ANZ | Remote (or Hybrid from our Wellington office)
About Optimal
At Optimal, we build powerful research tools that help teams make data-driven decisions. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands, we’re passionate about user experience and the transformative power of human insight.
About the role
We’re looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our team - someone who loves building great products and helping other engineers do their best work.
At Optimal, we build tools that help teams make better decisions through user research. We’re a small, ambitious team, which means you’ll have real impact on how we build, ship, and scale our product. You’ll play a key role in shaping the strategy and roadmap - partnering closely with other technical leaders and our CTPO.
This role is a mix of hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and people leadership. You’ll be close to the code, shaping architecture and delivery, while and leading a small team of Engineers.
What you’ll do:
You’ll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and delivery - helping the team move quickly and build the right things.
- Build and ship : Stay hands-on with the codebase, contributing to the design and development of scalable, reliable systems
- Shape how we build: Partner with other technical leaders and the CTPO to define and evolve our engineering strategy, architecture, and platform foundations
- Use AI to move faster : Explore and implement ways to leverage AI tools to improve developer productivity and accelerate delivery
- Own delivery : Partner closely with Product and Design to break down problems, plan effectively, and ship with confidence
- Unblock and support the team : Keep things moving, remove friction, and help the team hit their goals
- Grow people : Mentor engineers, support their development, and create a high performing culture of learning, ownership, and feedback
- Own reliability and operability : Lead site reliability practices across the team - including observability, incident response, on-call, and building systems that are scalable, secure, and resilient
What we’re looking for:
- Entrepreneurial mindset : You think beyond your team - you care about the product, the customer, and the business, and you’re motivated to make an impact
- Technical and people leadership experience : You’ve led or mentored engineers and can guide technical decisions without needing to own everything
- Product mindset : You care about outcomes, not just output - and enjoy working closely with product and design
- Gets things done : You bring energy, momentum, and a bias for action. You’re pragmatic and not afraid to make decisions and move forward
- Excited about AI : You’re excited about how AI can improve the way we build software and are keen to experiment and apply it in practice