We're looking for a hands‐on Technical Lead to join a well‐established Australian digital business operating a large‐scale, high‐traffic technology environment.
This is a highly technical role for someone with robust commercial Golang and AWS experience who enjoys solving complex engineering problems while providing technical leadership to a small team.
You'll work closely with and provide technical direction to a team of approximately 4–6 engineers, remaining hands‐on with code, architecture and solution design while helping lift engineering standards across the team.
The Role
You'll work across a modern Golang, AWS and event‐driven/serverless environment, combining hands‐on software engineering with technical leadership.
You'll be responsible for:
Providing technical leadership to a team of 4–6 engineers
Remaining hands‐on with Golang development
Leading technical design, architecture and complex problem solving
Designing and building scalable solutions across AWS
Conducting code reviews and supporting engineers with technical challenges
Mentoring and coaching engineers to improve technical capability
Driving engineering excellence across testing, observability, resilience and shared tooling
Improving engineering standards and development practices
Contributing to architecture and solution design across cloud‐native platforms
Working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams
Helping remove technical blockers and improve engineering velocity
Creating a collaborative,



high‐performing engineering culture
What We're Looking For:
We're primarily looking for strong technical credibility. You may currently be a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Senior Engineer or Staff Engineer. What matters is that you're an accomplished engineer who can provide direction to others without moving away from hands‐on engineering.
Ideally, you'll bring:
Strong commercial Golang development experience
Robust hands‐on AWS experience
Proven experience designing and building event‐driven and serverless systems in production
Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS and EventBridge, or equivalent event‐driven technologies
Solid understanding of distributed systems, including retries, idempotency, event ordering and failure handling
Strong experience designing and building microservices
Experience with observability, distributed tracing, correlation and system resilience
A strong software engineering and architecture background
Experience technically leading, mentoring or coaching engineers
The ability to remain genuinely hands‐on with code
Solid understanding of testing and CI/CD
Experience contributing to architecture and technical design decisions
Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly explain technical trade‐offs.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Golang/AWS engineer ready to take greater technical ownership and lead a small engineering team while continuing to code.
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