Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged to recruit a Tech Lead for a fast-growing Australian technology company operating at the intersection of fintech, payments and e-commerce.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over technical direction, product decisions and engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on.

Role Title: Tech Lead

Salary: $160,000 - $170,000 + Super

Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney CBD | Hybrid Working (2-3 days in office)

Role Details:

As a senior member of the engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping architecture, reviewing code, mentoring engineers and delivering high-quality software across a modern technology stack.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll spend approximately 50% of your time building software and 50% of your time driving engineering excellence through collaboration, design reviews and technical decision-making.

Working closely with founders, product and engineering teams, you'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while helping scale a platform used by leading retail and consumer brands.

Key Responsibilities:

* Deliver production-grade features across the stack, with a strong focus on backend development

* Lead code reviews and establish best practices across the engineering function

* Contribute to architecture and system design discussions

* Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions

* Drive adoption of modern AI-assisted development practices and tooling

* Mentor junior engineers and help elevate technical standards

* Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and optimisation

Required Skills & Experience:

* Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Staff Engineer or Technical Lead

* Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally within Python-based environments

* Excellent Computer Science fundamentals including software design, algorithms and data structures

* Experience designing and building scalable production systems

* Strong code review and technical leadership capability

* Comfortable influencing technical direction and challenging ideas constructively

* Experience working in high-performing engineering environments

* Passion for leveraging AI tools to improve software development productivity and quality

Nice to Have:

* Experience with Python, Flask, FastAPI, React, React Native or TypeScript

* Experience with cloud-native or serverless architectures

* Strong SQL and database optimisation skills

* Exposure to e-commerce, payments or transactional platforms

* Experience working within recognised technology, product or data-driven organisations

Additional Details & Benefits:

* High-impact role within a growing technology business

* Opportunity to influence both technical and product strategy

* Potential equity participation

* Hybrid and flexible working environment

* Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders

* Modern engineering culture with strong adoption of AI development tools

* Collaborative, high-performing team environment

To Apply:

If this sounds like your next opportunity, please click 'Apply Now' and submit your resume. For a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, contact Talent International.