Technical Lead — Hybrid, Build Scalable Systems

Flight Centre Travel Group

Brisbane

Hybrid

AUD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is seeking a Technical Lead to steer the design and development of scalable technology solutions within an Agile team. You will work closely with engineering, product and business stakeholders, mentoring developers and championing engineering excellence in a fast-paced hybrid environment.

You will drive technical direction, support team growth, and help shape modern, scalable tech solutions while guiding adoption of best practices.

Qualifications

7+ years of professional experience in a senior software engineering role.
Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent industry experience.
Demonstrated understanding of Agile principles and processes.
Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices.
Experience designing and delivering scalable, maintainable software solutions.
Proven ability to coach, mentor and lead engineering teams.
Commercially minded approach with the ability to deliver business value.
Strong prioritisation, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of technical solutions within an Agile team.
Partner with stakeholders to support solution discovery and align outcomes to business objectives.
Identify technical capability gaps and collaborate with architects and other technical specialists to address them.
Coach, mentor and develop engineers to build technical capability and team performance.
Create technical goals and enable teams to achieve them.
Drive engineering best practices, secure coding standards and continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote Agile ways of working, including continuous delivery and test automation.
Manage and reduce technical debt while ensuring solutions remain supported and maintainable.
Guide teams through technical challenges and problem-solving activities.
Support modern architectural approaches including microservices, event-driven architecture and serverless solutions.
Ensure production solutions maintain strong uptime, reliability and availability.