Technical Lead, Core Platform — AWS & Kubernetes

Betashares Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Betashares Group is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a small engineering squad responsible for backend services underpinning Betashares Direct platform. You will drive architecture decisions, code quality and deployment reliability across AWS and Kubernetes, while mentoring engineers and coordinating with product and operations teams.

You will contribute technically across design, build, review, and production improvements, ensuring scalable and secure systems that support a growing roadmap of

Qualifications

• Must have 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.

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

AWS

Kubernetes

Software design

Production operations

Stakeholder communication

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Git

Job description

Betashares Group is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a small engineering squad responsible for backend services underpinning Betashares Direct platform. You will drive architecture decisions, code quality and deployment reliability across AWS and Kubernetes, while mentoring engineers and coordinating with product and operations teams.

You will contribute technically across design, build, review, and production improvements, ensuring scalable and secure systems that support a growing roadmap of