Technical Team Lead — Remote Product & Platform Leader

Workshop; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employee Share Option Plan

Annual wellbeing allowance

Home office set-up support

4 weeks annual leave

Flexible working

Job summary

Optimal, based in Wellington, NZ, is seeking a Technical Team Lead. The ideal candidate will build and ship scalable systems while mentoring engineers and aligning closely with product teams. Responsibilities include shaping engineering strategy, improving developer productivity through AI, and leading site reliability practices. The role offers competitive salary, employee share options, annual leave, and the flexibility to work remotely from New Zealand or Australia.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and guiding technical decisions.
• Strong understanding of product outcomes and collaboration with product/design.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and high-level goals.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship scalable, reliable systems by contributing to codebase.
• Partner with technical leaders to define engineering strategy and architecture.
• Mentor engineers and create a culture of learning and feedback.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Technical leadership experience

Product mindset

Experience with our stack (React, Ruby on Rails, AWS)

Excited about AI

Tools

React

Ruby on Rails

AWS

CI/CD technologies

Job description

Optimal, based in Wellington, NZ, is seeking a Technical Team Lead. The ideal candidate will build and ship scalable systems while mentoring engineers and aligning closely with product teams. Responsibilities include shaping engineering strategy, improving developer productivity through AI, and leading site reliability practices. The role offers competitive salary, employee share options, annual leave, and the flexibility to work remotely from New Zealand or Australia.