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Overview Build What Matters

The Engineering Tech Lead owns technical quality, architectural direction, and engineering standards within a product team. This is an ownership role. The Tech Lead is accountable for whether the codebase is getting better, whether architectural decisions hold up over time, and whether engineers are building the right way.

At Sitemate, the Tech Lead works alongside the Engineering Manager and the Product Design Manager (PDM). The PDM owns the what: scope, design, acceptance criteria. The Manager owns the how: capacity, planning, unblocking. The Tech Lead owns technical quality and direction. In practice these overlap constantly and require close collaboration.

The Tech Lead is also a practising engineer. They contribute code, ship features, and lead by example, not from the sidelines. Around half their time goes to technical initiatives: tech debt, platform improvements, and architectural unlocks that make the rest of the team faster.

Employment:

Full-time

Based: Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia

Remuneration (Including Super): AUD $160,000 - $200,000 pending your experience

About Sitemate Sitemate is the front line AI company for the built world. We build software and AI agents for construction, engineering, manufacturing, and energy companies, helping field teams capture work as it happens and the business turn that activity into structured, auditable records. The Sitemate platforms include Dashpivot, Gearbelt, the Sitemate App, and Flowsite, and Sitemate’s AI agent is called Storm.





Storm is our AI agent layer, working underneath Dashpivot, Gearbelt, the Sitemate App, and Flowsite to turn what happens on-site into structured, auditable records.

We’ve achieved robust product-market fit - generating thousands of new monthly leads through word-of-mouth and organic marketing alone.

Backed by Blackbird, Australia and New Zealand’s #1 venture capital firm, and a graduate of the Startmate Accelerator, Sitemate has grown from 5 people in 2018 to over 150 across 18+ countries. Our team blends deep industry experience with cutting-edge product design to build tools that modernise one of the world’s largest and most essential industries.

Why Join Sitemate At Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.

We’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.

You’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.

Our Core Values Our core values dictate “how we work”.



We believe that basic human values such as honesty, trust and integrity are required to simply ‘get in the door’. Our values are designed to help us determine if an already great person, will be a great fit at Sitemate.

Handle with Care:

Handle with thought and care, decisions are considered and consciously delivered

Everything Engineered:

Everything engineered, intentional, planned and systematic

Quality Certified:

Do it well, with attention to detail and accuracy, or don’t do it at all

Fast Tracked:

Fast, incremental, and constant delivery of change

High Vis:

A high visibility, transparent and open environment

Rain, Hail or Shine:

Show up for your team, your customers and yourself

Learn more about our values:

Read:

On Sitemate's Values, Culture and DNA

Listen:

Unleashing your Zilla

On scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture

What We Offer

Competitive, performance-based remuneration

Equity options

- own a piece of what you’re helping to build

20 days of paid annual leave , plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave

Paid parental leave

- 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support)

Professional growth budget

and a transparent career development framework

Laptop and home-office setup budget

Flexible work

- remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year

Community & connection

- weekly team lunches, global offsites, and our signature “Life Story” sessions

Sydney HQ perks

- rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers, and cycle storage in Hay

📌 Tech Lead (Canberra)
🏢 Sitemate
📍 Canberra