WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Every line of code you and your team write, every architectural decision you support, and every developer you mentor directly impacts our ability to fund life-saving health programs. When your team optimises our payment processing by milliseconds,more donations flow to suicide prevention. When your team builds resilient systems, researchers get reliable data for prostate cancer breakthroughs.
This is engineering with purpose.

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE UNIQUE

You’re Not Just a Tech Lead - You’re a force multiplier who empowers developers to deliver their best work. You’ll balance deep technical expertise with genuine people mentorship, turning good developers into great ones through pair programming, thoughtful code reviews, and creating psychological safety for innovation.
Campaign Season is Your Team’s AFL Grand Final - Every October through December, our platform experiences massive scale challenges that matches the traffic of large global organisations. Think Black Friday meets social movement. While we’ve solved the basics, there’re endless opportunities for optimisation and innovation. You’ll lead your team through these high-stakes periods with grace, ensuring our global community can fundraise without friction.
AI is Your Co-Pilot, Not Your Replacement - We’re at the beginning of an exciting AI transformation journey. You’ll help shape how we integrate AI into our development processes, from advanced context engineering to MCP servers, making our small team punch well above our weight.
You Think in Horizons, Not Sprints - While your team delivers value quarterly, you’re always thinking 6-12 months ahead. You understand that today’s quick fix is tomorrow’s technical debt, and you make decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term sustainability.
Every Day is Different - One moment you’re pair programming with a junior developer, turning bug fixes into teaching moments about distributed systems. The next, you’re collaborating with Product and Marketing to translate their vision for personalised donor experiences into technical reality. You’ll help architect solutions for payment processing that handle 100x traffic spikes across 19 regulatory environments, then shift to one-on-ones where you help team members navigate the journey from monolithic to business services thinking. In our hybrid work environment, office days buzz with collaborative energy while remote days offer deep focus time.

FOR THIS ROLE YOU’LL NEED:

• 8+ years software development experience with 3+ years in senior/lead roles
• 5+ years’ experience developing across the full stack including NodeJS / React / JavaScript / TypeScript
• Proven experience with high-traffic web platforms and large-scale, high-availability systemsStrong background in AWS cloud platform and infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or serverless architecture)
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems using AWS Lambda
• Deep understanding of monitoring, observability, and incident response for production systems
• Strong understanding of automated pipelines, CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline
• Knowledge of payment processing systems and PCI DSS compliance
• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling
• Strong understanding of CSS / frameworks like bootstrap / SASS / LESS
• HTTP and REST or GraphQL
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks
• Experience working with agile development processes
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business needs into technical language
• Track record of leading teams through critical incidents and high-pressure situations