Senior Full Stack Tech Lead — Licensing Platform

NSW Government; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking experienced Senior Full Stack Developers (Tech Lead) to provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle. You will mentor teams, influence architecture decisions, and deliver scalable applications across backend and frontend technologies while remaining hands-on with coding and engineering best practices.

Join a high-performing engineering team supporting a large-scale, regulated transport platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years in a Technical Lead role
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot and the Spring Framework
• Hands-on GraphQL experience with schema design, resolvers and federation
• Frontend experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and React or Angular
• Experience with API gateways (Kong/Apigee)
• Strong microservices, distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS (Lambda, EKS/Kubernetes, S3, IAM)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions)
• Strong SQL with relational databases; NoSQL exposure advantageous
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environments
• Experience leading technical design and architecture across backend/frontend
• Strong mentoring capability and uplift of engineering teams
• Experience managing API gateway governance and best practices
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues and lead root-cause analysis

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle
• Drive architecture decisions and shape the technical roadmap
• Mentor and uplift developers while remaining hands-on
• Collaborate with product owners, architects and stakeholders
• Deliver scalable, high-quality applications across backend and frontend
• Lead technical design and architecture across both backend and frontend apps

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

GraphQL

TypeScript/JavaScript

React/Angular

API gateways

Microservices

AWS

CI/CD

SQL

NoSQL

Agile/Scrum

Mentoring

Leadership

API gateway governance

Root-cause analysis

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Kong

Apigee

Job description

Transport for NSW is seeking experienced Senior Full Stack Developers (Tech Lead) to provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle. You will mentor teams, influence architecture decisions, and deliver scalable applications across backend and frontend technologies while remaining hands-on with coding and engineering best practices.

Join a high-performing engineering team supporting a large-scale, regulated transport platform.