Engineering Team Lead

Helfie.AI; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A health tech company in Melbourne is seeking an Engineering Lead to oversee the development of scalable distributed solutions for its AI-powered healthcare platform. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on coding, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the performance of cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Candidates should have extensive experience in software development, strong leadership skills, and deep technical expertise across various programming languages and cloud technologies. This full-time position offers an opportunity to impact global healthcare access.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience of hands-on software development.
• 2+ years’ experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Experience implementing DevOps best practices, including CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical standards, engineering excellence, and best practices across the team.
• Guide the Engineering team to build scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance delivery needs with technical strategy.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Microservices

APIs

Cloud design

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Helfie is on a mission to redefine global preventative healthcare. We’re pioneering an entirely new operating system for human health – empowering billions with instant, affordable health checks and AI-driven insights. Our vision is to build trust, drive organic engagement, and make preventative healthcare a reality for all 8 billion of us.

Join us as we revolutionise the healthcare landscape and make early detection and prevention accessible to everyone.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled hands‑on Engineering Lead to join our team in Melbourne and drive the technical delivery of highly scalable distributed solutions for Helfie.ai, our AI‑powered preventive healthcare platform.

You will balance hands‑on coding (50‑75%) with leadership responsibilities—design, direction, task breakdown, and work allocation. You will serve as the technical anchor for the team, responsible for maintaining the reliability, performance, and overall health of our platforms, products, and services. You will work closely with the Scrum Master / Iteration Manager, Architect and Product Owner to deliver high‑quality outcomes that balance delivery priorities, technical debt reduction, and operational excellence.

This position combines hands‑on engineering with strong technical leadership. You will design and build on‑prem and cloud solutions, mentor and guide engineers, and work collaboratively with fellow Senior Engineers to uplift engineering standards and practices across the Engineering function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive technical standards, engineering excellence, and best practices across the team
• Guide and support the Engineering team to build scalable, resilient, and secure cloud and on‑prem infrastructure
• Partner with product and consuming teams to understand challenges and deliver meaningful, value‑driven solutions
• Analyse data, workflows, and processes to drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency
• Lead by example through strong technical leadership, engineering best practices, and agile delivery
• Maintain the operational health, reliability, and cost efficiency of on‑prem and cloud platforms
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance delivery needs with long‑term technical strategy

Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years’ experience of hands‑on software development
• 2+ years’ experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Deep technical expertise in any programming language e.g. C#, Java, Python, Rust or any other
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, on‑prem and cloud design
• Frontend exposure: Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter or Xamarin
• Strong cloud governance across cost, policy, networking, and large‑scale resource automation
• Experience implementing DevOps best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Git‑based workflows, semantic versioning, and automated orchestration of cloud resources
• Provisioning, operating, and automating Kubernetes and containerised workloads (Docker) at scale
• Scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, and similar languages, including unit testing for scripting‑based automation
• Designing Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions with Terraform
• Building automation for cost optimisation, operational health, metrics, logging, monitoring, and observability
• Producing clear, concise documentation for both technical and non‑technical audiences

Equal opportunity statement

Helfie.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy or sexual orientation. We encourage applications from a wide range of candidates and selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development and Health and Human Services