Team Lead - Core Web

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.