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Engineering Lead

17/06/2025
18/07/2025
$185,000.00 - $190,000.00
Permanent
NSW
Data & Product

My Muscle Chef (MYMC) is Australia’s premium fresh ready-made meal and functional food and beverage company. Based in Sydney NSW, we are growing quickly to extend our position as the online direct to consumer and retail industry leader in an industry that is experiencing explosive growth. 

Since 2013, we have experienced continuous growth & hold enormous ambition to remain an industry leader.  We are seeking high energy individuals to join our entrepreneurial team and culture to help us unlock our next phase of hyper growth.

MYMC Values

We pride ourselves on a set of values that tangibly guide our behaviours and decisions, so we can grow the business and enjoy a world-class working experience. 

  1. Find a Better Way.
  2. Walk in our Customers' Shoes. Everyday.
  3. Challenge Ideas and Champion Solutions.
  4. Integrity is Stonger than Muscle.
  5. Enjoy the Journey!
     

You’ll play a critical role in transforming our engineering practice from a reactive, delivery-focused mindset to a disciplined, high-performance function that’s scalable, stable, and future-ready. You’ll be responsible for architecture, standards, tooling, hiring, and team development while also contributing production code.

Tech Stack

  • Shopify (Liquid, Shopify CLI, Ruby on Rails, Plus APIs)
  • React + TypeScript (Next.js)
  • Node.js + NestJS
  • Azure / GCP
  • Dynamics 365 (F&O) – desirable for integrations

Job Description

Key Responsibilities but not limited to:

Technical Leadership

  • Set and evolve the technical strategy across web, app, and platform integrations
  • Own architecture, frameworks, and tooling decisions for scalable, maintainable systems
  • Define and enforce standards for code quality, documentation, testing, observability, and incident response

Team Leadership:

  • Manage a team of in-house developers, with potential for scaling of team offshore as business needs grow
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance reviews
  • Support capability uplift through structured feedback and mentorship

Execution & Delivery:

  • Contribute directly to critical projects in Shopify Plus, React, Node, and React Native environments
  • Develop the engineering roadmap to ensure security and stability across systems is prioritised alongside customer-facing features and internal user requests
  • Partner with internal stakeholders to scope, prioritise, plan, and deliver features in 2-week sprints

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Act as the key engineering voice in cross-functional settings
  • Translate business goals into technical strategy and communicate trade-offs clearly
  • Ensure technical direction remains aligned with the company’s broader FY26 strategic roadmap
     

Skills & Experience:

  • 8+ years professional experience in software development
  • Proven leadership of distributed engineering teams
  • Strong experience with headless architecture, scalable solution design
  • Deep expertise in REST APIs, GraphQL, and modern JS/TS ecosystems
  • Strong communication skills; confident working with non-technical stakeholders
  • Comfortable being hands-on: this role involves direct coding responsibilities
  • Familiarity with Shopify Plus eCommerce platform, Shopify APIs and customisation
  • Understanding of D365 integrations (e.g. via AIS or APIs)
     

​​​​​​​What we offer you:

  • Enjoy discounted meals & $1 meals on site
  • A fully equipped gym on-site for employees
  • A hybrid working environment to suit your lifestyle
  • Be part of a diverse and values-led culture that backs bold ideas
  • You’ll shape the digital storefront for one of Australia's fastest-growing food brands
  • Work with a team that cares about building great stuff – no bloated processes here
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