Every order placed at Kogan.com relies on the platforms this team owns. From inventory and fulfilment through to financial operations, you'll lead the engineering teams responsible for keeping these critical systems reliable, scalable and ready for the future.
This is a technical leadership role where you'll drive engineering execution, technical strategy and people leadership across two teams responsible for our Order Management and Financial Operations platforms.
You'll coach engineers, provide technical direction, guide architectural decisions and partner with stakeholders across the business. In a fast-paced, operational environment, you'll balance strategic initiatives with day-to-day priorities, ensuring the team stays focused on the highest-impact work while keeping stakeholders informed of progress and trade-offs.
You'll drive operational excellence, improve engineering practices and ensure our platforms remain resilient, scalable and well supported.
Why Kogan.com?
- Our culture is unlike anywhere else and regardless of where you are in your career journey, we empower you to do your best work and have a big impact. Check us out https://devblog.kogan.com/ & https://goodteams.app/engineering/kogan.com
- Work with an incredible team to solve important challenges, helping to drive Australia and New Zealand’s eCommerce future.
- Your role has a lot of ownership, autonomy and little red tape. You’ll be empowered to achieve positive outcomes and your work will have a real impact.
- You’ll be at the forefront of the eCommerce industry and be part of a company that are the Pioneers of eCommerce in Australia.
- Be an Intrepreneur, playing a hands on role in shaping our strategy at our HQ.
- Learning budget of $1000.
- A range of employee benefits such as; complimentary Kogan First Membership, team exclusive discounts, Health & Wellness program, Learning & Development and Lunch & Learns, Hackathons, Team member referral program, Company and team events and celebrations, community engagement (volunteering) and extensive career development opportunities plus loads more!
What you'll own:
- Lead, coach and grow two engineering teams, including Tech Leads and senior engineers.
- Own delivery across SAP Business One and PSI, maintaining clear priorities, healthy backlogs and predictable roadmaps.
- Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Warehouse and Product to translate business needs into technical outcomes.
- Drive operational excellence through effective incident management and a pragmatic balance between delivery, support and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture, coaching engineers and promoting engineering best practices.
- Improve documentation, engineering standards and knowledge sharing across teams.
- Continuously improve delivery, system reliability and team performance.
What you'll need:
- 3+ years' experience leading software engineering teams, ideally managing six or more engineers.
- Strong delivery and stakeholder management skills in a fast-paced commercial environment.
- The technical depth to earn engineers' trust and make informed trade-offs across ERP, integrations and operational systems.
- Experience with SAP Business One or a similar ERP or enterprise platform is highly regarded.
- A track record of building high-performing teams, developing people and improving engineering delivery.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to remain calm, decisive and customer-focused during incidents.
Skills Required
- 3+ years' experience leading software engineering teams
- Experience managing six or more engineers (ideally)
- Strong delivery and stakeholder management skills in a fast-paced commercial environment
- Technical depth to make informed trade-offs across ERP, integrations and operational systems
- Experience with SAP Business One or a similar ERP/enterprise platform
- Track record of building high-performing teams, developing people and improving engineering delivery
- Excellent communication skills and ability to remain calm, decisive and customer-focused during incidents
What We Do
We’re Kogan.com - pioneers of Australian e-commerce. We were born in a south-eastern suburb Melbourne garage in 2006 from a young entrepreneur's idea to revolutionise the supply-chain to make the latest products more affordable. Now, we’re the largest Australian pure-play online retail website with hundreds of thousands of visitors each day and a customer base of millions of Aussie and New Zealand shoppers. Our success is built off technology and digital efficiency to make the most in-demand products and services more affordable and accessible for all. We love being pushed outside our comfort zone and being challenged to continuously deliver the best value to our customers and that sets us apart from the rest
