Brilliant opportunity to shape architecture, drive innovation, and stay hands-on with a global SaaS leader!
Why You’d Like It
If you’re a seasoned engineer who loves the "lead by example" approach, this is your sweet spot. You’ll get to stay deep in the code while steering the technical roadmap for a high-growth SaaS platform. It’s the perfect blend of high-level architectural influence and hands-on building with a modern, cloud-native stack.
The Story
Due to a period of sustained high growth, there is a need for a technical heavy-hitter to step into a leadership role within one of the core agile chapters. This isn’t about maintaining legacy systems; it’s about driving innovation, advocating for engineering excellence, and ensuring the platform scales alongside a rapidly expanding global user base.
Company Profile
This is a New Zealand success story operating in the tech space. They are a high-growth SaaS provider dedicated to using cutting-edge tools and cloud-native software engineering to solve complex, real-world problems. The culture is built on self-managed agile teams where positive, motivated people actually enjoy collaborating and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Your Role
As a Technical Lead, you’ll spend about 70% of your time as a hands-on specialist and 30% providing the technical vision and mentorship that helps your team thrive.
Benefits
You are an engineer at heart, ideally with experience in Technical Leadership, who is considered a technical expert by your peers. You likely have a background in building complex, event-driven architectures and feel right at home in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Does this sound like it could be the next role for you? Apply now!
If you’re a seasoned engineer who loves the "lead by example" approach, this is your sweet spot. You’ll get to stay deep in the code while steering the technical roadmap for a high-growth SaaS platform. It’s the perfect blend of high-level architectural influence and hands-on building with a modern, cloud-native stack.
The Story
Due to a period of sustained high growth, there is a need for a technical heavy-hitter to step into a leadership role within one of the core agile chapters. This isn’t about maintaining legacy systems; it’s about driving innovation, advocating for engineering excellence, and ensuring the platform scales alongside a rapidly expanding global user base.
Company Profile
This is a New Zealand success story operating in the tech space. They are a high-growth SaaS provider dedicated to using cutting-edge tools and cloud-native software engineering to solve complex, real-world problems. The culture is built on self-managed agile teams where positive, motivated people actually enjoy collaborating and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Your Role
As a Technical Lead, you’ll spend about 70% of your time as a hands-on specialist and 30% providing the technical vision and mentorship that helps your team thrive.
- Lead the Design: Take accountability for the architecture and implementation of specific features within the SaaS application, ensuring they are scalable and high-availability.
- Drive Excellence: Mentor your team through peer reviews and advocate for best practices in continuous delivery and full automation.
- Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with Product Owners and Architects to develop a technical roadmap that balances new value with the steady reduction of technical debt.
- Innovate & Research: Stay ahead of the curve by evaluating new toolchains, cloud-native products, and future technologies to keep the stack modern.
- Quality First: Take ownership of the 4key DORA metrics and drive the tuning, scalability, and performance testing of your team's outputs.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Package: A competitive salary range + benefits on offer.
- Modern Tech Stack: Work extensively with Java on AWS, Microservices, and Kubernetes.
- Flexible Working: 1 day WFH per week, with flexible working hours to support your work-life balance.
- Growth Environment: Be part of a company in high growth mode with plenty of room for professional advancement.
You are an engineer at heart, ideally with experience in Technical Leadership, who is considered a technical expert by your peers. You likely have a background in building complex, event-driven architectures and feel right at home in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Tech Stack: Strong proficiency in Java and relevant frameworks, specifically within an AWS environment.
- Architectural Savvy: Deep experience with Microservices, RESTful services, and Domain Driven Design (DDD).
- DevOps Mindset: You’re a fan of trunk-based development, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Soft Skills: You’re a collaborator and a great communicator who can translate complex technical designs into documentation the whole team can follow.
Does this sound like it could be the next role for you? Apply now!
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If this sounds like you please reach out to me at
kate@digitalgarage.co.nz
kate@digitalgarage.co.nz