Lead Software Engineer

Elevate your career at Entelect, where we prioritise people and nurture a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Join a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that encourages versatility, and provides individual attention to career development, including intentional and regular one-on-ones with leadership.

Tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact alongside passionate professionals who inspire and support each other.

What You'll Be Doing:

Delivery:

• Leveraging your expertise to lead the development of world-class web and mobile applications for leading organisations in Australia.

• Driving technical direction and architectural decisions across projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Exploring methods to enhance product quality through containerisation and continuous integration, fostering a streamlined DevOps culture.

• Leading various stages of the SDLC, from system design to analysis, scoping, and estimation.

• Researching innovative technologies and championing their implementation to drive innovation.

People:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of engineers, fostering technical excellence and accountability.

• Demonstrating maturity, motivation, and leadership in the workplace.

• Championing change within the team and fostering a collaborative culture.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex business challenges, driving continuous improvement.

• Setting the standard for code quality, engineering practices, and technical decision-making.

• Providing guidance and career development support to team members through regular check-ins.

Customer:

• Building strong relationships and understanding customer needs to deliver impactful solutions.

• Acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients and stakeholders.

• Managing customer expectations and identifying opportunities for service improvements.

• Ensuring compliance with data security and industry regulations.

What We Need from You:

• A bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, or related fields.

• Minimum 8+ years' experience as a software engineer, including proven experience in a technical leadership or lead engineer capacity.

• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring a delivery team together with other disciplines to successfully deliver a product.

• A hunger to continually improve those around you through mentorship, guidance, and awareness of what drives those on your team.

• A solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and commitment to clean code and best practices.

• Mastery of various technologies with the agility to adapt to new frameworks.

• Proven ability to architect and structure projects within an enterprise environment.

• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills.

• Experience making pragmatic technical trade-offs and driving consensus across teams.

• Pro hybrid working model working from the office on average 2–3 times per week.

• A strong customer-facing ability.

• Flexibility to work across a variety of different environments and tooling.

What You'll Get from Us:

• Hybrid working environment

• $400 work-from-home setup allowance

• Birthday leave

• Hands-on support from leadership through regular one-on-ones and quarterly reviews.

• Continuous development programs offering training in leadership and technical skills.

Tech Stacks We Use:
Popular but not limited to

• Backend: Java (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security), .NET/C#

• Frontend tech: Angular, React, Vue, Blazor

• ORM Tools: Entity Framework Core / Entity Framework, Hibernate/JPA

• APIs: RESTful services, GraphQL, microservices architecture

• Relational databases: PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle

• Non-relational databases: MongoDB, Cosmos DB

• Unit Testing: JUnit, NUnit, xUnit

• Cloud environments: AWS, Azure, GCP

• IAC: Terraform, Bicep, AWS CDK

• Event-based messaging queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS

• Containerisation & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

• DevOps: Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

Ready to Make Your Next Move?

If you want to work somewhere people come first, projects push you, and growth is constant, apply now.

Let’s build something exceptional together.

Not quite ready but eager to learn more? Head to the Culture Site and complete the form to set up an exploratory chat. Our team understands that good things take time and are happy to wait until that time is right for you.

Please note: Only candidates with Australian citizenship, permanent residency, or full working rights will be considered.