Golang Tech Lead: Hands-On Cloud Architect & Team Leader

SustainRecruit; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SustainRecruit in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to join a large-scale, high-traffic technology environment. You’ll lead a small team of 4–6 engineers, stay hands-on with Golang and AWS, and guide architecture, design and delivery across cloud-native platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive engineering excellence, and work closely with Product and Delivery teams to remove blockers and accelerate velocity while maintaining high coding standards.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Golang development experience.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Proven experience designing and building event-driven and serverless systems in production.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS and EventBridge, or equivalent event-driven technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including retries, idempotency, event ordering and failure handling.
• Strong experience designing and building microservices.
• Experience with observability, distributed tracing, correlation and system resilience.
• A strong software engineering and architecture background.
• Experience technically leading, mentoring or coaching engineers.
• The ability to remain genuinely hands-on with code.
• Strong understanding of testing and CI/CD.
• Experience contributing to architecture and technical design decisions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly explain technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership to a team of 4–6 engineers.
• Remaining hands-on with Golang development.
• Leading technical design, architecture and complex problem solving.
• Designing and building scalable solutions across AWS.
• Conducting code reviews and supporting engineers with technical challenges.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers to improve technical capability.
• Driving engineering excellence across testing, observability, resilience and shared tooling.
• Improving engineering standards and development practices.
• Contributing to architecture and solution design across cloud-native platforms.
• Working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams.
• Helping remove technical blockers and improve engineering velocity.
• Creating a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.

Skills

Golang

AWS

Event-driven

Serverless

Microservices

Observability

Testing

CI/CD

Architecture

Leadership

Tools

Lambda

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

Job description

SustainRecruit in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to join a large-scale, high-traffic technology environment. You’ll lead a small team of 4–6 engineers, stay hands-on with Golang and AWS, and guide architecture, design and delivery across cloud-native platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive engineering excellence, and work closely with Product and Delivery teams to remove blockers and accelerate velocity while maintaining high coding standards.