Lead Engineer

Preacta Recruitment
AustraliaFull time

Listed 5 Oct 2026

Are to the type to Technical Lead Engineer who is motivated by working with the most current technology, for a company that values technology as critical to its success as an industry leader? Then this role is for you. You will bring experience building scalable cloud-native solutions, leveraging agentic AI, and ideally a strong Fintech, banking, or product background.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing, building and delivering Java cloud applications, with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot and relational databases
  • Hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS and/or GCP
  • Strong grasp of microservices and service-oriented architecture, and the ability to design systems that scale and stay resilient
  • Working knowledge of containers, APIs, SQL/NoSQL, event streaming, TDD, Continuous Delivery and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or Gemini CLI
  • A track record of delivering high-performing, maintainable systems in complex environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience mentoring and developing engineers
  • An understanding of security, privacy, regulatory requirements and technology lifecycle management

Role

  • Lead the technical execution and delivery of projects and strategic initiatives across the wealth platform
  • Own delivery from start to finish, from architecture and design through to production deployment and keeping systems running reliably
  • Work with engineers, product managers and business analysts to set priorities and manage dependencies and risks
  • Make the key technical design decisions and write code for critical components and proofs of concept
  • Own platform reliability, including key risk indicators (KRIs), service level objectives (SLOs), incident management and root cause analysis
  • Push for high engineering standards across the team
  • Mentor engineers through coaching, feedback and knowledge sharing