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About the Role

The Full Stack Tech Lead is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of modern digital platforms across the organisation. This role combines deep hands-on engineering expertise across front-end and back-end technologies with strong leadership capability, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions aligned with business and enterprise architecture objectives.

Responsibilities

• Establish and govern full stack engineering standards, architecture patterns, development frameworks, and secure coding practices across front-end, back-end, API, integration, data, and cloud platforms.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and engineering governance.
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing digital applications across web, mobile, and customer-facing platforms.
• Maintain hands-on involvement in complex technical solutions, critical development activities, and production issue resolution.
• Own end-to-end solution architecture for digital platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity requirements, data governance standards, and business objectives.
• Define technology roadmaps and architectural strategies that support long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
• Design and oversee integration architectures and API ecosystems, enabling seamless connectivity between digital platforms, CRM, LMS, student systems, identity services, data platforms, and third-party applications through RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern integration patterns.
• Champion cloud-native engineering practices, DevOps culture, and platform automation, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerisation, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and operational resilience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in full stack software development within enterprise or digital environments
• Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership or lead role, including mentoring and guiding development teams
• Experience in full stack development using React, Java, Node.js, and .NET
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, GraphQL and microservices architectures
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native development
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and automated testing
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Candidates must have full, ongoing working rights in Australia.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Skills

• React
• Java
• Node.js
• .NET
• RESTful APIs
• GraphQL
• Microservices architectures
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Cloud-native development
• DevOps
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git
• Automated testing
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Location

• Surry Hills Campus in Sydney

Work Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years of experience in full stack software development
• Technical leadership or lead role experience

Benefits

• Study free in a course/degree related to your position
• B Corp certified university – values driven, and purpose led
• Access to internal opportunities - Be supported to learn, grow and move across the organisation

About the Company

• At Torrens University Australia, making a difference is in our DNA.
• As a Certified B Corporation, we belong to a global community of future-focused companies using business as a force for good.
• We believe in the transformative power of education to change lives, families, communities – and the world.
• We’re on a mission to increase access to higher education, so learners from all walks of life can chase their dreams.
• When you join us, we give you the freedom to be bold, creative and courageous – with flexible working arrangements that allow you to bring your best.
• We’ve built a culture that celebrates community, collaboration and innovation, where people love what they do.
• Bold, modern and agile, we’re Australia’s fastest-growing university, going from 164 students in 2014 to 40,000+ alumni across 115+ countries and 2000+ staff today.
• In 2020, Australian Financial Review named us one of the country’s most innovative companies.
• As we continue to establish ourselves as a truly global university, we never lose sight of our student-centric approach.
• Supported by teams of passionate people, you’ll find endless opportunities for professional development and career progression.

Equal Opportunity

• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive workplace.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
• We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all positions.