We’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to join a well-established Australian digital business operating a large-scale, high-traffic technology environment.

This is a highly technical role for someone with strong commercial Golang and AWS experience who enjoys solving complex engineering problems while providing technical leadership to a small team.

You’ll work closely with and provide technical direction to a team of approximately 4–6 engineers, remaining hands-on with code, architecture and solution design while helping lift engineering standards across the team.

The Role

You’ll work across a modern Golang, AWS and event-driven/serverless environment, combining hands-on software engineering with technical leadership.

You’ll be responsible for:

- Providing technical leadership to a team of 4–6 engineers
- Remaining hands-on with Golang development
- Leading technical design, architecture and complex problem solving
- Designing and building scalable solutions across AWS
- Conducting code reviews and supporting engineers with technical challenges
- Mentoring and coaching engineers to improve technical capability
- Driving engineering excellence across testing, observability, resilience and shared tooling
- Improving engineering standards and development practices
- Contributing to architecture and solution design across cloud-native platforms
- Working closely with Product,



Engineering and Delivery teams
- Helping remove technical blockers and improve engineering velocity
- Creating a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture

What We're Looking For We’re primarily looking for strong technical credibility. You may currently be a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Senior Engineer or Staff Engineer. What matters is that you're an accomplished engineer who can provide direction to others without moving away from hands-on engineering.

Ideally, you'll bring:

- Strong commercial Golang development experience
- Strong hands-on AWS experience
- Experience with event-driven, distributed and/or serverless architectures
- Strong experience designing and building microservices
- A strong software engineering and architecture background
- Experience technically leading, mentoring or coaching engineers
- The ability to remain hands-on with code
- Robust understanding of testing, CI/CD, observability and resilience
- Experience contributing to architecture and technical design decisions
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills
- Experience working in modern Agile engineering environments

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Golang/AWS engineer ready to take greater technical ownership and lead a small engineering team while continuing to code. Please send your CV and we'll get back to you ASAP.

📌 Golang Technical Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Sustainrecruit
📍 Sydney