Engineering Lead

Stack: Go, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Kubernetes.

Contract: 12 months

Day Rate: $1300 inc. Super The Opportunity:

This Australian SaaS business is delivering a major integration of its platform into a global technology partner's cloud offering.

There's at least 12 months of work mapped out, with the project start expected in early December 2026. The focus is delivery: getting the platform running inside the partner's product, on the partner's release cycles, at enterprise scale.

The Role:

- As a hands-on player-coach, you'll focus roughly 70% of your time on leading the team and 30% hands-on.
- You’ll own releases and code review for the integration, and be the main technical contact for the partner’s engineering teams in Asia, with most of that communication written through Jira.

What you'll be doing:

- Leading a team of eight: across application, platform and QA
- Owning releases end to end: planning, defect triage, code review and sign-off
- Reviewing everything the team ships in Go and PHP
- Steering the core workstreams: database migration, multi-tenancy,



multi-cloud deployment and public API work
- Telling a defect from a change request, and saying so in writing, politely and firmly
- Shifting your day slightly for overlap with the partner's asian-based teams (early evening, not midnight)

What you'll bring:

- Robust production Go, plus enough modern PHP to review it confidently
- 5+ years building production software, including leading a small team delivering into a larger partner or enterprise customer on fixed release cycles
- MySQL or MariaDB on live systems: query tuning, schema changes and migrations
- Redis in production
- Daily use of Cursor or a similar AI IDE on production code, and the judgment to know where not to trust it (Cursor is used in the role)
- Real-time communications, telephony or other high-volume transactional systems
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience

Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.

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? George Bates | LinkedIn

📌 Engineering Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 Sydney