Lead or Staff Engineer

I want to help an engineering org grow
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Work expectations

Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Melbourne
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Casual / Contract / Part-time, Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
Immediately
Development experience
7+ years
Top 3 languages or frameworks
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
Also knows
Angular, Next, Redis, Cloudflare
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote, In the office
Strengths
I'm good with delivery, making strong tradeoffs and I hav financial acumen as well. I'll shortly be starting my MBA and getting a cloud architecture certification as well as a directors certificate. I also just set up the governance to help our engineering team work with AI.
Interested in working involving

I'm looking for someone at that strategic point where they need to start scaling their product and figuring out their team. My last boss told me I'd be a gun founding engineer. I have leadership experience and have worked for startups and larger orgs in traditional ecommerce, finance, and government.

Open to full-time roles as well as part-time, fractional engineering roles

Not interested in work involving

Anything to do with betting or cryptocurrency

Other information
In this AI-Enabled era I see my job as communicating effectively, honestly, and with diplomacy. It's my view that software should be architected to allow iterative, sharp feature delivery and I'm highly skilled at setting up the structures to do that.
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
200000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
100
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to volunteering or working for equity only
Not interested in volunteering or working for equity only if joining as a co-founder

Referred by

Max Lews
Lead Engineer
April 2, 2026
  •  
I managed them directly
This developer is a sharp frontend engineer who digs into hard problems and doesn't shy away from complexity, technical or organisational. They read team dynamics well and navigate them constructively. A natural fit for a fast-moving scale-up that needs someone who is both technically strong and genuinely adaptable.

Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
I had a critical part in helping a post-series An Airtree-backed scaleup finish a big replatform and increase their delivery velocity. We set up and configured claude code and rearchitected a large b2b application over 6 months to be AI-enabled.
I'm an experienced, delivery focused full-stack leader and engineer. I've worked in a number of verticals, including Finance, Retail, and Government and also dipped my toes into the startup world, participating in a startup accelerator program's Founders Fellowship in 2022.

Technically, I have experience across the stack and can build and implement features end to end.

From an interface perspective, I've architected and built systems with React, Next, Tailwind, and Storybook.

Further down the stack, I've architected systems with event-driven, microservice, and headless architectures that use REST, GraphQL, and RPC. I've used Apollo and am familiar with Federation, Subgraphs, and optimisation with DataLoader. I've built with with AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and Vercel. I've worked with BigCommerce and Hybris ecommerce platforms and Contentful, Strapi, and Payload CMS Systems.

I value effective team building through setting strong technical direction, effective communication, and thoughtful organisation. I've helped improve delivery and improved team health, cycle time, and velocity through ways of working. I also have hands-on experience with governance and CAB processes.

I'm both experienced and excited by the use of AI to enable development and have experience using and optimising Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex. I'm particularly interested in stepping into a founding engineer or engineering management role.

Education

I'm completely self taught
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Vouched for by

Max Lews
Lead Engineer
@
Seek
I managed them directly
This developer is a sharp frontend engineer who digs into hard problems and doesn't shy away from complexity, technical or organisational. They read team dynamics well and navigate them constructively. A natural fit for a fast-moving scale-up that needs someone who is both technically strong and genuinely adaptable.
April 2, 2026

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