Refactor Recruitment Pty Ltd – Melbourne VIC
Melbourne | Hybrid (2 days per week in office) | $190k + super
There are Engineering Tech Lead roles where you manage roadmaps, shuffle Jira tickets around and slowly forget how software actually works.
This isn't one of them.
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.
You'll lead a team of experienced Software Engineers, partner closely with Product and remain genuinely involved in the technology.
That doesn't mean sitting there smashing out tickets eight hours a day.
It does mean being comfortable reviewing PRs, getting involved in architecture, challenging technical decisions and occasionally jumping into the code when needed.
What you'll be doing
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.
You'll work closely with Product and the wider business to shape the technical direction of products used by a significant B2B customer base.
You'll:
Lead, coach and develop a strong engineering team
Remain involved in architecture and technical decision-making
Review code and contribute technically when needed
Build and evolve scalable, reliable cloud-based products
Work closely with Product on priorities, trade-offs and roadmap decisions
Improve engineering practices across development, testing, deployment and operations




Help modernise and evolve existing systems without trying to rewrite everything for the fun of it
What we're looking for:
The big one is technical credibility.
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.
Ideally you'll bring:
Strong commercial
C# / .NET Core
experience
Experience designing and evolving software architecture
Strong cloud experience, ideally
AWS
Microservices and distributed systems experience
Experience building scalable, high-traffic or customer-facing applications
Contemporary software engineering and CI/CD practices
People leadership, coaching and mentoring experience
Strong stakeholder and Product management skills
Front-end experience with
Angular/TypeScript or React
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.
Most importantly, you're collaborative.
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.
The package:
Up to $190k + super, with potential flexibility for an exceptional candidate.
The role is Melbourne-based with a hybrid working model of
two days per week in the office
.
If you're a technical leader who still enjoys actually talking about technology, we'd love to hear from you.
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📌 Technical Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Refactor Recruitment
📍 Melbourne