At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable SaaS solutions on AWS.
- Company: Fortiro, a dynamic fintech transforming financial crime prevention.
- Benefits: Flexible work culture, opportunities for growth, and a focus on employee development.
- Other info: Join a supportive team dedicated to innovation and excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in fraud detection while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in software engineering with strong leadership and AWS skills.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 $ per year.
About Us
Fortiro is a growing fintech with a highly experienced team, backed by significant investment, and giving you the opportunity to contribute to an award-winning enterprise Saa S platform.
Our technology uses emerging technologies and AI to help detect financial crime and enable automation in processes like lending and insurance claim verification.
It is trusted by leading banks and financial services businesses in Australia, New Zealand, and globally.
About The Role
The Tech Lead owns the technical direction, quality and security of Fortiro's enterprise Saa S platform.
You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure and compliant solutions on AWS, set the engineering standard for the team, and act as the technical authority that keeps every change aligned to the product's strategic vision.
You will also be the technical voice on security and compliance for our customers, supporting the trust that leading banks, lenders and insurers place in Fortiro.
- What You'll Be Doing
- Lead technical design and architecture
- Own the platform's technical direction, aligned to the product roadmap and strategic vision
- Architect scalable, secure AWS systems with built-in redundancy and high availability
- Work with Product to turn business and customer requirements into robust solutions
- Challenge inefficient or insecure designs before they reach delivery
- Drive secure, high-quality delivery
- Lead design, development and deployment across the full SDLC
- Review and approve design and code changes
- Build security, efficiency and compliance into every stage
- Deliver predictably within agile processes
- Own platform security and compliance
- Oversee compliance monitoring, configuration management and identity management
- Respond to customer security assessments and questionnaires
- Partner with Customer and Sales teams on enterprise security requirements
- Lead and develop the engineering team
- Mentor developers and build a high-performing team
- Set and uphold engineering standards through code reviews and design discussions
- Grow capability across the team to remove single points of knowledge
- Keep the platform reliable and well documented
- Monitor performance, availability and security proactively
- Lead incident response and drive root-cause fixes
- Document the solution architecture and QA documentation prepared by others
- What You'll Bring
- 8+ years in software engineering, including leading delivery of a cloud-based Saa S platform as a Tech Lead or senior engineer
- Strong Java and Spring Framework skills
- Hands-on AWS expertise, ideally across ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, Cognito, RDS, Cloud Watch and Security Hub
- Proven ability to design reliable, secure systems and implement common compliance requirements
- Experience managing and monitoring compliance in cloud environments using recognised frameworks
- End-to-end SDLC leadership, with a track record of secure, high-quality delivery in agile teams
- Strong leadership and communication, including explaining complex topics to non-technical audiences
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar, or equivalent industry experience
Bonus points for
building Saa S for banks, lenders, insurers or other regulated industries, and exposure to AI/ML or document processing.
- Why Fortiro
- Make an impact: help enterprise customers succeed with world-class fraud detection
- Work on cutting-edge solutions: build products that transform financial crime prevention
- Be yourself: flexible, inclusive culture with remote and in-person options
- Grow with us: real opportunities to learn and take on new challenges
- Long-term focus: we invest in our people, and our strong retention rate proves it
No recruitment agencies please. We have this covered and will reach out if we need support.
Tech Lead in Melbourne employer: Fortiro
Fortiro is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Melbourne where you can make a real impact by supporting platforms that protect major banks from financial crime. With a strong focus on employee growth, Fortiro provides clear pathways into SRE, observability, or platform engineering, all while fostering an inclusive and flexible culture that values long-term investment in its people.
