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Tech Lead

Squiz

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Tech Lead

Squiz is seeking an Engineering Tech Lead to oversee the Discovery team's cloud-based conversational search and content intelligence products. The role involves technical ownership of scalable, secure AWS systems, with a focus on DevSecOps, FinOps, and generative AI integration. Candidates need 8+ years of experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud-native AWS architectures.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, AU

Work Model

Remote, flexible hybrid model

Experience Required

8 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years of hands-on experience

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Node.jsTypeScriptAWSLambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBECSFargateAWS CDKTerraformCI/CDDevSecOpsAWS Well-Architected FrameworkRAGAWS Bedrock

Soft Skills

Technical mentorshipCollaborationCommunicationSystems thinkingPragmatism

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

ElasticsearchOpenSearchReactJavaScriptCSSDynatraceDataDogAWS CloudWatch

Key Responsibilities

•Take complete technical ownership of the Discovery team's services, ensuring conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound
•Design resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures, ensuring clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance
•Champion DevSecOps practices within the team, embedding automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles
•Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, seamless deployment strategies, and infrastructure reproducibility
•Act as the financial guardian (FinOps) of the domain, monitoring and optimizing AWS infrastructure spend
•Provide technical steering for Generative AI and RAG architectures, evaluating and integrating tools like AWS Bedrock
•Partner closely with the Engineering Manager to balance delivery of new product capabilities with long-term architecture health
•Collaborate with business stakeholders and Designers to deconstruct technical concepts, outline system boundaries, write user stories, and map out estimates
•Write clean, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS
•Provide supportive technical mentorship, lead architectural workshops, and run thorough code reviews

Tech LeadEngineeringCloudAWSNode.jsTypeScriptGenerative AIDevSecOpsFinOpsRemote

Key Responsibilities

•Take complete technical ownership of the Discovery team's services, ensuring conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound

•Design resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures, ensuring clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance

•Champion DevSecOps practices within the team, embedding automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles

•Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, seamless deployment strategies, and infrastructure reproducibility

•Act as the financial guardian (FinOps) of the domain, monitoring and optimizing AWS infrastructure spend

•Provide technical steering for Generative AI and RAG architectures, evaluating and integrating tools like AWS Bedrock

•Partner closely with the Engineering Manager to balance delivery of new product capabilities with long-term architecture health

•Collaborate with business stakeholders and Designers to deconstruct technical concepts, outline system boundaries, write user stories, and map out estimates

•Write clean, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS

•Provide supportive technical mentorship, lead architectural workshops, and run thorough code reviews