to helping employees grow both personally and professionally, while delivering solutions that genuinely transform its clients’ businesses.

As a Software Implementation Consultant, you’ll sit at the intersection of technology and business, helping clients translate complex processes into smart, scalable system configurations.

We’re looking for someone who loves solving problems, isn’t afraid to dive into the code, and enjoys collaborating with both technical teams and customers.

What You’ll Do

• Configure the platform: data models, workflows, business rules, and financial calculations.
• Analyse and transform data for system integrations.
• Test and validate solutions to ensure quality delivery.
• Work closely with clients and developers to translate requirements into technical action.
• Document changes, track progress, and help shape new product features.

What we are looking for 

• Hands-on coding experience (Java, C#, C++, Python, or similar OOP languages).
• A genuine passion for technology and curiosity about how things work.
• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with databases (SQL) and software configuration.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• (Bonus) Experience in general insurance, SaaS or complex rule-based systems.

*University-level coding experience is welcome along with 1-2 years of commercial experience; what matters most is your curiosity, initiative, and drive to learn.

Why You’ll Love this role 

• Work with smart, collaborative people who value humility and continuous improvement.
• Be part of a scale-up that encourages growth and internal promotion. 
• Combine your technical skills and customer insight to deliver real impact.
• Flexible workplace 

If you would like more information, reach out to Ailbhe at The Onset, 0450530351, email ailbhe@theonset.com.au or apply online

Software Engineering Manager (AI Systems & Engineering Delivery)

If you’re looking for a role where engineering, delivery, and product direction all sit in your hands, this is it.

This team is building the orchestration layer that lets organisations actually use AI in real time, not just talk about it. Their platform is already automating high-stakes workflows for customers who need accuracy, speed, and technical depth. Demand is scaling fast, and they need someone who can keep engineering velocity high without compromising quality, while making key technical and delivery decisions.

The Role

You’ll take ownership of day-to-day planning, delivery, and technical direction across a sharp, senior engineering team. This isn’t a “manager with no context” role, you’ll stay close to the code, work directly with customers, and help shape how the platform evolves as new workloads, integration patterns, and AI use-cases land.

You’ll be deeply involved in prioritisation and trade-off decisions, architecture discussions and system optimisation, delivery pipelines, QA, debugging, and risk management, as well as mentoring engineers and influencing team culture. Think of this role as a hybrid of software engineering lead, project manager, and product delivery owner, with real accountability for outcomes.

Why This Role Matters

The team is building foundational infrastructure for agentic AI, distributed collaboration, and real-time decision-making. Timelines are tight, technical complexity is high, and customers are pushing for more. Your work directly impacts product pace, quality, and the company’s ability to scale sustainably.

You’ll Thrive Here If You

• Have 3+ years leading teams or managing technical delivery in engineering-heavy environments
• Have recent hands-on full-stack experience (Node.js, React, PostgreSQL) — you’ve been coding and shipping in the last 6–18 months
• Understand how to deliver AI-powered products, including practical experience with LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, etc.)
• Are comfortable across the ecosystem: APIs, agentic frameworks, MCP, RPA, vector databases, distributed systems
• Know how to ship scalable systems on Azure, with strong grounding in API design and real-time collaboration features
• Can make trade-offs, take ownership of decisions, and be accountable for outcomes
• Can juggle multiple client projects, keeping focus while guiding engineers
• Want a seat close to leadership and are ready to influence product direction

Tech You’ll Touch

Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, pgvector, LangChain, Llama, ChatGPT, Claude, MCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI/CD.

What’s in It for You

• High impact: Your decisions directly drive engineering velocity and customer outcomes
• Real complexity: AI systems, distributed architectures, multi-agent orchestration
• Founder access: Work directly with a deeply technical founding team and some of the best execs and investors in Australia
• Speed & ownership: Minimal bureaucracy, maximum autonomy
• Equity: Early-stage upside in a fast-growing company for the right candidate

Who You Are

• 1Practical, curious, and unflappable
• Recently hands-on in code, but ready to lead a team and make high-stakes decisions
• Loves clarity, hates blockers, and knows how to keep a team aligned without micromanaging
• Comfortable with the messy, iterative nature of AI product development
• Ready to own outcomes, influence culture, and make trade-offs that matter

Interested?

Apply now

Senior Hardware Production Engineer
Sydney | Full-time | Hybrid

The Mission
A senior hardware team in Sydney builds complex electronic systems that must work first time and continue to work at scale.

The PCB designs are largely completed upstream. This role exists to ensure those designs survive manufacturing, supplier variability, and real-world, rugged conditions.

This is where hardware moves from design intent to repeatable production.

What You’ll Work On
• Reviewing high-speed and RF-adjacent PCB designs for production readiness
• Assessing schematics, layouts, and BOMs with a manufacturing and reliability focus
• Working directly with suppliers to validate components, processes, and incoming quality
• Defining inspection and test approaches that catch issues before they scale
• Investigating failures and driving proper root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Feeding lessons learned back into upstream design teams to improve future revisions
• Supporting audits and quality frameworks without turning engineering into paperwork
• Acting as the technical gate between design and volume production

What Matters Here
• Strong experience with high-speed PCB or RF-influenced designs
• Comfort reviewing and challenging existing designs rather than creating them from scratch
• Hands-on experience with Altium schematics and PCB layouts
• Strong understanding of PCB assembly drawings and manufacturing documentation
• Practical use of quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, 8D and root cause analysis
• Experience working with external suppliers and manufacturing partners
• Familiarity with ISO-style quality management systems

The Type of Engineer Who Thrives
An engineer who has seen boards fail in production and understands why. Someone who enjoys tightening tolerances, closing feedback loops, and preventing issues before they reach the field. Design-literate, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating without a management title.

Why This Role Matters
The hardware is non-trivial. The environments are unforgiving. Errors are expensive. This role protects the product and the roadmap by ensuring what gets built matches what was intended, every time.

The Opportunity
• Senior individual contributor role with real technical ownership
• Direct influence on how hardware moves into production at scale
• Close proximity to manufacturing, suppliers, and real failure modes
• Competitive salary + super + bonus

If you want to work on hardware where production realities matter as much as design intent, reach out.

Join a Deep-Tech Adventure as a Tech Lead – Cloud, Kubernetes & High-Performance Systems
Hybrid: 3 Days in North Sydney | 2 Days WFH

Imagine joining a well-funded Australian deep-tech startup at the very moment it’s redefining how engineering teams build and scale cloud platforms. Backed by top-tier global VCs, and founded by leaders from Google, ROKT, and large-scale cloud systems, this is your chance to help shape a category-defining product from the ground up.

As a founding engineering hire, you won’t just write code- you’ll architect the platform, influence technical strategy, and work side by side with ex-FAANG engineers building distributed, high-performance systems. You’ll take ownership of large-scale backend systems, design the core distributed cloud platform, and tackle deep challenges in performance, scalability, resilience, and orchestration. You’ll mentor early engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with the founders on architecture and product direction.

What You Bring

• Extensive backend engineering experience with complex cloud or distributed systems

• Strong skills in Python, Go, or Java

• Deep cloud expertise (AWS ideal; Azure/GCP also valued)

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architecture

• Proven ability building high-throughput, low-latency, or performance-critical systems

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a builder’s mindset

• Bonus: background in cloud infrastructure or cybersecurity

The culture here is low-ego, high-ownership, and built on trust-no bureaucracy, just engineers solving real problems at pace. If you want to tackle complex engineering challenges, shape a platform that could define its category, and make a massive impact, this is the place to do the best work of your career.

Reach out to reema@theonset.com.au to explore this opportunity.

Senior Fullstack Engineer (Backend leaning, AI-Facing Systems) 
 
This is one of those rare engineering roles that actually lives up to the hype.

Join and immediately contribute to a high calibre founding team building real, production-grade AI systems. Their product is already in the hands of paying customers, and demand is outpacing bandwidth. They need someone exceptional to help them scale.

You’ll design and ship backend architecture that powers intelligent agents used by government agencies, global enterprises, and mid-size tech firms. These systems automate complex business processes like RFPs, audits, and compliance through deep integration with CRMs, ERPs, and LLMs.
 
Why this role matters
This isn’t basic software, it’s orchestrating distributed systems around foundation models and vector databases, with serious up-time and performance requirements. You’ll be one of the first five engineers on the team, shaping architecture, tooling, and technical direction.

There’s AI in the stack, but it’s the hard part of AI. You’ll work with model scaffolding, low-latency services, embedding search, and fine-tuning pipelines. You don’t need to have done it all before, but you should be deeply curious and ready to learn fast.
 
You’ll thrive here if you:

• Have strong experience in backend-heavy roles using Node.js and TypeScript
• Have worked on distributed systems, real-time APIs, or performance-critical infrastructure
• Have meaningful experience with AI projects, such as finetuning models, using Langchain, or working with vector databases like pgvector, Pinecone, or Neo4j
• Have shipped serious features end-to-end in a startup or fast-paced team
• Want to help build not just code, but a company
• Bonus points if you’ve worked on knowledge graphs, LLM integration, or embedding pipelines. 

 
What’s in it for you

• Massive impact. You’ll be building the product, not maintaining it
• Serious technical stretch. This is complex, greenfield work
• Equity upside. Early-stage stock options are available
• Founder access. Collaborate directly with a hands-on, technical founder
• Speed and autonomy. Work with a sharp, lean team that values deep work

 
Interested? Apply now 

We’re looking for a Cloud Security Lead to join a Security Design team, working on a major 3-year ERP transformation project. Right now, they're in the discovery phase, moving toward design, and the focus is on migrating everything from Oracle on-premises systems to Oracle Cloud, including Oracle Fusion SaaS.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for assessing risks whenever we onboard new platforms, develop something in-house, or make major system changes. You’ll review architecture details and design patterns to make sure we’re applying the right controls for data protection and state protection. You’ll also identify security gaps, provide recommendations, and implement solutions like WAFs, API security, and other cloud controls.

You’ll work closely on the migration of systems and data to Oracle Cloud, manage integrations with other SaaS platforms, and ensure supply chain security considerations are addressed. Understanding cloud control requirements and regulatory obligations is key, and you’ll need to make sure compliance is built into every step of the project.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud and Oracle Fusion SaaS, but if you don’t, strong experience with large-scale cloud migrations will also be highly relevant. You should be confident reviewing architecture, implementing secure design patterns, and providing practical recommendations, all while working collaboratively across teams and vendors.

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

Could you be the next Engineering Manager to join a leading Global Healthcare Organisation powering millions of critical decisions across pathology, radiology, and clinical services every year?

After decades of growth, they’re now on a major digital transformation journey: modernising technology, elevating customer experiences, and building digital products that genuinely improve healthcare.

One of the most important and loved products in our ecosystem is a referring-doctor portal used daily to access patient pathology results across Australia.

We’re looking for a hands-on, people-first Engineering Manager to take this product into its next era.

Why this role matters

The portal is stable, highly valued by customers, and has huge opportunities ahead. We’re moving from “feature delivery” to true digital product thinking - focused on performance, customer insights, differentiation, and modern engineering practices.

This role exists to:

• Build and mentor a tight-knit team of capable engineers

• Bring clarity to an under-documented, complex tech ecosystem

• Shape the future technical direction of the portal

• Partner closely with a Product Manager to define strategy & roadmap

• Make high-impact decisions like whether to bring mobile development in-house or how to optimise performance for doctors in high-pressure workflows

This is a role with real autonomy, ownership, and purpose.

What you’ll be doing

Leadership & People

• Lead and grow a team of six engineers (web, integrations, full-stack)

• Provide technical coaching, guidance, and career development

• Create a culture of clarity, strong communication, and continuous improvement

Technical Direction & Delivery

• Set the technical strategy and architecture for the portal

• Be hands-on when needed - solution design, code reviews, technical problem-solving

• Identify performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency improvements

• Influence mobile development strategy

Product & Strategy

• Partner with Product and CX teams to deeply understand customer needs

• Help define the roadmap based on real insights

• Build a comprehensive picture of the current state (data, gaps, tech landscape)

• Drive a shift towards experience-led, customer-centric product thinking

Tech environment

Our stack includes:

• .NET (core), Angular, API integrations

• A long-standing custom Information Management System

• A native mobile app 

• Established DevOps, CI/CD, and internal architecture support

We don’t need a specialist in one area - we need a smart, pragmatic engineering generalist who knows enough across web, backend, integrations, and mobile to make great decisions.

Who you are

You’ll thrive here if you are:

• A hands-on Engineering Manager who still loves solving technical problems

• Strong in solution architecture and able to translate engineering into business outcomes

• Someone who enjoys untangling complex systems with little documentation

• Curious, collaborative, warm - communicates early, often, and clearly

• Motivated by purpose

• Comfortable in environments with legacy tech, complexity, and lots of opportunity

You’re probably not from a hyper-scaled enterprise or a move-fast-break-things startup. You’re likely from that sweet spot in the middle - where you’ve owned products end-to-end, paced delivery well, and rolled up your sleeves alongside the team.

Why join

• Purpose-led work in health-tech

• A genuinely collaborative, values-led team

• Leadership committed to modern engineering practices

• Opportunity to shape the future of digital in a global healthcare organisation

• Hybrid work, stability, and strong long-term career pathways

If you’re an Engineering Manager who enjoys leading with purpose, solving real problems, and guiding a product with massive impact across Australia’s healthcare system - I’d love to chat > Dani - Danielle@theonset.com.au

Join a Deep-Tech Adventure as a Tech Lead – Cloud, Kubernetes & High-Performance Systems
Hybrid: 3 Days in North Sydney | 2 Days WFH

Imagine joining a well-funded Australian deep-tech startup at the very moment it’s redefining how engineering teams build and scale cloud platforms. Backed by top-tier global VCs, and founded by leaders from Google, ROKT, and large-scale cloud systems, this is your chance to help shape a category-defining product from the ground up.

As a founding engineering hire, you won’t just write code- you’ll architect the platform, influence technical strategy, and work side by side with ex-FAANG engineers building distributed, high-performance systems. You’ll take ownership of large-scale backend systems, design the core distributed cloud platform, and tackle deep challenges in performance, scalability, resilience, and orchestration. You’ll mentor early engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate closely with the founders on architecture and product direction.

What You Bring

• Extensive backend engineering experience with complex cloud or distributed systems

• Strong skills in Python, Go, or Java

• Deep cloud expertise (AWS ideal; Azure/GCP also valued)

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architecture

• Proven ability building high-throughput, low-latency, or performance-critical systems

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a builder’s mindset

• Bonus: background in cloud infrastructure or cybersecurity

The culture here is low-ego, high-ownership, and built on trust-no bureaucracy, just engineers solving real problems at pace. If you want to tackle complex engineering challenges, shape a platform that could define its category, and make a massive impact, this is the place to do the best work of your career.

Reach out to reema@theonset.com.au to explore this opportunity.

Project Manager – Web & Mobile Delivery

Remote / Work From Home – PH-based | Full-time

Lead digital experiences. Drive high-impact web and mobile projects. Shape the future of delivery for top-tier clients.

Join a global digital consultancy that partners with some of Australia’s most recognised brands, delivering innovative web and mobile experiences that make a real impact.

As a Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of our delivery teams—guiding projects from kickoff to completion, mentoring teams, and ensuring client outcomes are exceptional. You won’t just manage timelines—you’ll solve real-world delivery challenges, balance priorities, and influence project strategy across multiple international projects.

If you’re highly organised, proactive, and thrive in collaborative, growth-driven environments—this role is for you.

What you’ll do:

• Lead cross-functional Agile teams across multiple web and mobile projects

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to track progress, flag risks, and ensure timely delivery

• Take ownership of project setup, governance, and reporting using Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Miro

• Mentor and support delivery teams while managing scope, timelines, and client expectations

• Participate in Agile ceremonies—stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives

• Contribute to solution design, technical discussions, and process improvements

• Ensure high-quality delivery with a focus on efficiency, organisation, and client satisfaction

What we’re looking for:

• 2–4 years of project management experience in digital delivery, consultancy, or agency environments

• Proven success delivering web and mobile projects (SaaS, networking, or infrastructure experience is NOT suitable)

• Strong expertise in Agile, Scrum, and SDLC methodologies; Scrum Master facilitation is essential (certification a plus)

• Exceptional English communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

• Highly autonomous, confident, and capable of managing multiple concurrent projects while balancing priorities

• Critical thinker with strong organisational skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and collaboration tools (Miro/Slack)

• Tertiary qualification in IT, design, or related field desirable but not mandatory

• Experience with Australian or international clients is a must

Why join us?

• Work remotely, PH-based, with a flexible and supportive culture

• Lead projects that make a tangible impact for international clients

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams who value insight, creativity, and autonomy

• Gain exposure to Australian and international markets, expanding your skills and influence

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment where your initiative and decisions are recognised

Be part of a team that thrives on delivery, collaboration, and innovation.

Ready to lead web and mobile projects that truly matter? Apply now!