Overview
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.
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