Tech Lead

We Dream. We Design. We Deliver.

Join hummgroup, one of Australasia’s most successful and enduring non-bank financial services institutions. We specialise in fast, easy finance with a market-leading range of business asset finance, credit cards and point of sale payment plan solutions designed around the core needs of today’s businesses and retail consumers. Come join our team and be a part of our next chapter of innovation and growth.

What's so exciting about this role?

As a Tech Lead you’ll guide an engineering squad, driving delivery excellence and owning a technology roadmap that aligns seamlessly with our business strategy. This is a diverse and impactful role where your leadership will empower teams and influence the direction of one of our tech solutions.

What Does An Average Day Look Like?

No day is average at humm but here’s an idea of what you can expect to do in this role:

• Provide technical leadership and guide engineering squads in decision making and problem solving
• Mentor and support developers, fostering a collaborative and high performing team culture
• Own solution design and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and scalability needs
• Champion Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, SAFe)
• Collaborate with Product Owners to translate product vision into technical deliverables
• Drive continuous improvement across development processes and team practices
• Oversee 24x7 Level 3 support for squad-owned capabilities, ensuring reliability and customer satisfaction

Who will thrive in this role?

As a Tech Lead, your role would involve leading a team of developers in designing, developing and maintaining applications that are deployed on cloud infrastructure, particularly across AWS services and Kubernetes. You bring strong programming expertise, a solid understanding of cloud architecture, and a passion for leading high-performing teams. With excellent communication and leadership skills, you thrive in fast-paced environments, embrace continuous learning, and are driven by delivering impactful outcomes for customers.

We’re also looking for someone who brings:

• Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages and paradigms, with the ability to write clean, efficient code and adapt to new technologies as needed.
• Proficiency in AWS services such as Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, and Lambda.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Lead incident response efforts, following established procedures for troubleshooting and resolution.
• Proven leadership experience, partnering with team members to identify their goals and develop action plans to achieve them.
• Exposure to implementing CI/CD for software development.
• Background in finance or banking would be highly regarded.

Working at hummgroup

We embrace flexible working arrangements, ensuring a genuine work-life balance and a fun, vibrant inclusive culture that embraces diverse perspectives and values the unique contributions of each of our team through our behaviours Leadership - Accountability - Collaboration - Commerciality. 

We invite candidates of all gender expressions, ethnicities, ages, and other culturally diverse groups to apply.  We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and welcoming and supportive environment where all our people can thrive.

If this sounds like the opportunity, you have been looking for then apply today!