Tech Lead

We are partnering with a global technology business to hire a Tech Lead. This is a hands on leadership role focused on production support, troubleshooting, engineering delivery, and technical direction across Point of Sale platforms supporting 70 stores today with growth toward 700 stores.

This role suits an emerging tech lead who enjoys solving complex production issues, leading technical decision making, mentoring engineers, and partnering with offshore development teams to deliver fixes and improvements. You will work closely with local technical leadership and European core product teams. This is a permanent role with hybrid work arrangement based in Melbourne, Victoria.

What You’ll Be Doing

Lead technical delivery across critical POS platforms and store systems

Provide L3 and L4 support for production incidents and platform stability

Drive root cause analysis and define long term remediation strategies

Review code behaviour and system interactions to diagnose complex issues beyond L1 and L2 support

Partner with European engineering teams to deliver fixes, patches, and enhancements

Provide technical leadership across POS, back office, and store platform initiatives

Develop back end services using Java 8 SDK and Spring Boot

Contribute to front end applications using React and TypeScript

Support integrations across enterprise systems and internal platforms

Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and engineering best practices

Improve operational efficiency by reducing recurring issues and driving continuous improvement initiatives

Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical roadmap planning

Tech Stack

Java 8, Java 21

Spring Boot

React

TypeScript

SQL

Azure

Windows and Linux environments

What We’re Looking For

Strong hands on software engineering background across Java, Spring Boot, React, and TypeScript

Experience leading technical delivery or mentoring engineering teams

Solid Java fundamentals with ability to work across legacy and modern environments

Strong troubleshooting capability across live production systems

Ability to read code, isolate faults, and work through complex technical problems

Experience across full stack development preferred

Strong communication skills with confidence working across global engineering teams

Pragmatic problem solver with ownership mindset

Comfortable operating in a fast paced retail environment

What Success Looks Like

Becomes the technical escalation point for production issues and platform stability

Builds credibility with local and European engineering teams

Drives practical improvements that reduce recurring incidents and operational overhead

Provides strong technical leadership while remaining hands on in delivery

Delivers enhancements and fixes with speed, quality, and clear ownership

Helps uplift engineering capability and contributes to long term platform scalability

Please reach out to me via ***email_hidden*** with your contact number and resume (in Microsoft word format) should you be interested.

(Tip for a successful consideration: As you prepare your application, we encourage you to carefully review the requirements associated with this role to ensure eligibility. To support a meaningful assessment of your fit, your resume should provide clear, detailed examples of your contributions, measurable impact, and relevant commercial experience that align with the role’s criteria. Please be aware that we rely solely on the information presented in your application - if specific experience or achievements are not included, we are unable to infer or assume them.)

Lastly, we will be only be able to consider candidates who are currently based in Melbourne, VIC.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hudson Hudson is committed to helping you find a workplace where you feel respected, supported, and free to thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences—because when different voices come together, amazing things happen.

Casual Loading

Please note for all Australian based contract and temporary roles only, the pay rate is inclusive of mandatory 25% casual loading. This excludes permanent and fixed term roles.