About Us
At Displayr, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to find and share the stories in their data. We do this by creating software that makes it easy to do all aspects of data analysis and reporting, from simple tables through to machine learning, PowerPoint automation to online dashboards.
Our Engineering team is at the heart of this mission, and we need YOU.
As a bootstrapped company with no corporate debt or external advisors, we’ve grown steadily over seven years from 11 to over 100 team members, serving 1,700+ clients, including industry leaders like Nielsen, Meta, and Amazon. We’ve earned recognition as a for two years in a row and ranked 1st in ANZ’s .
We are the proud winners of Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards for flexible working in both 2023 and 2024.
With our head office in Sydney and teams across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK, we’re shaping the future of data storytelling—join us as we make data more accessible, insightful, and actionable.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Quality Engineering Team Lead to drive automation, improve engineering quality, and lead a team of talented engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role, where you’ll contribute to automation frameworks and infrastructure while setting technical direction and maintaining the highest quality standards. Since your team consists of Software Engineers, strong technical ability is essential—you need to be comfortable managing engineers, solving complex technical problems, and writing code yourself.
Responsibilities:
- Lead & mentor a high-performing team of Quality Engineers.
- Be a subject matter expert in test automation, quality engineering, and release processes.
- Foster innovation and continuous learning within your team.
- Drive an automation-first culture, reducing manual testing efforts.
- Identify & remove blockers, ensuring smooth releases and high developer velocity.
- Define and track key quality engineering metrics (test coverage, automation effectiveness, defect rates, and release stability).
- Continuously improve test infrastructure, automation tools, and release workflows.
About You
- Experience leading and managing a team of at least four engineers.
- Hands-on experience coding 10-20% of the time, improving automation frameworks and quality pipelines.
- Skilled in hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction while staying hands-on.
- Deep experience with test automation strategies and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, performance, security, and reliability testing.
- Ability to define scalable test strategies and optimize testing infrastructure.
- Comfortable testing legacy systems while driving modernization efforts.
- Strong communication skills, able to explain technical decisions clearly.
- Naturally curious, innovative, and results-driven.
Our Tech Stack
- Front-end: TypeScript/JavaScript/React.
- Back-end: C#, SQL.
- Supporting systems: C#, Python, R, Rust, Node.js.
- Platforms: Azure, Kubernetes.
Why Displayr?
At Displayr, you’re more than just a cog in a machine—you’re a key player driving meaningful change. Your decisions will have tangible impacts, and you’ll tackle big, thorny problems that challenge and showcase your exceptional technical skills.
Here’s why you’ll thrive with us:
- Innovative and evidence-driven—Ideas are driven by data, not hierarchy.
- High-trust, high-autonomy culture—Enjoy the freedom to do your best work with flexibility and support.
- Global reach—As part of an international company with offices in Sydney, Chicago, and London, your contributions will have a worldwide impact.
- Stable and growing—We’re a bootstrapped, growing company with a strong foundation.
We also offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and professional growth:
- Competitive salary that recognizes your expertise and contributions.
- Share options—be part of our success as we grow rapidly in our early stages.
- 14 weeks of paid parental leave, supporting you during life’s important moments.
- A relaxed, high-trust culture that values high performance and empowers you to do your best work.
- Flexible working hours to help you balance life and work.
- $2,000 learning allowance to invest in your professional growth.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, providing support when you need it.
- A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and our Pyrmont office, complete with perks like a pool and a tennis court.
We believe that a workplace that welcomes a variety of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds is important and will only push us to be better. We never discriminate on the basis of gender, age, ethnic background, disability status, religion, or sexual orientation.
