Technical Lead

Job Title:
Technical Lead
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Backend

Experience Required:
8+ yrs of product development experience

Skills : 5+yrs working experience with Golang

Location: North Melbourne

Work from Office – 4 days per week

At Oolio, we're reimagining what hospitality software can do. From powering mission-critical payments to enabling seamless order flows across kiosks, QR, POS, and beyond—we're building the operating system for modern hospitality. We're looking for Tech Lead's to drive the technical design, delivery, and team enablement for our squads.

This is a role for an engineer who loves shipping features to customers, cares deeply about code quality and reliability, and can guide a team technically while still being on the tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guide engineering squads in decision making and problem solving
• Contribute directly to production code and help deliver reliable, scalable systems used daily by customers
• Own solution design, manage deployments, infrastructure, and repository health as a code owner.
• Shape architectural decisions, review code, and provide mentorship support
• Define scope, break down execution plans, and ensure the team meets business and customer outcomes.
• Identify and prioritise technical debt, proactively addressing performance, reliability, and developer-experience challenges.
• Lead and contribute to engineering RFCs, bringing forward new tools, patterns, and best practices to uplift our engineering capability.
• Champion fast, modern development workflows, including performant local environments, CI/CD pipelines, and rich developer tooling.
• Define, measure, and own reliability metrics (e.g., latency, error rate, uptime) for the apps
• Design, evolve, and support event-driven and distributed system architectures, ensuring scalability and consistency across services.
• Harness AI-powered tools to accelerate workflows, boost velocity, and drive innovation.
• Continuously elevate technical standards, ensuring a healthy, well-structured codebase and strong engineering culture.
• Lead by example, remaining hands-on, approachable, and focused on enabling the team to do their best work.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software development and 4+ years of experience as a senior engineer.
• Strong experience with Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines for building scalable applications.
• Designed and maintained
  Kubernetes
  manifests and Helm charts under GitOps principles, ensuring declarative, version-controlled infrastructure
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing event-driven systems for real-time, transactional workloads.
• Strong familiarity with data structures and network protocols for distributed systems (key-value stores, queues, pub/sub, streaming).
• Skilled in building high availability, eventually consistent distributed systems – ideally with exposure to secure payments or hospitality platforms.
• Strong knowledge of observability practices: monitoring, logging, tracing, anomaly detection.
• Hands-on experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing for proactive issue detection and API optimisation.
• Understanding of data mapping, flows, and sequences for external system integrations (hospitality and payments experience is a plus, but not essential).
• You have worked in product-driven companies and have a track record of driving pace and delivery
• Passionate about staying at the cutting edge of development technologies, continuously learning and experimenting with new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to improve development practices and outcomes.

Why Oolio?

• Work on mission-critical systems powering thousands of hospitality businesses.
• Join a team that values engineering excellence, autonomy, and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary, flexible work, and the chance to have real impact at scale
• Take part in our annual Hackathons, driving innovation and creativity.
• Access a yearly learning & development budget to invest in your growth.