Lead Developer

Crescent Consulting; Christchurch; Remote; NZD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading SaaS company as a Lead Developer, where you'll mentor a small engineering team and contribute to scalable systems. This remote role offers flexibility and the chance to shape technology and culture in a rapidly growing environment. Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including private health insurance and a supportive team culture.

Benefits

Private health insurance

Flexible remote working

Birthdays off

Wellness support

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or mentoring developers.
• Solid understanding of modern web architecture and DevOps.
• Calm problem-solver under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support the engineering team.
• Ensure systems are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Troubleshoot production issues and lead architecture discussions.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Serverless

Job description

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Join an ambitious, bootstrapped SaaS company with a mission to empower changemakers through beautifully designed, interactive learning content. They are entering an exciting new growth phase—and are looking for a talented Lead Developer to help take them to the next level.

This is a remote role based anywhere in New Zealand, offering flexibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to have a significant impact on the product, team, and technology as they scale.

About the Role

As Lead Developer, you’ll work closely with the Head of Technology to guide and support the small but capable engineering team (currently four developers). This role balances hands-on technical contributions with leadership and mentorship responsibilities.

You’ll play a pivotal part in ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and secure, while supporting your team to grow and thrive. Whether it’s troubleshooting production issues under pressure, leading architecture discussions, or mentoring developers—you’ll be the calm, solutions-focused leader who keeps things moving forward.

The intention is to bring on a Senior/Lead Developer that can grow into Tech Lead.

Key Responsibilities

Backend: Ruby on Rails

Infrastructure: Serverless (e.g., Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Workers)

About You

Proven experience leading or mentoring developers in a technical environment

Solid understanding of modern web architecture, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Calm and confident problem-solver, especially under pressure during production incidents

Excellent communication skills to work across technical and non-technical teams

Bonus: familiarity with Rails, serverless deployments, security and compliance (e.g., SOC2), or SaaS/startup experience

What's in it for you?

Play a key role in shaping the technology and culture of a scaling SaaS company

Comprehensive benefits including private health insurance (Southern Cross Tier One)

Flexible remote working from anywhere in NZ

Birthdays off, wellness support, and a highly supportive, collaborative team

Join a collaborative, values-driven company where your ideas and leadership will directly shape the next stage of growth.

Apply now or get in touch with [e-mail] for more info.

If you're interested in this role but don’t tick every box listed, we’d still love to hear from you! Our clients value diversity and inclusion, recognising that each person brings a distinct blend of expertise, abilities and experience. We champion an inclusive workplace where all employees have equal access to opportunities. We recognize Mana Māori and mātauranga Māori as valuable professional expertise.

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