Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged to recruit a Tech Lead for a fast-growing Australian technology company operating at the intersection of fintech and payments.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over technical direction, product decisions and engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on.
Role Title: Senior Software Engineer
Salary: $170,000 - $180,000 + Super
Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney CBD | Hybrid Working (2 days in office)
Role Details As a senior member of the engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping architecture, reviewing code, mentoring engineers and delivering high-quality software across a modern technology stack.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll spend approximately 50% of your time building software and 50% of your time driving engineering excellence through collaboration, design reviews and technical decision-making.
Working closely with founders, product and engineering teams, you'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while helping scale a platform used by leading retail and consumer brands.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver production-grade features across the stack, with a strong focus on backend development
Lead code reviews and establish best practices across the engineering function
Contribute to architecture and system design discussions
Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions
Drive adoption of up-to-date AI-assisted development practices and tooling
Mentor junior engineers and help elevate technical standards
Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and optimisation
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer or Technical Lead
Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally within Python-based environments
Excellent Computer Science fundamentals including software design, algorithms and data structures
Experience designing and building scalable production systems
Strong code review and technical leadership capability
Comfortable influencing technical direction and challenging ideas constructively
Experience working in high-performing engineering environments
Passion for leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity and quality
Nice to Have
Experience with Python, Flask, FastAPI, React, React Native or TypeScript
Experience with cloud-native or serverless architectures
Strong SQL and database optimisation skills
Exposure to e-commerce, payments or transactional platforms
Experience working within recognised technology, product or data-driven organisations
Additional Details & Benefits
High-impact role within a growing technology business
Opportunity to influence both technical and product strategy
Potential equity participation
Hybrid and flexible working environment
Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders
Modern engineering culture with strong adoption of AI development tools
Collaborative, high-performing team environment
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