We’re looking for an experienced Senior Resilience Consultant to join a large and complex environment, helping strengthen resilience across critical systems and services.

The role sits across technology resilience, business continuity and IT disaster recovery. You’ll work closely with infrastructure, platform, application and security teams to understand critical services, identify dependencies and make sure appropriate recovery plans are in place.

You’ll lead Business Impact Assessments, develop and maintain Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans, and coordinate resilience and recovery testing. You’ll also work with technology teams around RTO/RPO, backup, recovery and failover.

This isn’t a purely governance-focused Business Continuity role. You don’t need to be a hands on engineer, but you will need a strong understanding of modern technology environments and be comfortable working with technical teams around infrastructure, applications and cloud services.

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Technology Resilience or IT Service Continuity, ideally gained within a large or complex organisation. Experience with resilience testing and recognised standards such as ISO 22301 would be beneficial.

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

JD - [TBC] Technical Business Analyst, Integration Delivery

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Group Product Manager – Marketplace 

Lead a high-profile Marketplace Platform Product function, shaping strategy and priorities across a complex, multi-brand digital ecosystem.

• 3–6 month Day Rate Contract Melbourne
• Lead and coach Product Managers across Marketplace, Seller Experience and Core Platform capabilities
• Own portfolio prioritisation, platform strategy and investment trade-offs across multiple businesses and stakeholders

About the Client

Our client is a large, well-established Australian consumer business with a significant digital and eCommerce footprint.

They are continuing to invest in a shared marketplace platform that supports multiple consumer brands and marketplace propositions across the broader group.The environment is complex, highly collaborative and commercially focused, with Product, Technology, Design and business teams working together across a large-scale digital ecosystem.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Group Product Manager to step into a 3–6 month interim leadership role across a Marketplace Platform Product team.

You will provide leadership across a number of interconnected Product areas, including:

• Seller and merchant experience
• Seller onboarding and enablement
• Core marketplace platform capabilities
• APIs and integrations
• Shared platform services
• Banner and business enablement
• Roadmap prioritisation across multiple stakeholders and business units

You will lead and support a team of Product Managers, working closely with Business Analysts, Product Designers, Engineering, Technology, Commercial and Operations stakeholders.

A key part of the role will be bringing together multiple Product roadmaps into a clear and coherent platform direction, while balancing shared capability, business-specific requirements and competing commercial priorities.

You will also be responsible for:

• Leading, coaching and supporting Product Managers
• Setting and challenging priorities across multiple Product streams
• Identifying opportunities for reuse and shared platform capability
• Managing dependencies across Product and Technology teams
• Making portfolio-level prioritisation and investment trade-offs
• Balancing foundational platform investment with shorter-term commercial opportunities
• Partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple business areas
• Providing continuity, direction and senior Product decision-making throughout the contract period

About You

You will be an experienced Group Product Manager, Head of Product, Product Lead or senior Product leader with a strong background operating across complex digital products, platforms or ecosystems.

You will ideally bring experience across some combination of:

• Marketplace or two-sided platforms
• Platform Product Management
• eCommerce or retail platforms
• Seller or merchant ecosystems
• API and integration products
• Partner ecosystems
• Multi-brand or multi-business platforms
• Complex enterprise digital products

Direct marketplace experience would be highly regarded, but it is not essential.

More important is your ability to lead across multiple Product streams, make sound prioritisation decisions and operate effectively in an environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

You will bring strong capability across:

• Product strategy and portfolio thinking
• Product leadership and coaching
• Roadmap prioritisation
• Commercial and investment decision-making
• Platform and ecosystem Product thinking
• Executive stakeholder management
• Influencing and negotiation
• Cross-functional leadership
• Technical fluency across platforms, APIs and integrations

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced Product leader who can step into an established environment quickly, provide clear direction and lead effectively through a period of transition.

For more information please contact jacquie@theonset.com.au 

Location: Remote within Australia

Salary: $130,000–$160,000 + super

Employment: Permanent, full-time

Join an established Australian technology business building secure, high-availability software used by customers nationwide.
You’ll work in a collaborative product engineering team and own meaningful features from technical design through to production. This is ideal for an engineer ready to move beyond ticket-based delivery and take responsibility for increasingly complex work.

What you’ll do

• Deliver features across Node.js services, React applications, APIs and integrations
• Own work from requirements and technical design through to testing and release
• Translate customer needs into practical technical solutions
• Contribute to testing, observability, documentation and production reliability
• Explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve delivery
• Collaborate with engineers, product stakeholders and other business teams

What we’re looking for

• Professional software engineering experience in a product environment
• Strong foundations across APIs, data, testing, debugging and production delivery
• Experience independently delivering features or project workstreams
• A backend-leaning skill set with the ability to contribute across the stack
• Clear communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote team
• A practical understanding of code quality, security and maintainability

Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS, SaaS platforms or event-driven systems will be beneficial but isn’t essential.

Applicants must be based in Australia and have full Australian working rights. A background check may be required.

Staff Engineer – 12 Month Day Rate Contract

Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid | 12-month day rate contract

An opportunity for an experienced Staff/Principal-level Engineer to play a key technical role in a major greenfield and transformation program within one of Australia’s most recognised consumer brands.

This isn't a maintenance role. You'll help shape the next generation of a high-scale digital platform, solving complex distributed systems problems and influencing architecture, engineering standards and technology direction.

The opportunity

You'll operate as a senior hands-on individual contributor, working alongside experienced engineers and engineering leadership to:

• Design and evolve high-scale, event-driven and distributed systems

• Help drive the adoption of Temporal.io and modern workflow orchestration patterns

• Set engineering standards across Kotlin, Java and the JVM ecosystem

• Solve complex problems around scalability, resilience, concurrency and system reliability

• Shape cloud-native architecture across GCP, GKE/Kubernetes, Postgres and BigQuery

• Work across React and TypeScript where required, connecting modern frontend applications with JVM services

• Improve developer experience, observability and CI/CD through GitHub Actions

• Mentor senior engineers through technical leadership, pairing and high-impact code reviews

• Influence technical roadmaps while remaining close to the code

What we're looking for

You'll likely have extensive software engineering experience and be operating at Staff, Principal or senior Technical Lead level.

We're particularly interested in engineers with:

• Deep commercial experience with Java and/or Kotlin

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architecture

• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, Temporal, Cadence or similar

• Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native engineering experience

• Experience building complex, high-scale product or SaaS platforms

• Enough React/TypeScript experience to operate effectively across the stack

• A track record of influencing architecture and raising engineering standards without relying on formal authority

Direct Temporal.io experience would be highly regarded, but isn't essential if you bring strong distributed systems and workflow orchestration fundamentals.

Why consider it?

This is an opportunity to combine the scale and complexity of a major Australian brand with genuine greenfield engineering.

You'll join at a point where important architectural decisions are still being made, giving you the opportunity to influence how systems are designed, how engineering teams work and how the platform evolves.

If you're a senior engineer who still wants to be hands-on with difficult technical problems while having broader architectural influence, this is worth a conversation.

Junior / Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer

Sydney | Hybrid | IoT

$90-130k + super

The Mission

Build the software behind a new generation of connected consumer products, from early proof of concept through to global mass production.

You’ll work across embedded systems, device connectivity, user interfaces and cloud-connected features, helping turn product ideas into reliable, intuitive and commercially successful hardware.

This is an opportunity to join a highly experienced engineering team early in your career, get exposure to the full product development lifecycle and learn from engineers who have built complex products at scale.

The Challenge

This isn’t a narrow firmware role. You’ll join a multidisciplinary product squad alongside electronics, mechanical, industrial design, quality and product development specialists, contributing to software across the complete device experience.

Depending on the product, that could include:

• Developing embedded software in C and C++

• Building software for microcontrollers and connected devices

• Contributing to React Native interfaces running on physical products

• Integrating device, mobile and cloud components

• Contributing to reusable software architectures across multiple product families

• Reading schematics and debugging across hardware and software boundaries

• Prototyping quickly during concept development

• Helping mature code from early prototypes through to production-quality software

• Supporting manufacturing, validation and occasional factory engagement

• Collaborating with local teams, overseas engineering partners and remote software groups

The engineering lifecycle runs for roughly two to three years, taking products from an initial hypothesis through proof of concept, commercial approval, pilot builds and mass production.

The Bar

You don’t need to arrive as the finished article. We’re much more interested in strong fundamentals, evidence that you can apply them to real engineering problems and an appetite to keep learning.

What you'll need

• A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline

• Some transferable, hands-on experience through an internship, university project, postgraduate work or early commercial experience involving firmware, embedded systems, electronics or connected hardware

• Strong programming fundamentals and practical problem-solving ability

• Some experience working with C and/or C++, whether commercially, academically or through personal projects

• A genuine interest in understanding how software and hardware interact

• The ability to move between different problems and technical areas as a product evolves

• An eagerness to learn, ask questions and get comfortable with unfamiliar technology

• Enough autonomy to investigate problems and make progress without needing every step mapped out

• A progressive mindset – you’re interested in better ways of doing things and willing to challenge your own thinking

• Clear communication and an ability to work alongside people from different engineering disciplines

Bonus points for

None of these are prerequisites, but exposure to any of the following would be useful:

• Embedded systems, microcontrollers, firmware or IoT devices

• Electronics, including reading schematics or debugging hardware/software interactions

• React, React Native or JavaScript

• Python

• Mobile development

• Cloud platforms or connected-device architectures

• Personal engineering projects where you’ve built, programmed or connected a physical product

• Experience taking something beyond the classroom and making it actually work in the real world

We’re deliberately keeping the industry background broad. Consumer electronics experience is great, but experience from robotics, medical devices, industrial IoT, university projects, internships or other hardware-led environments can translate just as well.

The Hire

You’re likely an early-career engineer who enjoys software but wants to work closer to the hardware.

You might be coming straight from university or postgraduate study, have completed a strong internship or placement, or have spent your first few years working in software, embedded systems, electronics or another adjacent engineering environment.

You’ll probably enjoy this role if you:

• Prefer building tangible products over working exclusively on digital platforms

• Like figuring out how things work rather than staying within one narrow technical lane

• Are comfortable switching context as products and priorities evolve

• Ask good questions when you don’t know the answer

• Enjoy learning from experienced engineers while still taking ownership of your own work

• Care about the full user experience, not just your individual codebase

• Want broad technical exposure while remaining hands-on

• Are excited by the idea of seeing something you helped build eventually sitting in someone’s home

This team values raw problem-solving ability, curiosity and potential over a perfect keyword match.

The "Why me?"

You’ll join an unusually experienced software group with significant principal-level capability across embedded systems, connected devices, user interfaces and cloud technologies.

For someone early in their career, that means genuine access to engineers who have built products at scale and an environment where you can develop across multiple layers of the stack rather than being boxed into one small area.

There are also several long-term career paths available:

• Develop into a deeply hands-on embedded or software engineer

• Progress toward senior and eventually principal engineering

• Build capability across embedded, IoT, UI and cloud systems

• Move toward technical leadership, architecture or engineering management as your career develops

The "Why this?"

• Work exclusively on new product development

• See your software move from concept to globally manufactured hardware

• Learn directly from a highly experienced engineering team

• Get exposure to the complete product development lifecycle early in your career

• Work across embedded software, IoT, connected interfaces and physical systems

• Contribute to products that combine software, electronics and mechanical engineering

• Build reusable platforms rather than repeatedly starting from scratch

• Join a growing, low-turnover engineering function

• Access annual incentives and a long-term equity-style reward

• Gain occasional exposure to international manufacturing operations

This is an opportunity to build software people can physically interact with, learn from people who have done it at scale, and get the kind of technical breadth that can be difficult to find early in your career.

Still reading? Get applying and let's talk.

Senior Engineer – Practice Lead | Global Financial Services | Sydney

If you're a Principal or Lead Engineer in platform or DevOps, and you're tired of being the person holding everything together while everyone else goes home. This is worth reading.

A globally recognised financial services organisation is looking for someone to own its Telemetry and Analytics practice. That means platform and product ownership of enterprise-scale SIEM and threat intelligence platforms, a live and varied project pipeline, and a small, high-trust team that actually has its act together.

The person who held this role for the past two years told us it's the first job they've had in years where they weren't online every weekend dealing with something platform-related. The support infrastructure here is real. You're not carrying it alone.

What you'll be working on

There's a solid pipeline of technical work ahead. A credential management overhaul spanning source code, pipelines, and release infrastructure; a vendor platform migration; new platform delivery; and active POCs in flight. It's genuinely varied, and it's hands-on. You'll be designing, integrating, and developing platforms rather than babysitting them.

Day to day you'll be working across IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and scripting. Building and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins security operations at enterprise scale. You'll work closely with a small, experienced team across Australia and the US, and interface with detection engineers, analysts, and senior stakeholders globally.

What this does for your career

The brand carries weight. Two years here, owning platforms at this scale, delivering complex projects, and operating within a world-class financial services environment is a credible and visible step toward a Director or Principal Architect role. The person before you used it exactly that way.

What you'll bring

A strong DevOps, platform, or release engineering background. Solid hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Linux. Proficiency in Python or Shell. You've worked in an enterprise environment, financial services, insurance, banking, or similar scale and complexity. And you're fluent in governance and compliance without being slowed down by it.

You don't need a security specialism. If you've operated SIEM, log pipelines, or observability platforms from a platform engineering angle, that experience is relevant. You will grow your domain knowledge with this role.

Hit apply or send me a message and I'll get you the full brief.

Julien@theonset.com.au - 0406 158 832

Principal Product Manager | Leading Global B2B SaaS Platform

Help define the future of a newly launched platform that could reshape how thousands of professional services firms run their businesses.

Why this role?

• Shape the long-term strategy, commercial model, and future direction of a newly launched global product ecosystem

• Own complex portfolio-level decisions spanning product strategy, monetisation, go-to-market, and customer growth.

• Partner directly with senior Product leadership to solve some of the biggest strategic questions facing the business over the next 3-5 years.

• Market-leading salary + LTI | Work from anywhere in Australia.

About the Business

This global SaaS business has spent the last few years bringing together multiple products into a single platform that supports thousands of professional services firms globally.

The platform is now established. The focus has shifted to its long-term direction, deciding which customer problems it should solve, where the business should invest, and how the broader ecosystem evolves over the next three to five years.

This role will play a key part in shaping those decisions.

About the Role

This newly created Principal Product Manager role has been established to help define the future direction of one of the company's most strategically important product ecosystems.

Reporting into senior Product leadership, you'll define the long-term strategy, vision, and commercial direction for a platform used by thousands of businesses globally.

The product already exists. The challenge now is determining how it evolves, where the business should invest, and how the wider portfolio comes together around a clear customer and commercial strategy.

You'll help define:

• Which customer problems and capabilities the platform should own.

• Where the business should invest, consolidate, or retire products.

• What should be built internally, acquired, or delivered through strategic partnerships.

• How the ecosystem should be positioned, packaged, and monetised.

• How AI and automation should shape the future customer experience.

• How the platform supports growth across Australia, the UK, and North America.

• How multiple products and teams come together to create a seamless customer experience.

You'll operate across the portfolio, bringing together customer insight, market understanding, commercial thinking, and product strategy to influence long-term investment decisions.

While you'll work closely with delivery teams, your primary focus will be helping the business decide where to play, what to prioritise, and why.

About You

We're looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving large, complex product challenges.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience defining strategy for platform, ecosystem, marketplace, or SaaS products.

• Strong portfolio thinking with the ability to connect multiple products around a common vision.

• Commercial acumen across pricing, packaging, monetisation, investment, or growth strategy.

• Experience making build, buy, or partner decisions.

• The ability to connect customer problems, business objectives, and product investment decisions.

• A track record of turning complex, ambiguous opportunities into clear, executable product strategies.

• Strong product discovery, customer research, and market validation capabilities.

• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and align multiple teams around a shared direction.

Experience within accounting software, fintech, workflow software, professional services technology, or B2B SaaS environments will be highly regarded but is not essential.

What's on Offer

• The opportunity to define the future direction of a newly launched global platform.

• High-impact strategic role with direct influence on product investment and growth decisions.

• Complex portfolio-level product challenges rarely seen in the Australian market.

• Significant exposure to executive Product leadership.

• Flexible Australian location.

• A strong Product culture with a genuine focus on customer outcomes and long-term thinking.

• The opportunity to shape a platform used by thousands of businesses globally.

For more information, please contact Jacquie Nolan at jacquie@theonset.com.au.

Head of Product | Unsecured SME Lending

We're partnering with a leading Australian non-bank lender to appoint its first Head of Product. This is a pivotal executive hire that will shape the future of an established unsecured SME lending portfolio, bringing greater strategic thinking, commercial discipline and long-term product leadership to the business.

This is not a traditional digital product leadership role.

We're looking for someone who has spent their career building and evolving lending products; someone who understands the commercial mechanics of unsecured lending and is equally comfortable discussing pricing, portfolio performance, credit risk and customer outcomes.

If you've owned products across working capital, unsecured business lending, revolving credit, business lines of credit, merchant cash advance or cashflow lending, this is an opportunity to influence far more than a roadmap.

You'll work directly with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to determine where the business invests, how the lending portfolio evolves, where new growth opportunities exist, and how Product becomes a genuine driver of commercial performance.

What you'll be responsible for
This is a genuine portfolio leadership role where you'll become the custodian of the business's lending products.

You'll lead decisions around:

• Long-term product strategy and portfolio direction
• Investment priorities across the lending portfolio
• New lending products, customer propositions and market opportunities
• Product pricing, commercial performance and portfolio optimisation
• Balancing customer outcomes with credit quality, lending economics and profitability
• Product lifecycle decisions, including where to invest, optimise, simplify or retire products
• Executive alignment across Product, Credit, Risk, Technology, Operations and Commercial teams
• Building stronger product capability, governance and strategic decision-making across the organisation

We're keen to speak with people who have experience in

• Unsecured SME lending
• Working capital finance
• Merchant cash advance
• Revolving credit facilities and business lines of credit
• Cashflow lending
• Credit product design and portfolio management
• Lending economics, pricing and profitability
• Risk-based product development
• Product leadership within regulated lending environments

You'll most likely have built your career within a specialist lender, non-bank lender or fintech where lending products sit at the core of the business. A strong analytical background, whether through mathematics, economics, actuarial studies, statistics, engineering or quantitative finance will be highly regarded.

For more information please contact | jacquie@theonset.com.au