Help Build the Platform Everyone Will Be Talking About

Technical Lead - Java | Remote (AU) | Around $180K + Super (pending experience)

We’re working with a fast-growing product company backed by top-tier investors and global operators. With millions of users and exciting traction across ANZ with growth globally, they're creating a first-of-its-kind platform that connects people to great experiences - with speed, flexibility, and flavour.

We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead (Java) to help scale. You’ll take charge of a high-potential engineering team and lead the delivery of new features, new products, and global expansion - while still rolling up your sleeves to write clean, scalable code.

🚀 What You’ll Do

• Own backend technical direction and architecture across a modern, fast-moving product

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across feature squads

• Ship high-quality features using Java, AWS, GraphQL/REST APIs

• Make key decisions on performance, reliability, and infrastructure

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning

👀 What We’re Looking For

• Strong Java backend skills and deep knowledge of cloud environments (ideally AWS)

• Comfortable leading teams while staying technically hands-on

• Experience designing scalable systems and working in modern Agile environments

• Great communicator - you’ll work with product, mobile, design, and stakeholders

• Someone who thrives in fast-moving, scale-up-style teams

• Bonus points if you’ve worked on real-time systems, high-volume APIs, or marketplaces

❤️ Why You’ll Love It Here

• No deadweight, no corporate politics - just great humans building something that matters

• Flexible working: work from anywhere in Australia (with a supportive hybrid team vibe)

• Serious impact: your leadership will shape the product, the team, and the business

• Salary around $180k + Super, depending on experience

Sounds like your next dream role? Reach out to Monica@theonset.com.au 

• 6-month FTC contract with strong potential to go perm
• High growth financial services that has adopted agile ways of working
• $120k including super

As this business embarks on significant growth and transformation, with a strong focus on driving connectivity with its customers through compelling content across multiple channels including web and mobile, they are scaling their teams to bring in specialist resources. to this end, you'll play a lead role in bringing customer-facing websites to life through engaging, high-performing content that informs, converts, and delivers great user experiences.

 Picture yourself as the Digital Producer across multiple digital platforms, working closely the squads to build pages for web and mobile applications, playing a key role in optimising the digital customer journey and supporting lead generation through content and UX/UI excellence.

 What You’ll Do

• Create content pages for web and mobile apps.
• Leverage available components within the CMS platforms to build and deploy pages.
• Create content aligned with brand guildelines while creating remarkable UX and delivering best practice SEO.
• Create digital content that supports search engine ranking.
• Collaborate within a cross functional squad of UX designers, testers, engineers and BAs.
• Participate in daily scrums, sprint planning, review, retro showcase and backlog refinement.
• Participate in UAT and PVT testing.

What We're Looking For and What It'll Take to Drive Impact

• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile framework ideally from SAAS, financial services or tech/product led organisations.
• Demonstrated experience in page, component building and content production for mobile and web applications.
• Experience with content management systems eg Optimizely or Wordpress.
• Experience using Figma or Sketch, taking designs into CMS build.
• Experience using Jira to manage sprint deliverables.
• A keen eye for detail and UX/UI design.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• A passion for working closely with diverse stakeholder groups.

Sound like you? Apply now and help shape the digital experience of a business that truly puts people first.

Principal Platform Engineer
DevEx, GitLab, and Doing Things Properly
Sydney, hybrid

Tired of being the DevEx janitor?

You’ve spent your career improving developer experience. Often cleaning up messes you didn’t make, with half the influence you needed.

This time, you’ll lead the strategy. Define the roadmap. And fix things the right way, with the runway and support to back it up.

In your first 6 months, you’ll lead a GitLab migration and build the platform experience that 150 engineers actually rely on. From CI to observability, in an environment where DevEx isn’t an afterthought.

Responsibilities have been deliberately split.
There’s a team focused on Linux infrastructure. And a dedicated Platform team (yours) focused on internal enablement.

Your mission is to help developers build faster and better.

Instead of juggling conflicting priorities, you’ll have the space to go deep on DevEx. To design, build, and scale the tooling that makes a real difference to how engineers work.

You won’t be firefighting production in AWS. You’ll be building systems that improve velocity, clarity, and developer confidence. From GitLab and CI/CD to observability, automation, and security workflows.

The messy stuff (the good kind)…
Right now, some of the smartest engineers are working on FPGA systems, AI models, and radar tech. But their workflows don’t always keep pace. GitLab adoption is still growing, CI/CD varies across teams, and tooling is evolving.

This role is your chance to bring consistency and scale DevEx across a truly unique engineering environment.

The maturity level is what you’d expect from a fast-paced scale-up, there's advocacy for change, which means more opportunity to shape things properly. You’re not maintaining someone else’s mess; you’re helping define the platform strategy and centralise tooling from the ground up.

This is a Principal role. You’ll have real influence. You’ll shape direction. You’ll prioritise the roadmap. You’ll help grow the team around you. And you’ll be trusted to get on with it. No micromanagement, no status theatre.You’ll also have the flexibility to work in a hybrid setup with a mix of in-office collaboration and remote focus time, based on what works best for you and the team.

The work is visible. The impact is real. And the runway is long.

Want a DevEx challenge with some teeth?We're looking for someone at the Principal level. Not just technically sharp, but able to tell the story of why things were built the way they were. If you’ve led DevEx improvements, driven adoption of CI/CD, or untangled the mess between dev and infra teams, we want to hear about it.

You'll also need to be comfortable working close to the metal. Proficiency in backend systems programming or scripting (Go, Python, Bash) is important as you'll need to build tools that engineers actually use.

Don’t worry if your CV isn’t ready. Let’s talk.

Julien@theonset.com.au |  0406 158 832

Head of Partnerships – Global Fintech

• Identify enterprise partnerships for a growing fintech
• Manage end to end partner lifecycle and drive commercial outcomes
• Circa $180k - $200k plus super and uncapped bonus

This fast-paced organisation supports businesses with tailored solutions in FX and payments.  With strong momentum across Australia and a dynamic global footprint, this is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth business and make an impact both short and long term.

What you’ll do:

• Identify and create partner opportunities targeting specific partner verticals.

• Develop customer journeys that align with partner ecosystems.

• Manage partner go-live, ensuring a smooth onboarding and activation of end customers.

• Ensure the team are nurturing existing accounts while you identify cross-sell opportunities and additional avenues for revenue generation.

• Craft playbooks and commercial models.

• Drive, coach and mentor the sales performance of the partnerships team.

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive, proven partnerships experience gained from within fintech, banking or consulting sectors across the full partner lifecycle from identification through to contractual negotiations, onboarding and activation.

• Strong commercial acumen.

• The ability to identify, structure and close complex deals.

• A track record of managing large, complex B2B deals across the full customer lifecycle, and the proof points in delivering results.

• Confidence engaging C-Suite stakeholders and influencing decision-making.

• Deep knowledge of international payment flows and/or foreign exchange markets.

• Expertise in guiding clients through API integrations.

• A passion for cross functional collaboration.

• An appetite for driving new product development and amplifying customer support services.

• Hunger to grow with a business that's scaling rapidly across the APAC region

This role requires someone that thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business and can demonstrate a commercial and customer mindset.

Apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Mechanical Engineer – Aerospace (Sponsored Relocation to Adelaide)

15 years ago, if you wanted to build advanced aircraft in Australia, your best bet was booking a one-way ticket overseas or settle for paper engineering. 

Science then, Australia’s aerospace scene has evolved. We’ve moved from maintaining aircraft to designing and building them. From licensing offshore IP to owning the innovations ourselves.

Today, sovereign capability is no longer a pipe dream - it's a national strategy.

And engineers? You’re finally at the center of it.

We’re now entering an era where mechanical systems engineering is a mission-critical craft - designing the muscle, motion, and mechanics that enable high-agility flight and autonomous operations.

This role is for someone who:

• Has a strong grasp of first-principles design and mechanical systems thinking

• Wants to see their designs built - not sit in CAD purgatory

• Thrives in fast-moving, test-driven, zero-fluff engineering teams

• Is excited by prototyping, validation, and iteration - on the clock, not in theory

You’ll get to:

• Own mechanical subsystems across the design–build–test cycle

• Collaborate with avionics, flight software, and structures engineers

• Lead design validation using FEA and test rigs

• Help take a platform from concept to flight

• Work with ex-defence, ex-startup, and aerospace veterans building sovereign IP

If you've spent your time designing FSAE cars or leading student teams to actually ship things, you'll feel right at home.

You’ll need:

• A Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering degree

• 2–5 years experience designing real-world hardware (UAVs, vehicles, aircraft)

• Fluency in CAD (SolidWorks, Creo, etc.) and FEA tools

• Australian citizenship (NV1 clearance or eligibility preferred)

What’s in it for you?

Permanent role, competitive salary + ESOP, and a front-row seat to one of Australia’s most exciting aerospace programs. No overseas move required, just interstate. 

Keen to chat? Hit apply or reach out directly to Thaís Amorim at thais@theonset.com.au.

Not so long ago, in a startup not so far away… a new signal was detected.

In a world where robots were once locked into executing pre-scripted commands - stuck on rails, reacting instead of thinking -  a shift began.

The robotics evolution is no longer coming. It's already here.

Globally, the robotics market is set to surpass $250 billion by 2030, driven by breakthroughs in AI, edge computing, and autonomy. In Australia alone, robotics is reshaping industries from agriculture and mining to space and defence, with government and VC investment tripling over the past 5 years.

But none of it matters without software.

That’s where you come in.

This rebel team has started building the software layer that enables robots to learn, adapt, and make decisions in the unknown. Their mission is to develop the brain that fuses perception, control, and autonomy - unlocking the next generation of machine intelligence.

They’ve built the hardware. Now they’re building life into it.

Picture R2-D2 jacking into the Death Star’s mainframe to shut down the trash compactor.

We’re doing that. Just with more C++ and less C-3PO.

Your Role in the Rebellion:

We’re hiring a Robotics Software Engineer to lead the charge in building modular autonomy systems for robots working in high-stakes environments - where GPS might fail, maps don’t exist, and latency is not an option.

You’ll:

• Design and implement ROS/ROS2-based systems from the ground up.

• Build software that enables autonomous navigation, perception, and control.
  Work closely with mechanical, AI and firmware engineers to bring systems into the real world.

• Test your work where it matters most — outside the lab, in field deployments.

What You’ll Bring:

• Proficiency in C++, Python, and ROS/ROS2.
• Experience across motion planning, SLAM, sensor fusion, control systems.

• Comfort working close to the hardware - bridging the gap between code and carbon fibre.

• Bonus if you've worked on real-world robotics deployments or multi-agent systems.
  

This isn’t a "robot arm on an assembly line" kind of role. This is robots making real-time decisions in real-world chaos - navigating, reacting, collaborating.

They won't just follow commands.

They’ll lead the way.

Will you answer the call?

Thaís Amorim | thais@theonset.com.au

Senior Platform Engineer
Sydney, Hybrid 2 days WFH

Build tools that actually matter. Tired of spinning up pipelines and patching infra for a product you don’t care about?

Sick of building tooling that barely gets used, or begging teams to follow best practices?

Let’s change that.

You’ll help build internal platforms that support AI, sensor fusion, and autonomous systems used by defence, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure teams across the world.

The kind of software that saves lives. Literally.

This isn’t a generic DevOps gig. You’ll be embedded in a high-trust Platforms team focused on enablement, automating the painful stuff, building scalable workflows, and helping engineers ship
faster and safer, including into airgapped environments.

You won’t be stuck chasing incidents or firefighting prod. You’ll be building systems that other teams rely on, and improving developer experience in a way that has real-world consequences.

You’ll get your hands dirty with:

• Terraform and infra-as-code
• CI/CD across highly secure environments
• Containerisation and orchestration
• Network-level complexity you won’t see in most startups

You’ll have input into tooling choices and engineering direction, while being supported by experienced Principal Engineers who’ve built world-class platforms before. If you’re curious, humble, and eager to grow, this is the team you want around you.

The bar is high, the mission is real, and the problems are unlike anything else in the country.

They’re well funded ($250m raised last year), scaling fast, and solving problems that can’t be Googled.

This isn’t about optimising ad impressions or checkout flows.

It’s about building systems that matter, in a place where your work is trusted, valued, and seen.

Curious? Let’s have a chat. No CV needed for now. 

📧 Julien@theonset.com.au | 📞 0406 158 832

Head of Marketing - Insurtech - 12 mth FTC

Lead the marketing function for a high-growth SaaS company during a pivotal phase of growth.

We’re seeking an experienced, hands-on marketing leader to join an established software business. Hitting the ground running and making an impact over the 12 month engagement, this is a rare opportunity to drive strategic marketing programs, accelerate customer engagement, and contribute directly to growth outcome.

This B2B SaaS business powers critical digital infrastructure for insurers and underwriting agencies across Australia and APAC. Their platform enables automation, efficiency, and innovation. With big plans for expansion, they’re looking for someone to carry the momentum forward and ensure marketing stays tightly aligned to commercial priorities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive full funnel marketing initiatives - everything from brand awareness to highly targeted demand generation and conversion

• Oversee final implementation and cross-team adoption of a new CRM system

• Deliver measurable marketing results

• Keep abreast of competitor activities and remain ahead of the pack

• Support regional expansion with tailored go-to-market planning and execution

• Work closely with agency partners and internal stakeholders to maintain a strong brand presence

• Own the full marketing mix—from strategy through to execution and optimisation

• Ability to communicate a value proposition through each step of the customer journey.

You’ll need:

• Proven experience delivering complex marketing programs in a B2B tech or SaaS environment

• Ability to balance long-term vision with BAU execution

• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, agencies and commercial teams

• A solid grasp of the full marketing funnel—particularly in customer activation, engagement, and retention

• Outstanding written communication skills and the ability to create compelling, audience-first content

• A curious, data driven mindset

• A thirst for making an immediate impact

• Prior marketing expertise in Insurtech is highly desirable  

If you're contemplating a move or on the hunt for a challenging role and want to make an immediate impact in a fast growth business, I'd love to hear from you. 

Call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043 or apply online.