Engineering Team Lead

A successful Brisbane based technology company is hiring an Engineering Lead to head up one of its agile product teams. This permanent role offers $175,000 to $185,000 plus Superannuation, based in inner city Brisbane with hybrid working. You'll lead a cross-functional team building cloud-native SaaS products, balancing hands-on technical leadership with genuine people development.

About the Role

This is a rare opportunity to lead engineering on a mission-critical software platform that keeps major cities moving. You'll join a well-established technology company whose products sit at the intersection of software engineering and real-world challenges, working on problems that genuinely matter and have visible impact.

As Engineering Lead, you'll operate as a true trio partner alongside a Product Manager and Designer, co-owning outcomes rather than simply managing delivery. This isn't a role for someone who wants to hoard the hard problems. The organisation is specifically looking for a leader who makes the people around them better, someone who builds psychological safety, mentors generously, and raises the bar through their own example.

You'll have the technical latitude to shape architecture and engineering practice, while staying close enough to the code to contribute hands-on when it counts. If you're energised by growing engineers as much as shipping great software, this role was built for you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead an agile product team to deliver working, high-quality software every sprint
• Provide technical direction on architecture, scalability, security and performance
• Contribute hands-on to design, development, test automation and maintenance where needed
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevOps, SRE and automated testing
• Mentor and coach engineers, creating stretch opportunities and giving direct feedback
• Partner closely with Product and Design to sequence work and de-risk delivery
• Collaborate with other Engineering Leads to drive broader technology and process improvements
• Support product rollout, adoption and ongoing operational performance

What You'll Need (Essential)

• Proven leadership of an agile or Scrum-based engineering team
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with genuine coaching and mentoring ability
• Experience delivering cloud-native SaaS products using DevOps, CI/CD and automation practices
• Sound understanding of modular, scalable and resilient software architecture and system integration
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Ability to balance technical, customer, operational and commercial considerations in product decisions
• Demonstrated experience solving ambiguous problems and breaking work into valuable, sequenced increments

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and PostgreSQL
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jira and Confluence
• Exposure to test frameworks including Playwright, Selenium or Jest
• Understanding of REST, gRPC, JSON or Protobuf integration protocols
• Background in transportation, intelligent systems, or other complex infrastructure-driven environments
• Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience

The Details

• Salary: $175,000 to $185,000 (neg) plus Superannuation, depending on experience
• Type: Permanent
• Reporting to: Engineering Manager

How to Apply

To apply or find out more, send your resume to [email protected]