Zeller9mo ago

Backend Tech Lead - Build World Class POS and Invoice Products

Melbourne · MelbourneFull Timelead

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About Zeller At Zeller, we’re champions for businesses of all sizes, and proud to be a fast-growing Australian scale-up reimagining business banking and payments. We believe in a level playing field,

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About Zeller

At Zeller, we’re champions for businesses of all sizes, and proud to be a fast-growing Australian scale-up reimagining business banking and payments.

We believe in a level playing field, where all businesses benefit from access to smarter payments and financial services solutions that accelerate their cash flow, help them get paid faster, and give them a better understanding of their finances. So we’re hard at work building the tools to make it happen.

Zeller is growing fast, backed by leading VCs, and brings together a global team of passionate payment and tech industry professionals. With an exciting roadmap of innovative new products under development, we are building a supportive and high performing team to inspire change in the outdated banking solutions. If you are passionate about innovation, thrive in dynamic environments, embrace new possibilities, hate bureaucracy, and can’t think of anything more exciting than evolving the status-quo, then read on to learn more.

Lead the team scaling Zeller’s POS and Invoice products

Join Zeller’s growing engineering team of 150 as a backend focussed Tech Lead combining hands-on technical contribution with people leadership. You’ll manage a multi-region team of three engineers while taking ownership of the systems behind Zeller’s fast-growing POS and Invoice products.

Leading your team from the front and staying deeply technical as a player-coach, this role offers the opportunity for high impact technical leadership with formal people management responsibilities.

About the team

Zeller’s POS and Invoices team is part of the Payments engineering group. Together, they own the customer facing products enabling millions of payments to Australian businesses each month. Your new backend team works with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and others to build Zeller’s products in the Point of Sale and Invoice areas.

Drive architectural solutions collaboratively with your team and engineering leadership, to build and scale Zeller’s products

Write production code regularly as a core contributor while maintaining oversight of your team's technical deliverables

Own operational excellence for your team’s systems including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements

Champion modern development practices including active use of LLMs within your team and the adoption of technical practices at Zeller

Lead and a team of 3 software engineers, identifying skill gaps, managing personal development plans and fostering a positive culture of learning, ownership, and psychological safety

Partner closely with product managers as joint owners of your product success, contributing technical and delivery insight to shape what gets built

You have owned backend systems and scaled customer facing platforms

You have coached software engineers and have driven a team’s capability uplift through mentorship and personal example

You have worked in product-driven companies and have a track record of driving pace and delivery

You are experienced in backend system design and demonstrate well reasoned, rational decision making with the ability to navigate between detail and broader context

You have exceptional written and verbal communication and can move from a conversation with non-technical stakeholders to reframing a project into detailed designs requirements for your engineering team

You have a strong self-learning drive and are actively using and adapting your workflows to incorporate generative AI tools

Prior experience with POS solutions of any kind is highly valued