Technical Team Lead - Software Engineering
Simple MachinesWarsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland • London, England, United Kingdom • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • San Francisco, California, United States • New Zealand
Posted October 23, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Simple Machines is a global team of creative engineers and expert technologists. We partner with organisations to unleash their data’s potential in new and impactful ways. We design and build data platforms and unique software products. We create and deploy intelligent systems. We engineer data to life. Our heritage is architecting and engineering highly performant, distributed, data driven platforms and data driven applications that perform at massive scale. We partner with enterprise, governments and global technology companies to put their data to work in the real world. Simple Machines is partners with leading technology providers including GCP, AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Confluent, Immuta. Sydney | London | Christchurch
Job Description
Simple Machines is seeking a Technical Team Lead to lead a team of highly skilled software engineers, DevOps specialists, and QA. The role involves designing scalable software solutions, establishing best practices, ensuring team collaboration, and owning a dedicated Poland-based technology hub. It's a hands-on leadership position with a focus on technical expertise and people management.
Requirements
- Strong written and verbal English
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams, ideally with exposure to DevOps or platform engineering
- Strong technical background in modern platforming languages (Java, JVM, Kotlin)
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring practices
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in a consulting or client-facing environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health and Wellbeing Allowance
- Professional Development Budget
- Certifications Budget
- Equipment Allowance