SaaS Technical Team Lead

Summary
Multiple positions Leading squads building greenfield cloud SaaS platform supporting customers and clients worldwide.

Selling Points

• Growth phase with multiple vacancies across Client Engagement greenfield SaaS platform
• Modern tech stack including Golang, AWS, node.js 
• Hybrid working, great office space, and strong commitment to development and learning

About the Organisation
Our client has a cloud software business focused on creating a vertical SaaS platform. Their Auckland office designs and delivers a portfolio of platforms supporting clinical workflows, diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics and more. Their products enable teams to access information, insights and communications when they need them, helping to improve outcomes for their clients. The business continues to expand its platform capabilities and is scaling multiple engineering tribes to support this growth.

About the Role
Multiple opportunities exist for Technical Team Leads to guide newly formed squads within the SaaS client engagement domain. Each squad works with modern development patterns, cloud‑native architectures and automated delivery pipelines to build systems used across a global customer base.
You’ll lead a team responsible for delivering high‑quality, reliable and scalable software as an individual contributor as well as leading a small team. This includes influencing technical design, evolving engineering practices and ensuring solutions are well‑crafted, maintainable and prepared for future growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad by setting technical direction and modelling high‑quality engineering practices
• Produce technical design documentation and support architectural decision‑making
• Deliver large‑scale or complex features that are robust and fit for purpose
• Create scalable, maintainable and well‑crafted code across the stack
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Write reliable unit tests and uphold high standards of code quality
• Conduct senior‑level code reviews focused on resilience and maintainability
• Refactor low‑level framework components to improve performance and scalability
• Participate in domain‑wide technical discussions that influence the broader platform
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to address challenges related to scale, performance and user experience

Skills & Experience

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer leading delivery and quality within an engineering team.  Ideally from a SaaS environment.
• Strong capability in software design and solving complex technical problems
• Experience working with cloud technologies and modern cloud‑native architectures
• Familiarity with modern software technologies such as Go, TypeScript, node.js, Rust, Clojure etc
• Experience working with AWS cloud services
• Ability to adopt new technologies and languages regularly

• Strong understanding of OO design patterns and modular system design
• Experience building and consuming modern APIs
• Experience in scaled SaaS environments is highly desirable

Benefits

• Attractive annual incentive
• Hybrid working environment (3 days in the office 2 WFH)
• Quality tech equipment for work and personal use
• Fully subsidised Southern Cross Health Insurance

How to Apply
Apply now with your CV and cover letter. Please note, this client will consider overseas based applicants if you have ideal experience and are motivated to move to New Zealand at your cost.

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