About Us
At Aussie Broadband, things are done a little bit differently. Our goal is to be the telco people love – customers, team members, shareholders and all stakeholders. We do this by living and breathing our values in everything we do, that's the Aussie way. As a B Corp Certified company, we hold ourselves to the highest standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We're proud to have been named one of Australia's Top Employers by HRD magazine.
Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: ABB), the Aussie Broadband Group collectively supplies more than 1 million telecommunications services, operates two Tier 1 voice providers in Australia and owns fibre infrastructure.
Our culture is built on five values that guide everything we do:
Don't be ordinary, be awesome | Think BIG | No bullsh*t | Be good to people | Have fun
At Aussie Broadband (ABB), our purpose is to change the game. As Australia's favourite challenger telco, we're building technology that makes a real difference for our customers, our people and our business.
We're embarking on a significant replatforming journey, modernising our technology landscape and moving customers onto a new platform that improves performance, security, scalability and supportability, while simplifying business processes. This is a unique opportunity to play a key leadership role in shaping the future of ABB's technology ecosystem.
As our Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a high-performing team of Software Engineers, combining strong technical leadership with people leadership to deliver scalable, secure and customer-focused solutions. You'll build team capability, drive engineering excellence and help deliver strategic outcomes that support ABB's continued growth.
- Providing technical leadership and direction, ensuring solutions align with business objectives, architecture standards, security requirements and engineering best practices.
- Building a high-performing, accountable and collaborative engineering culture that encourages innovation, continuous improvement and team engagement.
- Leading the design, development and delivery of scalable solutions across customer-facing applications, digital services and internal platforms.
- Driving engineering excellence through effective development practices including code reviews, testing, quality assurance and CI/CD.
- Identifying automation and optimisation opportunities that improve efficiency and enable teams to focus on delivering greater value.
- Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers through regular feedback, career development and performance conversations.
- Partnering with stakeholders across Technology and the broader business to shape solutions and drive successful delivery outcomes.
- Leading the resolution of complex technical, scalability, performance and architectural challenges.
- Supporting and contributing to ABB's broader replatforming initiatives and technology transformation programs.
We’re looking for a leader who combines technical excellence with a strong focus on delivery and people. You’ll bring
- Experience delivering commercial software solutions using modern frameworks and contemporary software engineering practices.
- Proven success leading and developing Software Engineers within a high-performing team environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to align technical solutions with business outcomes.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability with experience resolving complex technical challenges.
- Strong understanding of modern web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and responsive application development principles.
- Expertise in database design, schema architecture, performance tuning and query optimisation.
- Experience designing, building and integrating APIs and distributed services.
- A track record of delivering scalable, secure and maintainable software solutions in complex environments.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with third-party platforms and external services.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices and automated deployment frameworks.
- Experience supporting or leading platform modernisation, transformation or replatforming initiatives.
- Experience leading and working with distributed or remote teams.
Why Join Us
At Aussie Broadband, we celebrate difference and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can bring their whole self to work. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, we support and celebrate diversity every day it's just one of the ways we live our value of "Be good to people."
We also give back to the communities we serve through our Pledge 1% commitment, community sponsorship programs, and paid community service leave for all staff.
The Good Stuff
- 26 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers (in addition to any government-paid leave)
- Discounted internet up to the value of $109 per month
- Fitness Passport for access to multiple gyms and pools across Australia
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounts with Specsavers, HCF, and many more
- Monthly rewards and recognition
- Internal training and development resources to support your career growth
- Yearly Aussie merch allowance
Ready to Join?
Hit the apply button to submit your application and our team will be in touch!
Even if you feel you don’t meet all the requirements, we’d still love to hear your story. We like to think outside the box with the people we hire.
For questions, reach out to careers@team.aussiebroadband.com.au. Just note that all applications must be submitted via the job link.
