Engineering Team Lead (.NET | DDD | Event-Driven)

  • Sydney
  • Permanent
  • Wed Dec 17 03:52:16 2025
  • 66237

Engineering Team Lead (.NET | DDD | Event-Driven)

You’re a hands-on engineering leader who still enjoys getting close to the code. You care about clean domains, clear boundaries and systems that scale, not just shipping tickets. If that sounds like you, keep reading.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll lead a single engineering team, balancing technical leadership, delivery oversight and people leadership.

During a typical week, you’ll:

  • Work with Product to shape upcoming work into clear, deliverable backlogs

  • Guide solution design using Domain-Driven Design, microservices and event-driven architecture

  • Set and enforce engineering standards, quality and best practices

  • Stay hands-on (15–30%) where it matters - unblocking hard problems, setting patterns, raising the bar

  • Mentor engineers through 1:1s, coaching and career development

  • Own prioritisation, technical trade-offs and incident response within your team

  • Improve engineering processes to lift quality and reduce delivery risk

You won’t be buried in admin, and you won’t be a delivery manager. Your value is leverage.

What you bring

This role suits someone with:

  • ~8+ years software engineering experience, with strong depth in .NET

  • Proven experience with DDD, event-driven systems and microservices

  • A test-driven, quality-first mindset

  • Experience leading engineers or teams (formal or informal)

  • The confidence to make decisions and the maturity to lead opinionated engineers

  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Why this role is different

  • You’re trusted to own outcomes, not just manage people

  • Architecture isn’t theoretical - you influence real systems

  • Leadership doesn’t mean giving up engineering

  • You’ll work with strong peers (Product, Architects, Principal Engineers)

  • Focus on long-term system health, not short-term heroics

The basics

  • Permanent role

  • Sydney-based

  • Hybrid working

  • Technology-led engineering environment

If you’re ready to lead a team through complex domains, stay technical, and build systems you’re proud of - this one’s worth a look.