Engineering Team Lead

About the role

This role combines hands-on software development, technical leadership, and people leadership, giving you the opportunity to influence product direction while helping engineers do their best work.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers
• Stay hands-on with coding, architecture, and technical delivery
• Partner with Product, Design, and leadership to shape roadmaps and engineering strategy
• Drive quality, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
• Explore and implement AI tools to improve developer productivity
• Remove blockers, support delivery, and help the team move quickly

About you

• Experience leading or mentoring software engineers
• Strong software engineering background with a desire to remain hands-on
• A product mindset focused on customer and business outcomes
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving, evolving environments
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Interest in leveraging AI to improve software development
• Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD technologies (or similar experience)

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)
• Annual wellbeing allowance
• Home office setup support
• 4 weeks annual leave plus your birthday off
• Flexible, remote-first working
• Work from anywhere in New Zealand

If you are interested and have the relevant skills and experience, APPLY NOW [email protected]