Engineering Team Lead | .NET + React

Engineering Team Lead | .NET + React | $210k + SuperSydney Hybrid | 2 days per week onsiteI'm hiring an Engineering Team Lead for an established, global SaaS business.This is a genuine player-coach role.You'll lead a team of 4-8 engineers while spending 40-60% of your time still building the product yourself.You'll be responsible for:Leading and managing a team of 4-8 engineers, owning their growth, performance and deliveryStaying hands-on as a senior engineer, designing, building and enhancing the productSetting the technical bar for your team and growing the engineers around youLeading and expanding the use of AI within an AI-driven SDLC, raising the bar for how the team builds software with agentic toolsPartnering closely with product managers on the how, the why and the when of what gets builtBuilding accurate delivery estimates and making sure the team consistently meets its commitmentsMonitoring issues and risks, proactively seeking solutions, and being part of the solutionWhat we're looking for:Prior experience leading engineers with direct reports. Or, without the title, significant and demonstrable evidence of up-levelling teams and peer engineersExtremely clear communication, with a strong ability to influence and persuade decisions even when you're not directly in chargeA track record of taking on hard, risky work that has sometimes failed, and of owning the result and building towards successStrong C# .Net + React ( Angular or Vue etc considered) Full-stack capability, comfortable across backend technologies as well as the front endStrong, demonstrable use of agentic engineering tools and techniques such as Claude Code, Codex or similarTech environmentC# / .NETReactAngular across the legacy frontendAI-assisted engineering with tools such as Claude CodeEstablished SaaS product with significant new feature developmentThis role will suit someone who enjoys ownership, ambiguity and solving difficult problems, rather than waiting for someone else to define every step.