
Lead Developer (AWS)
Sharp & Carter Digital & Technology Perth
Posted 3 days ago
Company Overview:
Join a fast-growing, mature tech startup focused on innovation, collaboration, and delivering value to clients. As the company expands, they offer a dynamic work environment, career progression, and a strong culture of teamwork.
The Role:
We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to guide a growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll lead backend engineers while actively contributing to the codebase. This is an exciting opportunity for a technical leader passionate about both leadership and hands-on engineering.
You’ll be responsible for managing technical execution, leading sprints, and ensuring smooth collaboration with stakeholders. We’re looking for someone with strong experience in AWS, Node.js, Typescript, Javascript, and ideally React Native/iOS.
The role requires 1-on-1 coaching, leading technical discussions, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality work while owning tickets. Strong communication, empathy, and the ability to balance leadership with team development are essential.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of backend engineers, setting an example in technical execution, decision-making, and team culture.
- Continue coding, reviewing, and solving problems while managing the team, spending about 80% of time coding and 20% on management.
- Collaborate on sprint planning to ensure work is well-defined, achievable, and aligned with business goals.
- Conduct 1-on-1s to coach, mentor, and foster career development. Keep the team aligned on technical goals and culture.
- Act as a bridge between engineering and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication on timelines, issues, and risks.
- Oversee task ownership, from estimation to delivery, ensuring accountability throughout the sprint cycle.
- Proactively address technical challenges and propose improvements to architecture, processes, and tools.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience as a technical lead or engineering manager, guiding teams and ensuring technical excellence.
- Strong experience with Node.js, Typescript, Javascript, and ideally AWS; familiarity with React Native/iOS is a plus.
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies and architecture.
- Strong communication skills to engage effectively with remote teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to empathize with the team’s challenges while maintaining high standards.
- Comfortable with Agile methodologies, sprint planning, and balancing leadership with hands-on coding.
- Experience working with remote teams (including cross-regional collaboration between Australia and Malaysia).
- Ability to solve technical issues while keeping the bigger picture in mind.
About Sharp & Carter Digital & Technology Perth
This company does not have any further information provided at this time. We encourage you to research the company by searching for them to learn more about the company or role in question before applying.
More Jobs
Lead Front-End Developer
Finsure Finance and Insurance
Lead Back-End Developer
Finsure Finance and Insurance
Lead Unity Developer
Stratton Studios
.NET Lead Developer (AWS and Kafka)
HCLTech
Lead Developer
Recruitment Hive
Principal Front-end Developer
Mane Consulting
Browse Jobs
by State
by Classification