Hands-On Technical Team Lead — Web & AI-Driven Retail

mecca; Richmond Shire; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MECCA is seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to head a web squad of three to four engineers. You’ll mentor the team, contribute to design and delivery, and stay hands-on with code in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.

You’ll work with Product, QA, Design and Data teams, drive CI/CD, testing and releases, and help manage release risk for a high-traffic retail site. AI-enabled development is encouraged.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production-grade web applications.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience defining and embedding a new workflow within a team.
• Stays up to date with technology and applies it sensibly.
• Experience maintaining a large, high-traffic website with release risk.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript with Next.js, React and GraphQL (Apollo).
• Backend design with REST/GraphQL and databases; CI/CD and automated testing.
• Cloud-native AWS experience; web performance, accessibility and SEO knowledge.
• AI across the software development lifecycle experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, building a team culture of ownership and learning.
• Stay hands-on in development, contributing to solution design and delivery.
• Collaborate with Product, Designer and QA to write clear requirements and designs.
• Run technical spikes to test proposed solutions before committing.
• Review PRs, lift code quality, and define code quality standards.
• Improve the development lifecycle from development to production, including CI/CD and testing.
• Understand release risk and manage production issues effectively.
• Drive improvements in performance, accessibility, SEO, security, and reliability.
• Partner with Product, Architecture and Data to shape customer-loved solutions.
• Evaluate emerging tools and AI with clear guardrails and value.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Next.js

React

GraphQL

Apollo

CI/CD

Git

Testing (unit/integration/E2E)

AWS

Web performance

Accessibility

SEO

Leadership

Tools

REST

GraphQL APIs

Job description

MECCA is seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to head a web squad of three to four engineers. You’ll mentor the team, contribute to design and delivery, and stay hands-on with code in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.

You’ll work with Product, QA, Design and Data teams, drive CI/CD, testing and releases, and help manage release risk for a high-traffic retail site. AI-enabled development is encouraged.