Pushpay
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We’re looking for a Technical Lead who combines strong engineering craft with the ability to bring people along with them.
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The What
You’re not looking for a role where leadership pulls you away from engineering. You want to stay close to the work — designing features, guiding technical decisions, and helping a team consistently deliver software they’re proud of.
We’re looking for a Technical Lead who combines strong engineering craft with the ability to bring people along with them. This is a technical leadership role where you’ll guide engineering direction, support delivery, and help engineers grow, while partnering closely with an Engineering Manager who looks after formal people leadership.
You’ll lead a team of 5 - 8 engineers responsible for building and delivering meaningful features. Your role is to create clarity, maintain engineering quality, and ensure the team has the technical direction it needs to move with confidence. The problems here sit where customer needs meet engineering execution — turning ideas into reliable, well-designed software that improves real user experiences.
What This Role Really Is
You’re the engineer who helps the team do their best work.
This role is about technical leadership through craft, trust, and collaboration.
The Work
This isn’t ticket management. It’s technical ownership of team delivery.
Design and deliver robust features in C# / .NET
Guide technical decisions and architecture within your team
Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers on delivery priorities
Review code and mentor engineers to strengthen engineering quality
Identify risks early and help the team navigate them
Encourage strong engineering practices across design, testing, and deployment
You’ll stay hands-on when it matters, while helping the team build momentum and confidence in the work they deliver.
The Stack
C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core
NodeJS services, React Frontends
Entity Framework and other ORMs
MS SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
REST APIs and GraphQL
Messaging/Eventing (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kinesis)
Microservices and distributed systems, instrumented with OTel
AWS infrastructure
AI services underpinned by Claude, Bedrock, and Langfuse
You don’t need to know every tool on day one. Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to reason about systems matter far more than specific technologies.
Lead a capable engineering team delivering meaningful features
Influence how software is designed, built, and shipped
Mentor engineers and grow the technical strength of the team
Stay hands-on with modern engineering practices
Ship software that genuinely improves the experience for customers
Enjoys helping others become stronger engineers
Cares about building high-quality software that ships
Balances delivery pace with technical quality
Leads through curiosity, collaboration, and example
This will resonate.
Pushpay is an innovative New Zealand-born SaaS business that is spread between offices in Auckland, NZ and the United States. We help organisations like churches and charities build communities and stay connected through our industry-leading suite of mobile apps, church management software and digital giving technology.
We love our culture. If you join us, you’ll discover how we foster mutual respect, innovation, brainstorming, blameless postmortems, brainfood learning sessions, and recognition for your accomplishments and impact on our product. You will be heard, your opinion understood, your input valued, and your knowledge respected as you work with a team of high-calibre people with a drive to do-it-well.
We have a passion for making all employees feel supported. In addition to having a genuine interest in helping you do your best work and drive your career, we offer:
Training: $3,000 annual training/conference allowance for your personal development
Hybrid Work Model: We aim to offer a healthy work/life balance with flexible hours and the option to work from home 2 days a week
Kiwisaver
Parental Leave: Our paid parental leave policy offers primary & secondary caregiver leave, and we also have no leave override for those returning to work after parental leave, meaning you'll be paid at your full rate for annual holidays.
Sick Leave: You'll automatically get 10 days sick leave per year upon starting (no 6 month wait period!)
State-of-the-art hardware and engineering tools
Healthy food & drink options
Free annual flu shots
Fun on and offsite social events and Friday in-office happy hour
Volunteering options through our employee-led Pushpay Cares program
Please note: To be considered for this vacancy you must have full working rights for New Zealand.