Engineering Team Lead

Engineering Team Lead
Sydney
High flexibility in a hybrid working style
Up to $195k + Super

You might be right for this role if you have never chased management for the title, but somehow became the person others listen to anyway.

This is a role for a senior engineer who naturally became a leader and can still open the IDE without fear, while also being comfortable shaping how teams work, think, and grow.

We are looking for someone with a genuine passion or curiosity for exploring better ways of working, and the appetite to help evolve an engineering practice in a modern, cloud-based environment.

What we are really hiring for

We are open to two different leadership profiles, united by curiosity and a desire for uplift.

The People-Led Transformer
You lead improvement through people, process, and delivery.

• Deeply care about how engineering teams operate day to day

• Have helped teams improve quality, delivery, or engineering discipline

• Enjoy mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers

• Introduce new ways of working thoughtfully and pragmatically

• See engineering practice, including DDD, testing, and delivery, as something that should evolve

The Technology-Driven Innovator
You lead improvement through technical curiosity and craft.

• Question architectural defaults and technical assumptions

• Are comfortable working with DDD-aligned systems and evolving domains

• Enjoy exploring better patterns, tooling, and approaches

• Influence through hands-on credibility

• Think in systems, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability

Both paths are welcome. What matters is energy for improvement.

What you will be doing

• Lead an engineering team while remaining technically credible

• Work closely with product to shape domain-aligned solutions

• Guide technical direction and break work into clear, deliverable backlogs

• Mentor engineers and lift engineering standards

• Improve how work gets done, not just ensure it gets done

• Stay hands-on where it adds the most value, roughly 15-30 percent

• Operate within a cloud-native, distributed systems environment

What you will bring

• Strong background in .NET and C# software engineering

• Experience leading engineers or teams in product-led environments

• Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design, applied pragmatically

• Strong appreciation for TDD and BDD as tools for quality and shared understanding

• Comfort with cloud-based architectures, microservices, and event-driven systems

• Pragmatic approach to design, testing, quality, and delivery

• Confidence leading opinionated, senior engineers

• Curiosity, humility, and a willingness to challenge the status quo

The environment

• Sydney-based

• High flexibility in a hybrid working style

• Cloud-native, product-led, regulated domain

• Strong emphasis on engineering craft, quality, and sustainable delivery

• Salary up to $195k + Super, depending on experience

If you are energised by improving how engineering teams build and deliver software, this role will resonate.

Send me your CV, let's chat.