Engineering Team Lead | .NET + React | $200k + Super
I'm hiring an
Engineering Team Lead
for an established, global SaaS business.
This is a genuine
player-coach
role.
You'll lead a team of
4-8 engineers
while spending
*****% of your time still building the product
yourself.
You'll be responsible for:
Leading and managing a team of 4-8 engineers, owning their growth, performance and delivery
Staying hands-on as a senior engineer, designing, building and enhancing the product
Setting the technical bar for your team and growing the engineers around you
Leading and expanding the use of AI within an AI-driven SDLC, raising the bar for how the team builds software with agentic tools
Partnering closely with product managers on the how, the why and the when of what gets built
Building accurate delivery estimates and making sure the team consistently meets its commitments
Monitoring issues and risks, proactively seeking solutions, and being part of the solution
What we're looking for:
Prior experience leading engineers with direct reports. Or,



without the title, significant and demonstrable evidence of up‐levelling teams and peer engineers
Extremely explicit communication, with a strong ability to influence and persuade decisions even when you're not directly in charge
A track record of taking on hard, risky work that has sometimes failed, and of owning the result and building towards success
Full‐stack capability, comfortable across backend technologies as well as the front end
Strong, demonstrable use of
agentic engineering tools and techniques
such as Claude Code, Codex or similar
Tech environment
C# / .NET
React
Angular across the legacy frontend
AI‐assisted engineering with tools such as Claude Code
Established SaaS product with significant new feature development
This role will suit someone who enjoys
ownership, ambiguity and solving difficult problems
, rather than waiting for someone else to define every step.

📌 Engineering Team Lead |.Net + React (New South Wales)
🏢 Novus Recruitment Solutions
📍 New South Wales