Go Backend Tech Lead — High-Concurrency Platform

Nine; North Sydney Council; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks parental leave

Employee Exclusives program

Digital newspaper subscription

Stan subscription

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Job summary

Nine is seeking a Technical Lead to head the backend team powering 9Now and Stan. You will build resilient, high-concurrency distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps best practices. This role emphasizes leadership, coding excellence in Go, and a strong focus on security and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate with Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business goals and champion operational excellence across the platform.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams.
• Expertise in building backend services using Go.
• Strong cloud experience with AWS and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the backend team for the core streaming platform and APIs.
• Write, review, and deploy high-performance Go code.
• Design the full lifecycle of cloud-based distributed systems and APIs.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, and staged rollouts.
• Line manage engineers and support career growth and wellbeing.
• Champion AI and automation to enhance monitoring and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align roadmaps with business goals.
• Lead root-cause analysis to resolve production issues.

Skills

Go

AWS

Distributed systems

DevOps

Security

AI automation

Agile leadership

Job description

Nine is seeking a Technical Lead to head the backend team powering 9Now and Stan. You will build resilient, high-concurrency distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps best practices. This role emphasizes leadership, coding excellence in Go, and a strong focus on security and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate with Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business goals and champion operational excellence across the platform.