Software Engineering Lead at Digital Native

Digital Native; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 165,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Salary packaging

Work from home

Hybrid remote in Brisbane

Job summary

Digital Native in Brisbane, AU is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to guide an agile team and shape the design and delivery of cloud-native products powering critical infrastructure across Australia.

You’ll balance technical leadership with hands-on contribution, mentoring engineers, driving architecture decisions, and delivering robust, scalable services while fostering modern engineering practices and strong team growth.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and communication with a team-first approach.
• Solid experience in agile teams and practices.
• Experience in SaaS with DevOps/SRE focus and automation.
• Strong C#/.NET Core development for cloud-native microservices and APIs.
• Understanding modular, scalable, resilient architectures.
• Experience with containerised workloads and system integration.
• Familiarity with REST, gRPC, JSON, XML, Protobuf.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, PostgreSQL.
• CI/CD and tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, Jira.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile product team, delivering working software each sprint.
• Provide technical guidance for quality, security, reliability, and performance.
• Contribute to design, development and test automation of apps, microservices and APIs.
• Collaborate with Engineering Leads to drive tech and process improvements.
• Champion modern engineering practices including code reviews and automation.
• Support rollouts, commissioning and user training with technical teams.
• Document and share outcomes to build repeatable automated practices.
• Mentor and coach team members for growth and development.

Skills

Leadership

Agile practices

SaaS DevOps

C#/.NET Core

Cloud-native

Microservices

REST/gRPC

CI/CD

Git/Jira)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering / IT / CS

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Apply for Software Engineering Lead at Digital Native in Brisbane, QLD, AU. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. This is an opportunity to lead from the front in a technology organisation that builds software powering critical infrastructure used every day across Australia.

Working in close partnership with a Product Manager, you’ll guide an agile team through the full lifecycle of designing, building and delivering cloud-native products that are robust, scalable and genuinely impactful. You won’t just be managing, you’ll be building. This role balances technical leadership with hands‑on contribution to design, development and code, giving you the chance to stay close to the technology while shaping the direction of the product and the growth of the people around you.

You’ll work alongside other Engineering Leads and senior leadership to drive architectural decisions, promote strong engineering practices, and continuously improve how the team works. If you’re someone who thrives on mentoring others, championing good engineering practice, and having real input into product direction rather than just following a backlog, this role offers exactly that kind of ownership.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead an agile product team, working closely with a Product Manager to deliver working software each sprint
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to ensure product quality, security, reliability and performance
• Contribute directly to design, development, and test automation of applications, microservices and APIs
• Collaborate with other Engineering Leads to identify and drive technology and process improvements
• Champion contemporary engineering practices including code reviews, test automation and agile/scrum principles
• Support system rollouts, commissioning and user training alongside technical and consulting teams
• Document and share outcomes to build repeatable, automated practices across the team
• Mentor and coach team members to support their ongoing growth and development

What You’ll Need (Essential)

• Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills, with an empathetic, team‑first approach
• Solid experience working within agile teams and practices
• Experience in a SaaS environment utilising DevOps and SRE practices with a focus on automation
• Strong C#/.NET Core development experience building cloud‑native microservices and APIs
• Understanding of contemporary architecture principles for modularity, scalability and resilience
• Experience with containerised workloads and effective system integration techniques
• Exposure to networking and interface technologies such as REST, gRPC, JSON, XML or Protobuf
• Familiarity with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform or PostgreSQL
• Experience with CI/CD, source control and knowledge management tools such as GitLab, Jenkins or Jira

Nice to Have

• Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Information Technology or Computer Science
• Exposure to browser‑based front‑end development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React)
• Familiarity with C++ or Python in constrained computing environments

The Details

• Salary: $165,000 to $170,000 plus Superannuation
• Location: Milton, Brisbane, with flexible work‑from‑home options
• Type: Permanent
• Pay: $150,000.00 – $190,000.00 per year
• Benefits: Parental leave Salary packaging Work from home Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brisbane QLD