Backend Technical Lead - AWS / TypeScript

Lead a team building next-gen payment systems at massive scale. Join Zellers growing engineering team of 150 as a backend focussed Tech Lead combining hands-on technical contribution with people leadership.

Youll manage a fully remote squad of engineers while working in Zeller's payments area to build and scale our acquiring platform to new markets.

Leading your team from the front and staying deeply technical as a player-coach, this role offers the opportunity for high impact technical leadership with formal people management responsibilities.

About The Team :

Zellers Payments BFF team builds the customer-facing APIs and systems that enable millions of payments to Australian businesses each month.

Working with product managers, designers and other engineering groups, your new backend team is building and scaling some of Zellers core product areas like terminal and ecommerce payments, settlements and more.

What You'll Do : Technical Leadership & System Ownership :

• Drive architectural solutions collaboratively with your team and engineering leadership, to build and scale Zellers payments platform.
• Write production code regularly as a core contributor while maintaining oversight of your team's technical deliverables.
• Own operational excellence for your teams systems including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Champion modern development practices including active use of LLMs within your team and the adoption of technical practices at Zeller.
• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, identifying skill gaps, managing personal development plans and fostering a positive culture of learning, ownership, and psychological safety.
• Partner closely with product managers as joint owners of your product success, contributing technical and delivery insight to shape what gets built.

What We're Looking For :

Technical Background :

You should be comfortable writing production Typescript code, but experience with our full tech-stack is not an expectation.

Some tools we use :

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