Our client is a privately held, Sydney-headquartered software company with customers across Australia, the UK, Europe and North America. They build secure identity, verification and onboarding products that help regulated organisations reduce risk and move faster. Think orchestration of third-party data sources, decisioning workflows and full auditability. They operate to ISO 27001 standards. Engineers sit close to the business.
The opportunity
Our client is looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to guide a small, high-impact product engineering team as they evolve a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will set direction, mentor developers and stay close to the code to deliver resilient, scalable services that move business outcomes.
What you will do
- Partner with operations, compliance and senior leaders to turn real use cases into clear technical designs and shipped value
- Drive service architecture and help split a large Node.js application into well-bounded services
- Set coding standards, test strategy and CI conventions the team can sustain
- Design secure RESTful APIs and integrations and steward data models for performance and integrity
- Mentor developers, remove blockers and lift delivery quality
- Contribute to reliability and shared operational support
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Jest. MongoDB as the primary store with Amazon Aurora on RDS where relational patterns fit. AWS across Elastic Beanstalk, ECS Fargate, Lambda and Step Functions. Infrastructure is managed with AWS CloudFormation. CI for deployments exists. Automated testing and pipeline maturity are being lifted.
What you will bring
- 8+ years in software engineering with strong TypeScript and Node.js
- Proven leadership in decomposing monoliths and defining service boundaries
- Deep MongoDB experience across modelling, indexing and performance tuning
- Strength in secure API design and third-party integrations
- Clear communicator who enjoys shaping requirements directly with business stakeholders
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving delivery flow and test practices
Sydney. Hybrid. In office Tuesday to Thursday.
If you thrive in a product environment, this is a role for you. Suitable applicants will be provided with a full overview of the role and opportunity. To apply, please quote #268396.
