Technical Lead

at a 
Wellbeing and impact startup
Type of role:  
Permanent
Location
Sydney, Hybrid
Pay
Competitive market rate salary
Equity provided
Yes
Working style
Hybrid
Team size
1-5
Seniority
Senior / Lead
Main skills
AWS cloud architecture, event-driven microservices experience, DevOps proficiency, and proven leadership in fast-paced startup environments
Company's funding stage
Seed
Date posted
October 31, 2025

About the company

Our company exists to get people moving — for their health and for the planet. We're building a platform that turns everyday movement into real-world impact. As an early-stage team, we move fast, experiment hard, and obsess over making behaviour change effortless (and fun!). Our engineers thrive on solving challenging problems using modern event-driven architectures and cloud-native principles built for security, reliability and scale.

Why Join Us

  • Influence the technical direction of a rapidly growing product
  • Work with a small but accomplished, high-performing team that values experimentation and impact
  • Enjoy flexible work arrangements and ownership over your work
  • Opportunity to learn and grow with cutting-edge technologies
  • Competitive salary + equity options in a funded startup

About the job

As the Technical Lead, you will play a hands-on leadership role in designing, implementing, and scaling our backend platform hosted on AWS. You'll lead a small team of passionate engineers, make crucial architectural decisions, and ensure best practices in delivery, performance, and security.You will also collaborate closely with product and frontend teams, especially as we evolve our mobile app and web-based organisation portal.

You will also collaborate closely with product and frontend teams, especially as we evolve our mobile app and web-based organisation portal.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design, implementation, and deployment of event-driven microservices
  • Drive architecture discussions and translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Provide technical mentorship, code reviews, and guidance to the development team
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud operations on AWS
  • Maintain observability, reliability, and performance of distributed systems
  • Collaborate with product, design, and mobile teams to enable seamless integration with frontend components
  • Champion engineering excellence, coding standards, and sustainable processes for rapid product growth

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience

  • Advanced proficiency in distributed, microservices development
  • Strong understanding of event-based architectures (SNS/SQS highly preferred)
  • Experience designing and deploying scalable services on AWS (e.g., ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)
  • Solid grasp of DevOps principles, CI/CD, containerisation, and infrastructure as code
  • Built and maintained scalable, production grade APIs and backend systems for enterprise environments
  • Track record of delivery in startup environments or early-stage engineering teams
  • Proven leadership skills, with experience mentoring other engineers or leading a small team
  • Familiarity with observability tools, distributed tracing, logging, and metrics
  • Data or AI engineering experience

Nice to Have

  • Experience developing web scale APIs with Java and Spring Boot
  • Experience developing Flutter apps or integrating with Flutter-based frontends
  • Experience with web development using modern Javascript/Typescript frameworks
  • Experience integrating with Auth0 or similar IDPs
  • Experience with Terraform or CDK
  • Experience integrating with Health APIs (such as Apple Health, Google Health Connect, TerraAPI, Sahha etc)

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