Product Engineering Lead - Heartbeat Australia

About the role

Heartbeat AI builds a virtual power plant that controls solar, batteries, heat pumps, air conditioning and EV charging as one integrated system, directly connected to the electricity market. As Product Engineering Lead Australia, you will work with the App and Energy Management System for the Australian market and support its localization, shaping the technical foundation of how Heartbeat AI works for Australian households. You will be one of the first engineering members of the Australian Product and Tech Team and the engineering lead on the ground.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia in close alignment with the engineering teams in Germany, and be accountable for quality and delivery
• Set the technical bar for the team and tackle the hardest problems yourself
• Make the energy management system work for Australian tariffs and market structure
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions
• Act as the link between Australian teams, the German engineering teams and partners, communicating technical decisions and their business impact
• Shape how the team works, who it hires and how it grows engineers
• Take part in hiring and mentor new engineers
• Build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, helping drive a shift to agentic engineering

Required profile

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience in a fast-paced, scalable environment
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or technical teams; formal line management is a plus
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud, and experience designing APIs and integrations
• Experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems
• Strong written and spoken English, including explaining technical choices in business terms
• Experience enabling AI-assisted workflows in engineering
• Flexibility to cover regular overlap with German working hours, with potential meetings at unusual times
• Based in Sydney

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Cloud Run, Vercel, Terraform
• TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js (web), Flutter (mobile)
• Eclipse Hono, MQTT, Mender
• PostgreSQL, BigQuery, SQLMesh, Looker
• Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Cursor, GitHub Actions, Linear, Notion

What we offer

• Part of an international, dynamic team with direct contact with core decision-makers
• Direct impact on the energy transition and climate
• Best chances of entering full-time in a European scaleup
• Hybrid approach with days in the Sydney office