Sydney Tech Lead: Hands-On Delivery & Architecture

Change Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Change Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead in Sydney to drive sprint delivery and architecture decisions. You will mentor engineers, shape scalable frontend and backend solutions, and own critical performance improvements across distributed systems.

The role is hybrid (3 days in the Sydney office) with a focus on TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js in a high‑velocity product team. You will collaborate with Principal engineers and stakeholders to raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience with TS/JS stack.
• Leadership experience in an engineering squad while remaining hands-on.
• Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, GraphQL, SQL, data-access patterns.
• Experience diagnosing and improving backend, database and app performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead sprint delivery, estimation and technical planning to keep work on track.
• Design scalable, maintainable frontend/backend solutions.
• Diagnose API, database and performance issues and unblock blockers.
• Stay hands-on with production code, review PRs and mentor engineers.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React/Next.js

Hands-on leadership

Sprint planning

API design

GraphQL

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Job description

Change Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead in Sydney to drive sprint delivery and architecture decisions. You will mentor engineers, shape scalable frontend and backend solutions, and own critical performance improvements across distributed systems.

The role is hybrid (3 days in the Sydney office) with a focus on TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js in a high‑velocity product team. You will collaborate with Principal engineers and stakeholders to raise engineering standards.