Job Description

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Tech Lead | Sydney | $170k–$180k + Super

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Join a high-performing product engineering team building one of Australia's largest consumer digital platforms.

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This is a hands-on Tech Lead role where you'll spend around half your time writing and reviewing production code, with the remainder focused on leading sprint delivery, mentoring engineers and driving technical outcomes.

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You'll work closely with Principal-level engineers and senior delivery stakeholders to shape architecture, solve complex technical problems, remove delivery blockers and raise engineering standards across the team.

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You'll be trusted to take ownership, make pragmatic technical decisions and help your team deliver high-quality software at pace.

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Hybrid working: 3 days per week in the Sydney office.

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The wider environment also includes some PHP and CMS-based applications, so previous exposure to these technologies would be advantageous but isn't essential.

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The engineering team is also investing heavily in AI, with future projects expected to incorporate AI-assisted development and intelligent product capabilities.

What You'll Don

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- Lead sprint delivery, estimation and technical planning, keeping work on track and removing blockers.
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- Design scalable, maintainable solutions across frontend and backend systems.




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- Diagnose complex API, database and application performance issues.
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- Stay hands-on writing production code, reviewing pull requests and technically unblocking engineers.
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- Improve application performance, team velocity and engineering standards.
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- Partner with Product, QA and Delivery to manage priorities, technical risk and stakeholder expectations.
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What You'll Needn n
- 8+ years' commercial software engineering experience, with solid TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js experience.
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- Previous experience leading an engineering squad while remaining hands-on.
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- Strong backend fundamentals, including APIs, GraphQL, SQL/databases and data-access patterns.
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- Experience diagnosing and improving backend, database and application performance.
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- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and cloud-native architecture.
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- Commercial experience with AWS, CI/CD, containerisation and observability.
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- Strong delivery leadership across estimation, planning, prioritisation and team velocity.
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- Excellent communication skills with the ability to give clear technical direction, mentor engineers and work effectively with stakeholders.
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