Job Description

Refactor Recruitment Pty Ltd – Melbourne VIC

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Melbourne | Hybrid (2 days per week in office) | $190k + super

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There are Engineering Tech Lead roles where you manage roadmaps, shuffle Jira tickets around and slowly forget how software actually works.

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This isn't one of them.

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We're working with one of Australia's most established digital product businesses to find an Engineering Team Lead to lead a talented team working across a high-value suite of B2B SaaS products.

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You'll lead a team of experienced Software Engineers, partner closely with Product and remain genuinely involved in the technology.

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That doesn't mean sitting there smashing out tickets eight hours a day.

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It does mean being comfortable reviewing PRs, getting involved in architecture, challenging technical decisions and occasionally jumping into the code when needed.

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What you'll be doing

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You'll lead a team of approximately eight engineers across two closely connected product areas, including several experienced Senior Engineers alongside mid-level, junior and offshore team members.

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You'll work closely with Product and the wider business to shape the technical direction of products used by a significant B2B customer base.

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You'll:

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- Lead, coach and develop a robust engineering team
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- Remain involved in architecture and technical decision-making
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- Review code and contribute technically when needed
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- Build and evolve scalable, reliable cloud-based products
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- Work closely with Product on priorities, trade-offs and roadmap decisions
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- Improve engineering practices across development, testing, deployment and operations
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- Help modernise and evolve existing systems without trying to rewrite everything for the fun of it
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What we're looking for:

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The big one is technical credibility.

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You'll probably already be an Engineering Manager, Team Lead or Lead Engineer, but you'll have remained close enough to engineering that you can still have a meaningful conversation about architecture without calling the architecture team.

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Ideally you'll bring:

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- Strong commercial C# / .NET Core experience
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- Experience designing and evolving software architecture
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- Strong cloud experience, ideally AWS
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- Microservices and distributed systems experience
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- Experience building scalable, high-traffic or customer-facing applications
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- Modern software engineering and CI/CD practices
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- People leadership, coaching and mentoring experience
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- Strong stakeholder and Product management skills
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- Front-end experience with Angular/TypeScript or React
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B2B SaaS experience would be excellent, but we're far more interested in your technical and leadership capability than whether you've worked in a particular industry.

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Most importantly, you're collaborative.

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There are strong Senior Engineers already in this team. They don't need someone micromanaging them. They need a leader who can listen, challenge, brainstorm and help them become even better.

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The package:

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Up to $190k + super, with potential flexibility for an exceptional candidate.

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The role is Melbourne-based with a hybrid working model of two days per week in the office.

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If you're a technical leader who still enjoys actually talking about technology, we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Technical Lead (Victoria)
🏢 Refactor Recruitment
📍 Victoria