Job Description

Role

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Engineering Team Lead

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Overview

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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.

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

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Responsibilities

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As an Engineering Team Lead, you will:

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

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To excel in this role, you should have:

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- Proven experience as an Engineering Team Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, or hands‐on Engineering Manager.
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- Solid expertise in:n n
- React.js
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- Next.js
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- Server‐Side Rendering
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- Core Web Vitals
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- Web performance and scalability
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- High‐traffic customer‐facing platforms
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- System design and architecture
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- APIs and distributed services
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- Cloud platforms (AWS)
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- Direct experience in people leadership and team development.
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- A track record of partnering with Product and Design teams.
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Additional experience with GraphQL, micro‐frontends, modern application security, and AI coding tools is highly desirable.

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We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

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

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- Opportunity to lead and shape a high‐scale web platform.
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- Work on meaningful technical challenges in performance, architecture, and scalability.
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- Hybrid working environment based in Sydney.
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- Collaborative and supportive team culture.
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- Skilled growth through leadership and technical challenges.
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If you are a technically strong engineering leader who enjoys improving systems, teams, and decision‐making, we would love to hear from you.

📌 Team Lead - Core Web (New South Wales)
🏢 Bespoke Careers
📍 New South Wales