Job title: Team Lead - Core Web
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Information Technology (IT)
Skills: React TypeScript AWS Node Jira
Job published: 13-08-2026
Job ID: 71207

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!