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We’re partnering with a large, ASX-listed organisation looking for a Lead Engineer to help shape and scale their customer-facing digital platforms across web and mobile.

This role sits in a core digital technology team, working on high-visibility customer experiences and widely used digital products across Australia.

The role
As Lead Engineer, you’ll be the technical driver for a key digital domain, balancing hands-on engineering with architectural leadership and stakeholder engagement.

You will:

• Help lift engineering practices across the team (code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD, documentation), and own the technical direction for your area
• Spend roughly 70% of your time on architecture, solution design, and stakeholder management, and 30% hands-on coding and technical oversight
• Lead and mentor offshore engineering squads
• Work closely with Product, Architecture, Security and other delivery teams to align on patterns, standards and roadmaps
• Make and justify technical decisions around scalability, resilience, performance and maintainability

You’ll be a key voice in how the digital stack evolves, ensuring solutions are robust, well-designed and aligned with broader platform strategy.

Tech environment
You’ll be operating primarily across:

• React, TypeScript, Node.js (microservices / APIs)
• SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
• AWS, CI/CD, Git

You don’t need to be the deepest specialist in every tool, but you do need to be confident leading discussions on architecture, trade-offs and best practice in this ecosystem.

About you
You’re likely currently a Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer or very strong Senior Engineer ready to formally step into a lead role. You’ll bring:

• Strong architectural experience in modern web/distributed systems
• A solid background with Node.js, React, TypeScript, AWS
• Proven experience influencing technical decisions and explaining trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience leading or mentoring offshore teams (or distributed squads)
• Comfort balancing hands-on coding with design, leadership and stakeholder work
• Clear communication style and the ability to simplify complex technical concepts

Experience in large-scale, complex enterprise environments will be highly regarded.

Ways of working

• Location: Melbourne-based role
• Work pattern: Hybrid – 3 days in the office at present, with an expected gradual increase next year in line with broader in-office collaboration expectations

How to apply If you’re a Lead/Principal Engineer who enjoys owning architecture, guiding teams and still staying close to the code, we’d love to chat.

Please apply with your CV or reach out for a confidential discussion.

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