Engineering Team Lead (ANZ, Remote)

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 an Engineering 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 a 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 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 People management: Manage a small team of engineers, support their development, and create a high performance culture of learning, ownership, and feedback 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 Own reliability and operability: Lead site reliability practices across the team - including obs