Technical Lead

TheDriveGroup; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup is seeking a Technical Lead in Melbourne to guide a small team of full-stack engineers on our growing product. You’ll shape the architecture, own key areas, and work closely with product to balance delivery with technical excellence.

Based in Melbourne, this hybrid role offers leadership responsibility, a chance to influence the platform’s direction, and meaningful opportunities to develop people while delivering high-quality software using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership experience with prior team management.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with delivery velocity.
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices and scalable systems.
• Experience guiding architecture and technical direction.
• Strong product instincts and ability to understand business context behind decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team of full-stack engineers
• Take ownership of a key area of the product and its technical direction
• Make architectural decisions and guide the team through complex technical problems
• Unblock technical, delivery and cross-team challenges
• Set a high bar for engineering quality, reliability and maintainability
• Help the team balance short-term delivery with longer-term technical improvements
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and opportunities before they become problems
• Run regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback and support developers’ career development
• Help identify where people can stretch, take on more responsibility and progress
• Partner with other engineering leaders to improve how the wider engineering organisation operates

Skills

Leadership

People development

Product instincts

Commercial context understanding

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

AI awareness

Job description

Technical Lead | Typescript & AI | Melbourne

We’re looking for a people focused Technical Lead to join a growing and well known scale up in Melbourne and lead a small team of talented software engineers. This is a role for someone who wants to stay close to technology, but who has a real interest in their team and seeing people succeed.

You’ll take ownership of a core area of a customer facing product, working across engineering and product to shape what gets built, how it gets built and where the platform needs to go next. You’ll provide technical direction, get involved in architecture and implementation, and step in when your team hits a difficult problem or needs unblocking.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and develop a small team of full-stack engineers
• Take ownership of a key area of the product and its technical direction
• Make architectural decisions and guide the team through complex technical problems
• Unblock technical, delivery and cross-team challenges
• Set a high bar for engineering quality, reliability and maintainability
• Help the team balance short-term delivery with longer-term technical improvements
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and opportunities before they become problems
• Run regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback and support engineers through their career development
• Help identify where people can stretch, take on more responsibility and progress
• Partner with other engineering leaders to improve how the wider engineering organisation operates

Required experience:

• Lead experience - you must have led or managed a team before
• Strong end to end full-stack engineering experience
• Experience working with React, TypeScript, Node.js and AWS (this should be your preferred and most experienced stack)
• Experience owning or contributing significantly to architecture and technical direction
• A strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, AI implementation and scalable systems
• Strong product instincts and an ability to understand the commercial context behind technical decisions
• The confidence to challenge, influence and collaborate with Product and Engineering stakeholders
• A genuine interest in developing people and building high-performing teams

You’ll be joining a well established scale up with a significant product, an ambitious roadmap and plenty of opportunity to make an impact. The role is based from the company’s Melbourne office on a hybrid basis.