Hands-On Engineering Manager / Technical Lead - Golang / AWS

We’re looking for a highly technical Engineering Manager / Technical Lead to join a well-established Australian digital business with a large-scale, high-traffic technology setting. This is not a hands-off management role. We’re looking for someone who is still close to the technology — ideally a strong Golang/AWS engineer who has progressed into technical leadership, Staff Engineering or Engineering Management and still enjoys getting involved in architecture, design and code. You’ll lead and support a small team of engineers while helping shape engineering standards and contributing to the technical direction of modern, cloud-native platforms. The Role You’ll work across a modern AWS, Golang and event-driven/serverless environment, balancing hands-on engineering with technical leadership and people development.

You’ll be responsible for:
Leading and mentoring a team of approximately 4–6 engineers
Remaining hands-on with engineering, architecture and technical problem solving
Providing technical direction across Golang and AWS-based platforms
Coaching Senior Engineers and Technical Leads
Driving engineering excellence across observability, resilience, testing and shared tooling




Contributing to architecture and solution design
Improving engineering standards and development practices
Working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams
Helping remove technical and organisational blockers
Supporting recruitment, onboarding and development of engineers
Building a high-performing and cooperative engineering culture

What we're looking for is strong technical credibility.
You may currently be an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or Staff Engineer. We're more interested in your ability to lead engineers while remaining technically hands-on than your exact job title.

Ideally you'll bring:
Strong commercial Golang engineering experience
Strong experience building solutions on AWS
Experience with event-driven, distributed and/or serverless architectures
A robust software engineering and architecture background
Experience leading, mentoring or coaching engineers
The ability to contribute technically rather than purely managing delivery
Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, testing, observability and resilience
Strong stakeholder and communication skills
Experience working in Agile engineering environments
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