Web Tech Lead: AI-Driven, High-Traffic Platform

Mecca Brands; Richmond Shire; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MECCA Brands is seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to guide a web squad responsible for a large, high-traffic retail site. You will mentor engineers, contribute to design and delivery, and apply AI-assisted development with strong emphasis on quality, security, and user experience.

You will work closely with a Product Manager, Designer and QA, driving architecture decisions and release readiness while staying hands-on and focused on customer value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production-grade web applications and at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience defining and embedding a new workflow within a team.
• Experience maintaining a large, high-traffic website and understanding release risk.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience, ideally across Next.js, React and GraphQL (Apollo).
• Experience designing and developing backend services and APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Strong system design skills and engineering best practices, including CI/CD, Git workflows and automated testing (unit, integration and E2E).
• Experience with cloud-native environments, preferably AWS.
• Knowledge of web performance, accessibility and SEO principles.
• Practical experience applying AI across the software development lifecycle, such as AI-assisted development, testing, code review and agentic workflows, with guardrails.
• Experience with .NET or C#-based backends.
• Experience supporting mobile applications or React Native integrations.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures, containers and infrastructure-as-code in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers in your squad and foster a culture of ownership and learning.
• Stay hands-on in development, contributing to design, architecture and delivery.
• Collaborate with Product, Designer and QA to craft clear requirements and designs.
• Run technical spikes to test ideas before committing.
• Review PRs, lead code reviews and pair programming to lift code quality.
• Set code quality standards and engineering best practices.
• Improve CI/CD and automated testing, and manage release risk.
• Address production issues calmly and effectively and monitor performance.

Skills

People leadership

Hands-on engineering

System design

CI/CD practices

Web performance

Accessibility

SEO

AI in SDLC

Communication

Tools

AWS

Serverless

Containers

Git

Docker

Next.js

React

GraphQL

Apollo

REST API

Job description

MECCA Brands is seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to guide a web squad responsible for a large, high-traffic retail site. You will mentor engineers, contribute to design and delivery, and apply AI-assisted development with strong emphasis on quality, security, and user experience.

You will work closely with a Product Manager, Designer and QA, driving architecture decisions and release readiness while staying hands-on and focused on customer value.