At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a hybrid team of engineers and AI agents to ship innovative products.
- Company: Dynamic Sydney startup revolutionising AI in engineering.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and direct influence on product direction.
- Other info: Collaborative global team with opportunities for growth and innovation.
- Why this job: Be hands-on with cutting-edge AI tech and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: 8-15 years in software engineering with startup experience and strong coding skills.
A hands-on player-coach role: lead a human + AI-agent engineering team, stay in the code, ship fabulous product. Sydney-based, global team, real equity.
WHO WE ARE
Enterprise AI is a Sydney startup helping organisations put AI to work — properly. We're a small, sharp team across Sydney, Manila and New York, and we build the way we tell our clients to: AI agents do a large share of the engineering work, and humans direct, review and ship.
THE ROLE
The role You'll own how we build — as a player-coach, not a people-manager-only. You'll code with AI every week, know our architecture cold, and stay close enough to the codebase to review anyone's work. And you'll run a hybrid team of engineers and AI agents, judged on one thing: fabulous product, out the door, fast.
YOU WILL
- Stay hands-on — build with AI coding agents yourself, know the architecture and the code, and never lose touch with how the product actually works
- Talk with your team daily — across Sydney, Manila and New York — to understand what everyone is building, unblock them, and connect the pieces
- Continuously improve our engineering processes — code quality, deployments, product functionality, agent orchestration, code review, evals, CI/CD, and quality gates that let a small team ship like a big one
- Lead, motivate and grow the team — coaching, celebrating, and raising the bar
- Set technical direction and architecture for our enterprise AI products
- Ship four times a week — and make shipping feel great for the team
- Work directly with the founder on product strategy and key client engagements
YOU
- 8–15 years in software engineering, with real startup experience — you have shipped under constraints and worn many hats
- Still coding, and proud of it — you review PRs, dive into the architecture, and would never lead from a slide deck
- Already working with AI agents doing substantial engineering work, such as Claude Code, Cursor or custom agent pipelines — and you have opinions about their failure modes
- You have led a team and loved the leading part — but you lead from inside the codebase, not above it
- Strong product instinct — you argue about what to build, not just how to build it
- Comfortable leading across time zones; based in Sydney and happy working mostly in-person with the Sydney team
WHAT WE OFFER
- A$220–260k base + superannuation
- Meaningful equity: 1%+, 4-year vesting — this is a partner-level role, and the package reflects it
- A team that's already AI-native — no legacy culture to fight
- Direct influence over product, company direction and how the team grows
Head of Engineering in Sydney employer: Enterprise AI Group
Enterprise AI is an exceptional employer for those looking to make a significant impact in the tech industry. Based in Sydney, we offer a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration, with a focus on hands-on engineering and direct influence over product development. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through meaningful equity opportunities and a supportive environment where your contributions are valued and celebrated.
