Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged to recruit a Tech Lead for a fast-growing Australian technology company operating at the intersection of fintech and payments
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over technical direction, product decisions and engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on.
Role Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney CBD | Hybrid Working (2 days in office)
As a senior member of the engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping architecture, reviewing code, mentoring engineers and delivering high-quality software across a modern technology stack.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll spend approximately 50% of your time building software and 50% of your time driving engineering excellence through collaboration, design reviews and technical decision-making.
Working closely with founders, product and engineering teams, you'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while helping scale a platform used by leading retail and consumer brands.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver production-grade features across the stack, with a strong focus on backend development
- Lead code reviews and establish best practices across the engineering function
- Contribute to architecture and system design discussions
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions
- Drive adoption of modern AI-assisted development practices and tooling
- Mentor junior engineers and help elevate technical standards
- Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and optimisation
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer or Technical Lead
- Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally within Python-based environments
- Excellent Computer Science fundamentals including software design, algorithms and data structures
- Experience designing and building scalable production systems
- Strong code review and technical leadership capability
- Comfortable influencing technical direction and challenging ideas constructively
- Experience working in high-performing engineering environments
- Passion for leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity and quality
Nice to Have
- Experience with Python, Flask, FastAPI, React, React Native or TypeScript
- Experience with cloud-native or serverless architectures
- Strong SQL and database optimisation skills
- Exposure to e-commerce, payments or transactional platforms
- Experience working within recognised technology, product or data-driven organisations
Additional Details & Benefits
- High-impact role within a growing technology business
- Opportunity to influence both technical and product strategy
- Potential equity participation
- Hybrid and flexible working environment
- Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders
- Up-to-date engineering culture with strong adoption of AI development tools
- Cooperative, high-performing team environment
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📌 Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead (New South Wales)
🏢 Talent
📍 New South Wales
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