Tech Lead & Hands-On Architect - AI-Driven Systems

Momentum Consulting Group; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Momentum Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead in Auckland to own solution architecture and technical design across a squad of 4-6 engineers, while staying hands-on.

You will coach and mentor engineers, shape technical approaches with the Product Owner, and drive secure, scalable, and production-ready software, leveraging AI coding tools to boost productivity without compromising quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' software engineering experience, including delivering production systems end-to-end.
• Strong software architecture and solution design capability.
• Experience operating as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer or senior technical authority within a development team, setting engineering standards and leading code reviews.
• Strong hands-on development capability across modern languages and frameworks, plus practical experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, including reviewing and validating AI-generated code.
• Strong cloud experience across platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Strong debugging, root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• A security-by-design mindset and understanding of production-grade engineering.
• Experience mentoring and developing other engineers.
• The ability to communicate technical decisions, risks and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Owning solution architecture and technical design across the squad.
• Making key decisions around technical approaches, patterns and tooling.
• Remaining hands-on with the design, development and delivery of production software.
• Setting engineering standards and ensuring strong practices around code quality, testing, security and documentation.
• Leading code reviews, technical discussions and complex problem-solving.
• Providing technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to intermediate and junior engineers.
• Working closely with the Product Owner to provide advice around technical feasibility, effort, risk and trade-offs.
• Using and guiding the effective use of AI coding assistants and agents across the development lifecycle.
• Leading debugging and root-cause analysis across complex application and production issues.
• Ensuring solutions are secure, observable, supportable and ready for production.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

AI-assisted development

Code reviews

Tools

Claude

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Momentum Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead in Auckland to own solution architecture and technical design across a squad of 4-6 engineers, while staying hands-on.

You will coach and mentor engineers, shape technical approaches with the Product Owner, and drive secure, scalable, and production-ready software, leveraging AI coding tools to boost productivity without compromising quality.