Technical Team Lead – AU/NZ

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• You will be positioned at the convergence of product development, engineering, and delivery, facilitating the team's swift progress while ensuring the right solutions are built.

• Engage in development: Remain actively involved with the codebase, contributing to the design and creation of scalable, dependable systems.

• Influence our building process: Collaborate with other technical leaders and the CTPO to shape and advance our engineering strategy, architecture, and foundational platforms.

• Harness AI for efficiency: Investigate and implement methods to utilize AI tools that enhance developer productivity and expedite delivery.

• Take charge of delivery: Work closely with Product and Design teams to dissect challenges, plan effectively, and ensure successful product launches.

• Facilitate team progress: Maintain momentum, eliminate hurdles, and assist the team in achieving their objectives.

• Foster team growth: Mentor engineers, support their professional development, and cultivate a high-performing culture centered on learning, ownership, and constructive feedback.

• Ensure reliability and operability: Spearhead site reliability practices within the team, including observability, incident response, on-call duties, and the development of systems that are scalable, secure, and resilient.

⛳️ Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset: You think beyond your immediate team, caring about the product, the customer, and the business, and are driven to create a significant impact.

• Leadership in technical and interpersonal areas: You have experience leading or mentoring engineers and can influence technical decisions without needing to oversee everything.

• Product-focused mindset: You prioritize outcomes over mere output and enjoy collaborating closely with product and design teams.

• Results-oriented: You bring enthusiasm, drive, and a proactive approach, demonstrating pragmatism while making decisions and progressing forward.

• Passionate about AI: You are enthusiastic about the potential of AI to enhance software development processes and are eager to experiment and apply it effectively.

• Comfortable navigating uncertainty: You can operate with broad objectives and assist in defining a clear path ahead.

• Familiarity with our technology stack (or similar): Proficiency in React, Ruby on Rails, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary (we provide a salary that reflects your experience and the value you will bring to our team).

• An opportunity to participate in our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) to share in the long-term success of the company.

• Annual wellbeing allowance and support.

• Assistance with home office setup.

• 4 weeks of annual leave plus an extra day off on your birthday.

• Flexible and remote-first working environment (our headquarters is located in Wellington, NZ, but this role can be based anywhere in New Zealand or Australia).