Tech Lead - Hybrid

At Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.

We’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.

You’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.

Transparency at every level: Monthly Allhands meetings share key company metrics, updates, and customer stories. We also spotlight a team member’s “Life Story” each month - it’s one of the ways we stay connected as a global team.

High velocity, low friction: Our systems are modern and fully integrated, so you’ll spend your time solving problems - not fighting tools.

Performance-driven growth: Seven of our last ten pay increases were made proactively, based on impact and results.

True flexibility: We focus on outcomes, not hours. You’ll have autonomy to manage your time and work where you perform best - with no time monitoring or unnecessary meetings.

Collaboration: You’ll work closely with other teams - engineering, product, design, marketing, and customer success - to move fast and deliver meaningful results.

Sydney HQ perks - rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers, and cycle storage in Haymarket

Melbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms, opposite Southern Cross station

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Sitemate welcomes people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities, and abilities.

55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, 43% identify as female, and our team spans ages 22–51. We believe our diversity makes us stronger - and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

🎧 Podcasts:

2024: CEO Hartley Pike on scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture

2023: CMO Lance Hodgson on accelerating your career

2022: CTO Tim Bray on building quality features that solve real customer problems

💬 Want to know what it’s like to work at Sitemate? Hear it straight from the team : People of Sitemate ⭐ Read what our customers say: G2 Crowd , Trust Radius 🎥 Team Offsites: 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025

You'll set the technical direction for a team attached to a product. You'll drive RFCs and Decision Logs, make the architectural calls, and be the escalation path when engineers hit something they can't solve.

You'll work across frontend, backend, and mobile: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Angular, MongoDB, and AWS. You don't need to be an expert in all of these, but you're deep enough across the stack to make calls with confidence and defend them.

Forward Deployed Engineering. You'll ground the team's technical decisions in customer impact and real signals, connecting architectural choices to product outcomes rather than technical elegance. Your job is to provide the guardrails that let the team ship quality features at velocity, not to slow things down in the name of correctness.

Agentic Engineering. You'll set the technical standards for AI-assisted development in your team: the guardrails, the review patterns, and the quality bar that ensure AI-generated code meets the same production-readiness standard as anything hand-written. Strong foundations matter more in the AI era, because AI amplifies both good and bad codebases and unresolved tech debt now compounds faster than ever.

Drive Decision Logs and RFCs, and make architectural decisions that balance quality, velocity, and simplicity.

Hold the line on engineering standards: test coverage, PR quality, deployment practices. Raise the bar on code review both as a reviewer and by coaching others to review well.

Run technical initiatives end-to-end. Lead the direction, break down and distribute the work, and drive it to completion rather than letting it linger in the background.

Lead diagnosis of complex, cross-service production issues, and drive improvements to observability, error handling, and logging.

Act as the technical focal point inside and outside the team, and the escalation path when engineers are stuck.

Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and informal guidance, building redundancy so there are no single points of failure in knowledge.

Identify and call out technical risk: debt, scalability, security. Escalate when a risk needs decisions or resources beyond the team.

Write code and ship features. This is still a hands-on role.

High technical complexity beneath simple UIs. Shared components run across multiple products, and backend services power both web and mobile clients.

Split attention. Roughly 50% goes to technical initiatives, with the rest across product delivery, reviews, and mentoring. Deciding what gets your time is a constant judgement call.

Influence over authority. You set the standards for engineers you don't manage, since people management sits with the Engineering Manager. You get there through credibility and coaching.

Pace. Fast-Tracked is a real operating value, so you'll need to balance speed with quality and sustainable delivery.

Organisational maturity. Engineering leadership, frameworks, and career ladders are still being established, so you'll be building the plane while flying it.

You've built and shipped at scale and want to own technical direction, not just execute against it.

You want to stay hands-on. This is not a step out of the code.

You're excited about agentic engineering and want to define the standards for it, not just use the tools.

You care about mentoring. Helping others grow is as important to you as your own output.

You're comfortable being the person who says "not like that", and then shows a better way.

You're drawn to real-world impact. Our users build wind farms, highways, and mines in 100+ countries.

You want to move into people management. Tech Leads don't have direct reports here, that's the Engineering Manager role. If your goal is 1:1s, performance, and headcount, this is the wrong seat.

You want to step back from writing code and live in architecture diagrams and reviews. Tech Leads lead from inside the work.

You optimise for technical elegance over customer outcomes. Architecture here has to earn its keep.

You see AI tooling as a nice-to-have. Agentic engineering is our direction and Tech Leads are expected to set the bar for it.

Experience running technical initiatives or platform work end-to-end

Experience writing RFCs or decision records that others actually used

Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Angular, MongoDB, or AWS

Mobile development experience

Experience in a scale-up or high-growth product environment

TypeScript / JavaScript

React or Angular

Node.js

AWS or a comparable cloud platform

MongoDB

React Native / mobile

Observability tooling (HyperDX, Datadog, Bugsnag, Sentry)

Infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform)

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