Hybrid Technical Lead – React Native, Node.js

at Sitemate

• Job title: Technical Lead – React Native, Node.js
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: A$160,000 - A$220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, DynamoDB, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, React, React Native, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Tech Lead with mobile/full-stack experience at Sitemate developing impactful software features. Collaborating with a cross-functional team for architectural vision and product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of our two mobile products and their backend services - from architecting new features to improving performance and code quality.
• Own and drive the technical vision, ensuring all work aligns with long-term architecture and product strategy.
• Mentor and support engineers on the mobile team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and other Engineering teams to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Take the lead on diagnosing and resolving production issues, leveraging tools like Bugsnag and Datadog, and coordinating hotfixes with speed and precision.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD, performance monitoring, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• Javascript/Typescript experience is preferred.
• React Native experience is preferred.
• Node, Serverless & AWS experience a bonus.
• MongoDB & DynamoDB experience is a bonus.
• Native mobile experience is a bonus

Benefits

• Check out Sitemate’s team at the offsite: Sitemate Offsite 2022, Sitemate Offsite 2023 & recently Sitemate Offsite 2024
• You can see what people really think about working at Sitemate here: Working at Sitemate
• 2024 Podcast: CEO Hartley Pike on his personal journey, scaling Sitemate, diversity and culture at sitemate
• 2023 Podcast: Listen to CMO Lance Hodgson’s tips on how to supercharge your career
• 2022 Podcast: Listen to CEO Hartley Pike speak about the company’s founding and broader Go To Market strategy
• 2022 Podcast: Listen to CTO Tim Bray speak about building high quality features that solve customer problems at Sitemate
• We have equal opportunity for applicants of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities & people with disabilities - Sitemate's team is proudly diverse and accessible. 55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. 43% identify as female. Our team ranges in age from 22 to 51 years old.
• We're proud to have a global team with team members from Australia, Kenya, Brazil, France, Chile, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Vietnam, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.
• Our Sydney office in Haymarket has fantastic on-site facilities including a rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers and cycle storage. The transport connections are excellent. Every Monday, the team enjoys a catered lunch together from one of the many nearby options.
• You will be remunerated based on your performance. If you are performing well, you won’t need to wait 3 years or have to find better offers elsewhere to receive an increase to your remuneration. 7 out of the last 10 remuneration increases for Sitemate team members have been made pro-actively by management, without the individual needing to even raise the topic of remuneration.
• You will get a laptop and a budget to set up your home office.
• You will have visibility into the standardised career development plan for your role, and access to a professional learning and development budget.
• You will get additional benefits and support as parents - with paid leave for both primary (min. 16 weeks) and secondary carers (min. 6 weeks) including adoption, as well as support and leave for the tragic circumstances of stillbirth or miscarriage.
• You will have 20 days PTO, as well as paid compassionate & bereavement leave, sick & carer’s leave, and the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks per year.
• You will get equity options and ownership in Sitemate on a standard vesting schedule. See here for a general overview of how this works.
• Sitemate has grown from 5 employees in 2018 to 150+, and we’re moving into the next stage of growth! We have a product that customers are strongly engaged with, and every month we get 1000s of new leads in our core/target regions with 0 cold calling and limited marketing spend (made possible by strong word-of-mouth and organic marketing efforts).
• Sitemate’s founders have diverse backgrounds - one coming from engineering on major infrastructure projects; the second coming from product and graphic design. This brings a unique perspective internally where we blend deep industry experience with a passion (obsession) for modern best practices in product design.
• Sitemate graduated from Australia’s #1 Technology Company Accelerator - Startmate.
• Sitemate has strong financial backing from Blackbird (Australia and NZ’s #1 Vc), Shearwater Growth Capital & Marbruck Investments.