aXcelerate is a leading Australian SaaS company transforming the way organisations develop skills, manage learning, and build workforce capability. Our integrated platform combines a powerful Student Management System (SMS), Learning Management System (LMS), and Skills, our workforce competency management solution, to help training providers, enterprises, and government organisations simplify compliance, streamline operations, and develop confident, capable workforces.

Recognised as a Great Place to Work for three consecutive years, we're proud to foster a culture where our people are empowered to innovate, collaborate and grow. We believe our success comes from creating an environment where ideas are valued, curiosity is encouraged, and every individual has the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

As we continue our exciting growth journey, there's never been a better time to join a team that's shaping the future of education technology.

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to be the technical authority for one of our small, product-aligned squads.

You’ll report to the Engineering Manager and work alongside the squad’s Product Manager. They own the what; you own the how: system design, code quality, technical risk, and taking complex features from design through to production. This is a hands‑on role. You’ll write code while lifting the engineers around you.

Our engineers increasingly direct, review and validate the work of AI coding agents rather than writing every line themselves. You’ll set the standard for how your squad does that safely and well.

Responsibilities

Design and technical direction

- Own the technical design for your squad’s product area,



working with our Solutions Architect so it fits the wider architecture
- Break complex problems into clear, staged designs, including where reliable research is needed
- Design clean boundaries between components, APIs and integrations
- Document technical decisions and their reasoning, and bring the squad and stakeholders along with you
- Pay down technical debt and legacy risk in a planned, measurable way

Delivery

- Drive complex features from design to launch, owning technical risk and cross‑squad dependencies
- Shape scope and trade-offs early with your Product Manager
- Keep the squad unblocked and shipping at a steady pace
- Roll out changes safely, with monitoring, alerting and rollback plans in place
- Lead your squad’s adoption of AI coding agents and our internal AI tooling
- Make sure AI‑generated code meets the same bar for quality, security and maintainability as anything else
- Find practical ways AI can lift productivity, and share what works across Engineering

Quality, security and reliability

- Lead code reviews and set the quality bar for the squad
- Own resolution of complex defects and production incidents in your area
- Build security and privacy into design from the start
- Work with Platform and Infrastructure teams on observability, performance and reliability





People and collaboration

- Coach and mentor engineers, especially those growing into senior and lead roles
- Spread knowledge through pairing, design reviews, documentation and tech talks, so no one becomes a bottleneck
- Take part in hiring, and partner with your Engineering Manager on feedback and squad health
- Work closely with Product, Design, QA and other Technical Leads, and explain technical trade-offs in plain language

About you

- 6+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including 2+ years as a technical lead, lead engineer or equivalent
- Strong hands‑on experience building and maintaining multi‑tenant, cloud‑based SaaS
- A track record of designing systems and leading complex features from design to production
- Experience leading code reviews and setting engineering standards
- Hands‑on use of AI coding tools or agents in your day‑to‑day work, and a clear view on how to review and validate their output
- Experience with AWS (or another major cloud platform), CI/CD and modern delivery practices
- A history of mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge
- Clear communication with product and business stakeholders
- Comfort working in Agile, cross‑functional squads
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

Highly desirable:

- Experience with student management, learning management, HR/workforce or other compliance‑heavy B2B platforms
- An understanding of the Australian VET sector or edtech
- Experience modernising legacy platforms or leading incremental migrations
- Experience with integrat

📌 Technical Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 aXcelerate
📍 Brisbane