Development Team Lead

After a year of record growth, we are investing in our engineering team to accelerate delivery of our next-generation Registry Hub architecture. We are a small, focused engineering team distributed across Australia, the UK, and the Philippines. We operate on Azure, run a large .NET monorepo alongside a newer microservices architecture, and are actively adopting AI-assisted development tooling — including Claude Code and GitHub Copilot — as a core part of how we build software.

We are looking for a Development Team Lead to lead a small team of four developers while remaining a hands-on senior engineer. This is a player-coach role: we anticipate roughly an 80/20 split between writing code and leading the team. You will spend the majority of your time building software, and the rest growing your engineers, unblocking delivery, and raising the technical bar.

You will be one of our most senior technical contributors — setting the standard for code quality, design, and AI-assisted ways of working — at the same time as owning the line management and career development of your team. You will report directly to the CTO and work closely with them on technical direction, delivery, and team growth.

Two areas matter especially for this role. First, agentic AI for coding: we are not experimenting at the edges — Claude Code and agentic development and QA workflows are central to how we build, and we want a leader who can drive that adoption from the front. Second, product integrations: a large part of our value is connecting reliably to corporate registries and third-party data sources worldwide, and to our customers’ systems, so deep, practical integration experience is important.

The right person is an excellent engineer who genuinely enjoys developing people, communicates clearly in a distributed team, and is energised by working in a domain where data quality has real regulatory consequences.

What You’ll Be Doing

Hands-On Engineering (the majority of your time)

Spend most of your time writing clean, testable, production code in .NET (C#) and SQL Server across our monorepo and newer Registry Hub services — leading by example, not from the sidelines.

Take on the most complex and ambiguous technical work, and set the standard for design, code quality, and testing across the team.

Own significant features and services end-to-end, from design through delivery and operation.

Lead architecture and design discussions, making pragmatic, well-reasoned decisions and clearly communicating the trade-offs.

Agentic AI for Coding

Drive the team’s use of Claude Code and agentic development and QA workflows — for code generation, refactoring, test writing, code review, automated regression checking, and code analysis.

Define and continuously improve the prompt engineering practices, agent configurations, and guardrails that let the team build faster without compromising quality.

Evaluate and introduce new AI tooling as the landscape evolves, and help the wider engineering organisation adopt what works.

Establish how we measure the impact of AI-assisted development on velocity and quality, and use that to guide adoption.

Product Integrations

Lead the design and delivery of integrations with third-party registry APIs and data sources, handling the complexity of varied data formats and reliability characteristics across 120 countries.

Own the patterns for resilient, observable, and maintainable integrations — retries, error handling, rate limiting, and monitoring.

Work with product and customer-facing teams to deliver integrations into customers’ systems and workflows that solve real compliance problems.

Team Leadership & People Management

Line-manage a team of four developers, including regular one-to-ones, performance management, and active career development and growth planning.

Mentor and coach engineers, giving and receiving constructive feedback through code review and day-to-day collaboration.

Own your team’s delivery — planning, prioritisation, and removing blockers — in partnership with product and the CTO.

Foster a pragmatic, high-trust, high-ownership engineering culture and help recruit and onboard new engineers as the team grows.

Delivery, Quality & Collaboration

Champion strong engineering practices: meaningful tests, safe and repeatable deployments through our Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and continuous improvement.

Work asynchronously with a distributed team across three time zones, using Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Jira.

Document technical decisions, architecture, and runbooks clearly — good written communication matters in a remote team.