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This is a Backend Tech Lead - Build World Class POS and Invoice Products role with Zeller based in Melbourne, VIC, AU Zeller Role Seniority - mid level More about the Backend Tech Lead - Build World Class POS and Invoice Products role at Zeller About Zeller At Zeller, we’re champions for businesses of all sizes, and proud to be a fast-growing Australian scale-up reimagining business banking and payments. We believe in a level playing field, where all businesses benefit from access to smarter payments and financial services solutions that accelerate their cash flow, help them get paid faster, and give them a better understanding of their finances. So we’re hard at work building the tools to make it happen. Zeller is growing fast, backed by leading VCs, and brings together a global team of passionate payment and tech industry professionals. With an exciting roadmap of innovative new products under development, we are building a supportive and high performing team to inspire change in the outdated banking solutions. If you are passionate about innovation, thrive in dynamic environments, embrace new possibilities, hate bureaucracy, and can’t think of anything more exciting than evolving the status-quo, then read on to learn more. Lead the team scaling Zeller’s POS and Invoice products Join Zeller’s growing engineering team of 150 as a backend focussed Tech Lead combining hands-on technical contribution with people leadership. You’ll manage a multi-region team of three engineers while taking ownership of the systems behind Zeller’s fast-growing POS and Invoice products. Leading your team from the front and staying deeply technical as a player-coach, this role offers the opportunity for high impact technical leadership with formal people management responsibilities. Note: This leadership role requires working 4 days per week from our Melbourne office. Zeller’s work with flexibility around a core of in-office collaboration that we believe is crucial to high growth startups. About the team Zeller’s POS and Invoices team is part of the Payments engineering group. Together, they own the customer facing products enabling millions of payments to Australian businesses each month. Your new backend team works with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and others to build Zeller’s products in the Point of Sale and Invoice areas. What You'll Do: Technical Leadership & System Ownership Drive architectural solutions collaboratively with your team and engineering leadership, to build and scale Zeller’s products Write production code regularly as a core contributor while maintaining oversight of your team's technical deliverables Own operational excellence for your team’s systems including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements Champion modern development practices including active use of LLMs within your team and the adoption of technical practices at Zeller Lead and a team of 3 software engineers, identifying skill gaps, managing personal development plans and fostering a positive culture of learning, ownership, and psychological safety Partner closely with product managers as joint owners of your product success, contributing technical and delivery insight to shape what gets built What We're Looking For You have owned backend systems and scaled customer facing platforms You have coached software engineers and have driven a team’s capability uplift through mentorship and personal example You have worked in product-driven companies and have a track record of driving pace and delivery You are experienced in backend system design and demonstrate well reasoned, rational decision making with the ability to navigate between detail and broader context You have exceptional written and verbal communication and can move from a conversation with non-technical stakeholders to reframing a project into detailed designs requirements for your engineering team You have a strong self-learning drive and are actively using and adapting your workflows to incorporate generative AI tools Prior experience with POS solutions of any kind is highly valued Technical Background You should be comfortable writing production Typescript code, but experience with our full tech-stack is not an expectation. Some tools we use - A serverless, event driven system architecture built on AWS - AWS Lambda, Event Bridge, API Gateway, SQSRelational and NoSQL datastores including Aurora Postgres and DynamoDB - Application monitoring tools including CloudTrail, X-Ray, Datadog - A rigorous approach to continuous integration and system correctness that includes infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform), and high coverage of unit, integration, and system tests built with Github Actions How we work Our team thrives on the energy of being together. While technology connects us virtually, we love the in-person collaboration and spend majority of our work week at our spacious (and fully stocked with snacks) Melbourne CBD office. Like the rest of the team, you’ll benefit from A competitive salary package, including equity from an early stage; A balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment; Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements; A fantastic office environment; Endless learning and development opportunities; Plenty of fun and social opportunities - we love to come together as a team; An ability to influence and shape the future of Zeller as our company scales both domestically and globally; Being part of one of Australia’s most exciting scale-ups. At Zeller, we celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply to join our team. We want you to be able to show up at your best during the recruitment process. Please, let us know if you require any accommodations during your interview process with us. Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you’ll be learning new things all the time and the Zeller team will be there to support your growth. Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what’s outlined Key Responsibilities ️ Driving architectural solutions Writing production code Owning operational excellence Key Strengths ️ Backend system design ‍ Technical leadership ️ Communication skills Experience with POS solutions Generative AI tools ☁️ AWS experience Why Zeller is partnering with Hatch on this role. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. So when you apply you have the chance to show more than just your resume. A Final Note: This is a role with Zeller not with Hatch.