Role

Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Are you a technically strong leader with a passion for improving systems, teams, and decision‑making? We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of 4-5 engineers in delivering high‑traffic, customer‑facing web experiences at scale. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a critical web platform, shape its technical direction, and drive meaningful improvements in performance, architecture, and engineering effectiveness.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands‑on leadership position, balancing technical involvement with team development and strategic decision‑making.

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will:

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4-5 engineers.
- Own the technical direction of a high‑traffic web platform.
- Improve Core Web Vitals, SEO, latency, and overall web performance.
- Drive better engineering velocity and remove technical blockers.
- Lead architecture and system design discussions.
- Enhance technical standards, code quality, and engineering practices.
- Manage technical debt and cross‑team dependencies.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams.
- Help the team make pragmatic technical trade‑offs.
- Communicate technical risks, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

To excel in this role, you should have:

- Proven experience as an Engineering Team Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, or hands‑on Engineering Manager.
- Strong expertise in:
- React.js
- Next.js




- Server‑Side Rendering
- Core Web Vitals
- Web performance and scalability
- High‑traffic customer‑facing platforms
- System design and architecture
- APIs and distributed services
- Cloud platforms (AWS)

- Direct experience in people leadership and team development.
- A track record of partnering with Product and Design teams.

Additional experience with GraphQL, micro‑frontends, up-to-date application security, and AI coding tools is highly desirable.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

- Solving complex performance or scalability challenges.
- Leading impactful technical decisions.
- Improving engineering velocity and team effectiveness.
- Developing and mentoring engineers.
- Driving adoption of new technical approaches.
- Managing disagreement and resistance constructively.
- Balancing technical quality with product and commercial priorities.
- Explaining complex engineering problems clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Delivering measurable improvements, not just technical activity.

Benefits

- Opportunity to lead and shape a high‑scale web platform.
- Work on meaningful technical challenges in performance, architecture, and scalability.
- Hybrid working environment based in Sydney.
- Collaborative and supportive team culture.
- Professional growth through leadership and technical challenges.

If you are a technically strong engineering leader who enjoys improving systems, teams, and decision‑making, we would love to hear from you.

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