Team Lead - Core Web

Job Description

Role

Engineering Team Lead

Overview
Are you a technically strong leader with a passion for improving systems, teams, and decision-making? We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of 4–5 engineers in delivering high-traffic, customer-facing web experiences at scale. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a critical web platform, shape its technical direction, and drive meaningful improvements in performance, architecture, and engineering effectiveness.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on leadership position, balancing technical involvement with team development and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4–5 engineers.
• Own the technical direction of a high-traffic web platform.
• Improve Core Web Vitals, SEO, latency, and overall web performance.
• Drive better engineering velocity and remove technical blockers.
• Lead architecture and system design discussions.
• Enhance technical standards, code quality, and engineering practices.
• Manage technical debt and cross-team dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams.
• Help the team make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Communicate technical risks, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications
To excel in this role, you should have:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Team Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Manager.
• Strong expertise in:
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Web performance and scalability
  • High-traffic customer-facing platforms
  • System design and architecture
  • APIs and distributed services
  • Cloud platforms (AWS)
• Direct experience in people leadership and team development.
• A track record of partnering with Product and Design teams.

Additional experience with GraphQL, micro-frontends, modern application security, and AI coding tools is highly desirable.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Solving complex performance or scalability challenges.
• Leading impactful technical decisions.
• Improving engineering velocity and team effectiveness.
• Developing and mentoring engineers.
• Driving adoption of new technical approaches.
• Managing disagreement and resistance constructively.
• Balancing technical quality with product and commercial priorities.
• Explaining complex engineering problems clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Delivering measurable improvements, not just technical activity.

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead and shape a high-scale web platform.
• Work on meaningful technical challenges in performance, architecture, and scalability.
• Hybrid working environment based in Sydney.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Professional growth through leadership and technical challenges.

If you are a technically strong engineering leader who enjoys improving systems, teams, and decision-making, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today to take the next step in your career!