Engineering Lead

Your career in healthcare made personal

At Medibank we’ve recently unified our health services under one brand – Amplar Health. 

With over 1000 employees, our nurses, GPs and other amazing allied health professionals our focus is on improving healthcare experiences and championing greater access, choice, and control for people in Australia when it comes to managing their health. 

We’re looking for a passionate Engineering Lead to join our Connected Health Technology team, where you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of virtual care and digital health experiences.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role where you’ll guide a high-performing squad to design and deliver scalable, secure, and customer-focused health solutions. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to build technology that genuinely improves health outcomes.

If you’re motivated by innovation in healthcare, love solving complex problems, and thrive in a collaborative, agile environment — please keep reading!

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary squad of engineers, BAs, and delivery professionals
• Drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards for virtual care platforms
• Design and deliver scalable, distributed systems enabling connected health experiences.pdf)
• Stay hands-on — contributing directly to the codebase and solving complex technical challenges
• Champion quality engineering practices, including code reviews, testing, and system observability
• Guide architectural and implementation decisions across APIs, integrations, and cloud platforms
• Continuously improve engineering capability, mentoring and growing talent across the team

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years in software engineering, with hands-on coding expertise
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in technical leadership roles
• Strong background in system design, architecture, and scalable platforms
• Experience building modern, distributed applications and APIs.
• Deep knowledge of engineering best practices, design patterns, and agile delivery

Healthcare / virtual care focus

• Experience working in healthcare, telehealth, GP practices or digital health environments (highly regarded)
• Understanding of consumer-facing health experiences, patient journeys, or clinical workflows
• Appreciation for privacy, security, and regulatory considerations in healthcare systems

Technology capability

• Cloud and cloud-native architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Our platforms are predominantly built on Node serverless stacks, utilizing ReactJS (Using NextJS web framwork) for front ends.
• All deployed on AWS
• Microservices, containerisation, and modern engineering practices
• DevOps, CI/CD, and event-driven architectures

What makes you stand out

• You’re passionate about using technology to improve health outcomes at scale
• You balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• You thrive in solving complex, ambiguous problems
• You’re a natural mentor and collaborator, lifting those around you
• You bring a human-centred mindset, keeping customers at the heart of what you build

Learn more about Amplar Health at https://amplarhealth.com.au

Be Yourself.  Belong Here

We’re committed to a workplace where everyone feels safe, supported, and free to be themselves. By embracing diverse perspectives, we challenge the status quo and uncover better ideas. You can confidently bring your whole self—because your unique voice is what makes us stronger.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ communities, people with disability, neurodivergent people, and carers.
 

Our employee networks create space for connection, advocacy and allyship. We offer flexible ways of working to support inclusion, accessibility and wellbeing.
 

If you need adjustments or alternative formats at any stage of the recruitment or employment journey, we’re here to help.  You can let us know directly in the application form, or if you’d prefer to discuss before applying, please reach out to us careers@medibank.com.au or (03) 8622 5666. Learn more about our commitments and employee stories at https://careers.medibank.com.au/diversity-inclusion/(please copy and paste the URL onto your browser)

Amplar Health strongly encourages employees to be immunised against serious diseases. Dependent on your role, you may be asked to declare your vaccination status and/or provide evidence. 

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