Technical Lead

Pepper Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Spice Rewards program

Hybrid working model

Health insurance discounts

Novated leasing

Staff loans

Referral bonus

Job summary

Pepper Money is seeking a Technical Lead - Digital on a 12-month fixed-term contract in Sydney. You will provide technical leadership across mobile apps and a web portal, guiding engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions while collaborating with product, architecture and delivery teams.

You’ll shape technical direction, uplift capability, and drive continuous improvement across Pepper's digital ecosystem, with hands-on leadership, strong Azure/API experience, and a commitment

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering customer-facing mobile and web apps.
• Expertise in React Native, Expo, TypeScript, React, and modern JS.
• Experience with Azure API Management and cloud integration.
• Knowledge of Azure Integration Services (Functions, Service Bus, Logic Apps).
• Experience implementing authentication using OAuth/OpenID with MSAL/AAD.
• Strong CI/CD, DevSecOps, testing, monitoring, and operations.
• Experience leading distributed teams and working with product, security, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction across mobile, web, and API ecosystems.
• Uplift engineering capability and ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence.

Skills

Technical leadership

React Native

TypeScript

JavaScript

Azure cloud

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Security best practices

Tools

Azure API Management

Logic Apps

Service Bus

Function Apps

Job description

Description

Who We Are

At Pepper Money, we're dedicated to helping people succeed, whether it's buying a family home, a dream car, developing professionally, or growing their business. We've become one of the largest, most trusted, and award-winning non-bank lenders in Australia and New Zealand. Over our 26 years, we've achieved a lot, but our proudest accomplishment is helping over half a million Australians reach their goals with our ever-expanding lending options.

The Role

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract where you'll play a key role in shaping the future of Pepper's customer-facing digital platforms. As our Technical Lead - Digital, you'll provide technical leadership across our mobile applications and web customer portal, guiding engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing solutions. Working closely with product, architecture and delivery teams, you'll help set technical direction, uplift engineering capability and drive continuous improvement across our digital ecosystem.

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead delivering large-scale customer-facing mobile and web applications.
• Extensive experience developing and leading solutions using React Native, Expo, TypeScript, React and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, native platform capabilities (iOS and Android), app store release processes and mobile security best practices.
• Demonstrated experience integrating mobile and web applications with enterprise APIs using Azure API Management (APIM) and cloud-native integration platforms.
• Experience working with Azure Integration Services, including API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Function Apps and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience implementing authentication and identity solutions using MSAL, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Azure AD B2C or Microsoft Entra External ID.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, monitoring and cloud-native operational practices.
• Experience leading distributed teams and working effectively across product, architecture, security, delivery and vendor partners.

About you

You're a technically hands-on leader who thrives on solving complex business and technology challenges while enabling high-performing teams to deliver exceptional outcomes. You bring deep experience delivering customer-facing digital platforms across mobile, web and API ecosystems, with the ability to balance strategic technology direction, architecture governance and day-to-day delivery leadership. Most importantly, you're passionate about engineering excellence, building capability in others, and creating secure, scalable and customer-centric solutions.

• Significant experience leading the design and delivery of customer-facing digital products, including mobile applications, web portals and API-driven platforms.
• Strong hands-on expertise in React Native, Expo, React, JavaScript and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of modern frontend and mobile architecture patterns.
• Proven experience designing scalable and maintainable solutions across mobile, web, cloud and integration platforms.
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade API solutions using Azure API Management (APIM) and integrating with backend services through modern API and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services, including Azure Integration Services, Functions, Service Bus, Logic Apps and related cloud-native technologies.
• Experience implementing secure authentication and identity solutions using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, MSAL, Azure AD B2C and/or Microsoft Entra External ID.
• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, native platform capabilities (iOS and Android), mobile security, application performance and App Store/Google Play deployment processes.
• Deep knowledge of modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, monitoring and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical decision-making, architecture governance and solution design across complex digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to business leaders, product teams, architects, engineers and external delivery partners.
• Proven ability to mentor, coach and develop engineers while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced Agile delivery environments and managing competing priorities, technical risks and delivery dependencies.
• Experience within financial services, lending, banking or other highly regulated industries will be highly regarded.

At Pepper Money, collaboration is just as vital as your skills. Our values are the heartbeat of our success, driving everything we do:

Can Do: We think outside the box and harness the power of teamwork to achieve the extraordinary.
Balanced: We set our customers up for success, crafting win-win outcomes that are both human and profitable.
Real: We keep it honest and respect everyone, building genuine connections.

Our Benefits

At Pepper, we're dedicated to making this a fantastic place to work and supporting you every step of the way. Enjoy a values-driven, diverse environment with a leadership team that inspires success and a culture that rewards excellence. We're always finding new ways to make Pepper a place for everyone:

• Development: a full suite of development opportunities and a great team to learn from
• Recognition: Celebrate efforts with our Spice Reward and Recognition Program and diversity through our DE&I initiatives
• Flexibility: Embrace our hybrid working model, flexible parental leave policies and purchased leave options
• Health and Wealth: Free gym membership, discounted health insurance policies, novated leasing and staff loan rates to manage your mind, body and wallet!
• Referral Bonus: Earn $2000 for referring great people.

Pepper is proud of our inclusive and diverse workplace that we have built over the last 26 years. Diversity is embedded in our people practices, the way we communicate and connect with each other, and it is recognised throughout our values.