Tech Lead - Hybrid

About this role

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📝 OVERVIEW

Build What Matters

The Engineering Tech Lead owns technical quality, architectural direction, and engineering standards within a product team. This is an ownership role. The Tech Lead is accountable for whether the codebase is getting better, whether architectural decisions hold up over time, and whether engineers are building the right way.

At Sitemate, the Tech Lead works alongside the Engineering Manager and the Product Design Manager (PDM). The PDM owns the what: scope, design, acceptance criteria. The Manager owns the how: capacity, planning, unblocking. The Tech Lead owns technical quality and direction. In practice these overlap constantly and require close collaboration.

The Tech Lead is also a practising engineer. They contribute code, ship features, and lead by example, not from the sidelines. Around half their time goes to technical initiatives: tech debt, platform improvements, and architectural unlocks that make the rest of the team faster.

EMPLOYMENT:

- Full-time

- Based: Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia

- Remuneration (Including Super): AUD $160,000 - $200,000 pending your experience

ABOUT SITEMATE

Sitemate builds modern software for construction, infrastructure, and industrial companies - helping teams move faster, work smarter, and deliver with confidence.

Our flagship platform, Dashpivot, transforms manual, paper-based processes into simple, mobile-first digital workflows. Teams use Sitemate every day to capture data in the field, automate reporting, and make better decisions in real time.

Since launching in 2018, we’ve grown from 5 to 150+ people across 18+ countries. We’re backed by Blackbird, Australia and New Zealand’s #1 venture capital firm, and graduated from the Startmate Accelerator. Thousands of companies use Sitemate tools today - with thousands more discovering us each month through strong word-of-mouth and organic growth.

WHY JOIN SITEMATE

At Sitemate, you’ll join a global team that values transparency, high velocity, hustle, diversity, and innovation.

We’re open about our metrics, honest about challenges, and obsessed with improving how the world’s most important industries operate. Our environment is flexible, fast-moving, and outcome-driven - designed to help you do the best work of your career.

You’ll be surrounded by people who take pride in their work, care deeply about results, and believe that great culture is built on trust, respect, and continuous learning.

HOW WE WORK

- Transparency at every level: Monthly Allhands meetings share key company metrics, updates, and customer stories. We also spotlight a team member’s “Life Story” each month - it’s one of the ways we stay connected as a global team.

- High velocity, low friction: Our systems are modern and fully integrated, so you’ll spend your time solving problems - not fighting tools.

- Performance-driven growth: Seven of our last ten pay increases were made proactively, based on impact and results.

- True flexibility: We focus on outcomes, not hours. You’ll have autonomy to manage your time and work where you perform best - with no time monitoring or unnecessary meetings.

- Collaboration: You’ll work closely with other teams - engineering, product, design, marketing, and customer success - to move fast and deliver meaningful results.

- Sydney HQ perks - rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers, and cycle storage in Haymarket

- Melbourne office perks - micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms, opposite Southern Cross station

WHAT WE OFFER

- Competitive, performance-based remuneration

- Equity options - own a piece of what you’re helping to build

- 20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave

- Paid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers (including adoption and stillbirth support)

- Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework

- Laptop and home-office setup budget

- Flexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year

- Community & connection - weekly team lunches, global offsites, and our signature “Life Story” sessions

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Sitemate welcomes people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities, and abilities.

55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, 43% identify as female, and our team spans ages 22–51. We believe our diversity makes us stronger - and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

LEARN MORE ABOUT SITEMATE

🎧 Podcasts:

- 2024: CEO Hartley Pike on scaling Sitemate, diversity, and culture https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dC9gsDQRH8IKBgylSZisV

- 2023: CMO Lance Hodgson on accelerating your career https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DOmN3dp3vGULajQpEQMB9?si=QNRB2lvWQYiaTHFMygW81w

- 2022: CTO Tim Bray on building quality features that solve real customer problems https://open.spotify.com/episode/7geTCUHFxZUKZ8Yrae4iR7

💬 Want to know what it’s like to work at Sitemate? Hear it straight from the team: People of Sitemate https://sitemate.com/au/resources/careers/people-of-sitemate/
⭐ Read what our customers say: G2 Crowd https://www.g2.com/products/dashpivot/reviews, Trust Radius https://www.trustradius.com/products/dashpivot-by-sitemate/reviews?o=recent
🎥 Team Offsites: 2022 https://sitemate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOR/pages/3087761409/Job+Listing+v2+Draft#, 2023 https://sitemate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOR/pages/3087761409/Job+Listing+v2+Draft#, 2024…