Technical Lead: Cloud-Native Backend on AWS & Kubernetes

Employment Hero; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Betashares is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer a 4-6 person engineering team across AWS and Kubernetes. You will direct design, build, and operation of production services, while improving reliability, observability and deployment practices.

You will balance scalability and maintainability, review code, mentor engineers and drive delivery quality in a fast-paced financial services environment. On-site, Melbourne-based role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery for a software engineering team.
• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating software in AWS.
• Strong practical experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong software engineering capability, including system design, code review, testing and production operations.
• Experience owning or supporting multiple production services, including reliability, observability and maintainability.
• Ability to make sound technical trade-offs and communicate decisions clearly with engineers and stakeholders.
• Developed production services in Rust.
• Engineered AI-enabled software products.
• Worked in financial services or similarly regulated, high-reliability environments.
• Line management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of a team of 4-6 engineers, setting direction and aligning engineering work to agreed outcomes.
• Provide hands-on technical contribution across the design, build, review and improvement of production services.
• Guide technical decisions across multiple services, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability and delivery trade-offs.
• Own and improve engineering practices across AWS and Kubernetes environments, including deployment, observability and operational readiness.
• Help the team plan and sequence technical work, identifying dependencies, risks and service-level impacts.
• Support engineers through technical coaching, design feedback and code review.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, documentation and production support.
• Drive continuous improvement across the services the team owns by addressing recurring technical, operational and delivery issues.

Skills

Leadership experience

AWS

Kubernetes production

System design

Reliability observability

Code review delivery

Trade-off decisions

Tools

Rust

Job description

Betashares is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer a 4-6 person engineering team across AWS and Kubernetes. You will direct design, build, and operation of production services, while improving reliability, observability and deployment practices.

You will balance scalability and maintainability, review code, mentor engineers and drive delivery quality in a fast-paced financial services environment. On-site, Melbourne-based role.