Technical Lead / AI-Native Founding Engineer
We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to help scale a profitable SaaS business serving vehicle dealers across the US.
This is not a management role. We want someone who can own engineering outcomes, ship quickly, solve difficult technical problems, and improve the performance of the entire engineering team.
Candidates must possess valid Australian work rights or visa authorisation.
You will:
- Lead technical direction and code reviews
- Ship production-ready features using AI-assisted development
- Diagnose and resolve production issues
- Improve development velocity and engineering standards
- Take ownership of release quality and system reliability
Our stack:
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- React Native
- Experience with React Native is required for this role
- AWS
- AWS cloud platform experience is required for this position
- Kubernetes
- Docker experience with willingness to learn Kubernetes is sufficient for this role
- Celery
You should have:
- Deep Django and PostgreSQL expertise
- Minimum 5+ years of Django development experience
- Minimum 5+ years of PostgreSQL database experience
- Strong experience debugging production systems
- Experience scaling web applications and APIs
- A proven AI-assisted development workflow (Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Daily AI-assisted development workflow usage for at least 6+ months
- A track record of shipping quickly without sacrificing quality
This role is NOT for:
- Pure engineering managers
- Developers who need detailed specifications for every task
- Candidates who are not actively using AI in their daily workflow
- Developers who have never owned production systems
We value ownership, speed, technical excellence, and the ability to turn ideas into working products quickly.
If you're the type of engineer who can take a problem, figure it out, build it, ship it, and own the outcome, we'd like to hear from you.
Employer questionsYour application will include the following questions:
- How many years' experience do you have as a full stack developer?
- How many years' experience do you have using SQL queries?
- How many years' experience do you have as a React Native Developer?
- How many years' experience do you have as a Django Developer?
- How many years' experience do you have as a PostgreSQL Administrator?
- How many years' experience do you have as a Technical Lead Developer?
Pay: $140,000.00 – $200,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- How many years' experience do you have as a full stack developer?
- How many years' experience do you have using SQL queries?
- How many years' experience do you have as a React Native Developer?
- How many years' experience do you have as a Django Developer?
- How many years' experience do you have as a Technical Lead Developer? Or Python?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Melbourne VIC
