Engineering Team Lead

About the Role

Join an in-house product development team delivering cloud-native SaaS software. As Engineering Team Lead, you’ll guide a backend-focused team working with .NET engineers, shaping technical direction and helping turn product goals into reliable, valuable software.

This is a hands-on-where-needed leadership role. You’ll work closely with a Product Manager and Designer to make decisions together, break down complex work into useful increments and deliver outcomes each sprint. A key part of the role is creating a safe, collaborative team environment where engineers can grow and do their best work.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead an agile team to deliver working software against product backlogs and sprint goals.
• Partner with product and design to balance customer needs, technical choices and business outcomes.
• Guide the design of scalable, resilient and maintainable software architectures and integrations.
• Coach engineers, provide constructive feedback and create opportunities for professional growth.
• Promote strong engineering practices, including peer review, automated testing, CI/CD and continuous delivery.
• Support reliable SaaS operations through monitoring, automation and SRE practices.
• Contribute to technology direction and continuous improvement across engineering.
• Help resolve technical risks and support successful product implementation and ongoing operation.

What You'll Need (Essential)

• Experience leading an agile or Scrum software team delivering product outcomes.
• Experience delivering cloud-native SaaS products using DevOps, CI/CD, automation and continuous delivery.
• Experience designing scalable, resilient software architectures and integrating systems through APIs or similar interfaces.
• Strong capability in either C#/.NET Core and containerised cloud-native services, or JavaScript/TypeScript with React and modern front-end development.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure automation, monitoring or SRE practices.
• Strong product and stakeholder collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and support high-performing, collaborative teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience in transportation, infrastructure, intelligent systems or another complex technology environment.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or certification in software engineering, IT, computer science, cloud, architecture, agile or DevOps. Equivalent professional experience is also valued.

The Details

• Salary: $180,000 to $190,000 plus Superannuation
• Type: Permanent
• Location and work arrangement: Milton, QLD - hybrid