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.
Desired Skills and Experience
Engineering Team Lead, Engineering Lead, Technical Leadership, .NET, C#, Domain Driven Design, TDD, BDD, Cloud Native, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, AWS, Product Engineering, People Leadership, Engineering Transformation, Sydney, Hybrid Working