Senior Lead Software Developer

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Melbourne, Victoria, AUS
In-Office
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Senior Lead Software Developer leads engineering teams, drives technical excellence, delivers scalable solutions, strengthens engineering practices, and enables cloud and AI adoption, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Who Are We

Hansen Technologies is a leading global provider of software and services that enable organisations to transform customer experiences and streamline critical business processes. With a rich history of innovation and a footprint that spans over 80 countries, Hansen empowers utilities, energy, and communications companies to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Our commitment to excellence, customer focus, and collaborative culture makes Hansen a place where passionate professionals can make a meaningful impact, drive real change, and help shape the future of industries worldwide. 

 

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Hansen prides itself on celebrating diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, even extending this to how we work with our customers, partners, and suppliers. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. If you require any adjustments or accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know.

 

Why This Role Matters

 

Lead, Build, Deliver, and Inspire.

At Hansen, we enable our customers to deliver essential services through innovative and scalable software solutions. As a Senior Lead Software Developer, you will play a critical role in shaping how our engineering teams design, build, and deliver enterprise-grade platforms.

This is more than a technical leadership role—it’s a hands-on leadership position where you’ll guide teams across geographies, influence architectural decisions, and elevate engineering standards. Your leadership will directly impact delivery quality, team performance, and the evolution of our cloud and AI-enabled engineering capabilities.

Working closely with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps, you will help ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and commercially effective—powering critical industries globally.

 

What You’ll Do 

  • Lead Engineering Teams: Coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of developers across multiple locations.

  • Drive Technical Excellence: Provide hands-on leadership across design, development, and code quality practices. 

  • Deliver Scalable Solutions: Ensure robust, secure, and maintainable software solutions aligned to business needs. 

  • Strengthen Engineering Practices: Champion modern development practices including CI/CD, testing, and code standards. 

  • Enable Cloud & AI Adoption: Advance AWS cloud capabilities and promote practical use of AI-assisted development. 

  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps to deliver high-quality outcomes.

 

 

What You Bring

  • Proven experience in a Senior Developer, Technical Lead, or engineering leadership role

  • Strong hands-on development expertise in Java and enterprise application environments

  • Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop engineering teams.

  • Solid understanding of software engineering best practices (design, testing, security, maintainability). 

  • Experience with Agile delivery, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines

  • Exposure to AWS cloud technologies and modern architecture principles

  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to improve systems, processes, and team performance. 

  • Excellent communication skills and experience working across distributed, cross-functional teams.

 

 

Benefits and Perks 

Join us for a rewarding career with competitive compensation, leave entitlements, health coverage, and financial security. Enjoy work-life balance, growth, and recognition for your exceptional performance. Our team will unveil the intricacies of our benefit package during the selection process.

Skills Required

  • Proven experience in a Senior Developer, Technical Lead, or engineering leadership role.
  • Strong hands-on development expertise in Java and enterprise application environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop engineering teams.
  • Solid understanding of software engineering best practices (design, testing, security, maintainability).
  • Experience with Agile delivery, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Exposure to AWS cloud technologies and modern architecture principles.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to improve systems, processes, and team performance.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working across distributed, cross-functional teams.
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The Company
HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
1,645 Employees
Year Founded: 1971

What We Do

Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN) is a global software and services provider to the energy, water/utilities and telecommunications industries. The company currently serves more than 600 customers in over 80 countries, supported by a collaborative and diverse team that embraces the hybrid way of working. For connection and collaboration, we have more than 36 offices and development centres located around the world. Within the communications industry, 5G represents the next new frontier for our customers – that unchartered territory to create opportunities and capitalise on new business models and resulting revenue streams. In the energy sector, we are in the midst of a transition. The move to renewables and self-generated energy changes the traditional commercial model. Today, our customers are no longer in the era of supplying basic commodity services - they are in era of providing new energy services and related experiences. We help our customers traverse these challenges and opportunities and realise the next new monetisable experiences. And that is why our mission is to provide industry-specific software products and expertise that enables our customers to easily capitalise on the commercial opportunities of the evolving energy, utilities and communications markets. We make this possible by providing highly reliable, mission-critical software and specific industry expertise to help our customers more easily innovate and sell new services and market offerings, comply with changing market regulation, and power new business models in areas such as emerging sustainable energy supply, IoT, and new next-generation connected services. We aim to achieve this through long term collaboration with our customers and partners and through a global workforce of skilled professionals that embrace challenges and are committed to positive outcomes for our company, employees, customers, and the planet

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