Platform Engineering Manager

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support more than two million members, with around $100 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

The Platform Engineering Manager will oversee and lead the team responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising Rest’s API and Digital platforms, ensuring APIs and digital capabilities meet business objectives, security standards, and scalability requirements. The Platform Engineering Manager plays a crucial role in providing automated capabilities to streamline development and operation of APIs by implementing tools and processes that facilitate API creation, testing, documentation, monitoring, scaling, reliability, and performance.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities are a list of the most important activities that the position performs, and typically they take up most of the position’s time.

• Develop, implement, document, and execute our strategic vision and set technical direction of our API platform. Set development standards, best practices and guidelines for API development, performance, and operations, and govern their adoption.
• Collaborate closely with solution architects, technical product owners, and a SCRUM master to define scalable, reliable, and efficient APIs that meet business needs.
• Manage and lead a team of engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, goals and performance review.
• Work closely with product managers and Product Engineering Manager to ensure APIs standards and ways of working are integrated seamlessly into their products and services.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, testing practices, and documentation guidelines to ensure APIs are robust, well-tested, and well-documented to minimise the risk of bugs and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Cloud-specific certifications are highly valuable (AWS Solution Architect, Develop, SysOps, etc.).

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated experience of technical people leadership, coaching, goal setting, making sound decisions and delivering outcomes on technical projects
• In-depth understanding of API design principles, RESTful architecture, OpenAPI specs and API development technologies
• Experience with API gateway and management tools (AWS API Gateway, etc.)

Additional Information

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 31 July 2025. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.