Job Description

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

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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 environment. This is not a hands-off management role. We're looking for someone who is still close to the technology — ideally a solid 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.

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You'll be responsible for:

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- Leading and mentoring a team of approximately 4–6 engineers
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- Remaining hands-on with engineering, architecture and technical problem solving
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- Providing technical direction across Golang and AWS-based platforms
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- Coaching Senior Engineers and Technical Leads
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- Driving engineering excellence across observability, resilience, testing and shared tooling
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- Contributing to architecture and solution design
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- Improving engineering standards and development practices
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- Working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams
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- Helping remove technical and organisational blockers
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- Supporting recruitment, onboarding and development of engineers
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- Building a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture
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What we're looking for is strong technical credibility.
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Ideally you'll bring:

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- Strong commercial Golang engineering experience
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- Strong experience building solutions on AWS
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- Experience with event-driven, distributed and/or serverless architectures
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- A strong software engineering and architecture background
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- Experience leading, mentoring or coaching engineers
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- The ability to contribute technically rather than purely managing delivery
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- Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, testing, observability and resilience
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- Strong stakeholder and communication skills
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- Experience working in Agile engineering environments
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📌 Hands-On Engineering Manager / Technical Lead - Golang / AWS (New South Wales)
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📍 New South Wales