Engineering Team Lead

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🕒 August 24

🌐 New Zealand, Australia – Remote

🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote 🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 14%

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💰 Grant on 2024-08

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Optimal is a continuous user research and usability testing platform that helps product, design, and research teams validate concepts, run prototype testing, and recruit the right participants. It provides mixed-methods testing (prototype testing, live site testing, surveys, interviews, card sorting and tree testing), imports from design tools like Figma, and records screen/audio and mobile sessions. Optimal also offers participant recruitment (10M+ verified participants across 150+ countries) with fraud prevention and transparent pricing, plus AI-powered analysis that surfaces patterns, themes, and stakeholder-ready reports to turn user feedback into actionable product decisions. The platform emphasizes early and frequent testing, information architecture optimization, and generating business-impacting insights for teams and enterprises.

📋 Description

• Contribute hands-on to the design and development of scalable, reliable systems • Define and evolve engineering strategy, architecture, and platform foundations with technical leaders and the CTPO • Manage a small team of engineers and support their development • Build a high-performance culture of learning, ownership, and feedback • Explore and implement AI tools to improve developer productivity and accelerate delivery • Partner with Product and Design to break down problems, plan effectively, and ship confidently • Remove friction and help the team achieve its goals • Lead site reliability practices, including observability, incident response, on-call, and scalable, secure, resilient systems • Shape product strategy and roadmap while partnering with technical leaders and the CTPO

🎯 Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset and care for the product, customer, and business • Proven ability to mentor or manage engineers while maintaining individual contributions • Product mindset and enjoyment of working closely with product and design • Pragmatic, action-oriented approach and ability to make decisions • Excitement about using AI to improve software development • Ability to work with ambiguity and shape the path forward • Experience with React, Ruby on Rails, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD technologies, or similar stack • Role can be based anywhere in New Zealand or Australia

🏖️ Benefits

• An opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) • Annual wellbeing allowance and support • Home office set-up support • 4 weeks annual leave plus an additional day off on your birthday • Flexible and remote first working

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