[Hiring] Development Team Lead @Kyckr

Role Description

This is a remote position. Open to Australian Candidates only. You must have full right to work in Australia with no visa requirements.

Kyckr is a B2B API platform that gives regulated businesses access to legally authoritative company data from 300+ corporate registries across 120 countries. Our customers are banks, fintechs, and compliance teams who rely on Kyckr to power their Know Your Business (KYB) and AML workflows. Data is sourced in real time from official government registries and delivered through a normalised, machine-readable API.

We are looking for a Development Team Lead to lead a small team of four developers while remaining a hands-on senior engineer. This is a player-coach role: we anticipate roughly an 80/20 split between writing code and leading the team. You will spend the majority of your time building software, and the rest growing your engineers, unblocking delivery, and raising the technical bar.

You will be one of our most senior technical contributors — setting the standard for code quality, design, and AI-assisted ways of working — at the same time as owning the line management and career development of your team. You will report directly to the CTO and work closely with them on technical direction, delivery, and team growth.

• Hands-On Engineering (the majority of your time)
• Agentic AI for Coding
• Product Integrations
• Team Leadership & People Management
• Delivery, Quality & Collaboration

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software development experience, with strong, current hands-on skills in .NET / C#.
• Solid experience with SQL Server: queries, stored procedures, and relational data modelling.
• Proven experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party systems and data sources.
• Demonstrable experience leading, mentoring, or line-managing engineers — and a genuine interest in developing people and their careers.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar).
• Strong system design and architecture judgement, with the ability to make and clearly explain pragmatic trade-offs.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills across a distributed system.
• Strong written and verbal communication for a remote, distributed team.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with leadership responsibilities (an 80/20 coding-to-leadership split).

Requirements

• Experience configuring or operating agentic AI workflows for development or QA at a team level.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services (Azure Functions, App Services, Service Bus, Blob Storage, Key Vault, APIM).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, automated deployments).
• Experience with message-driven and event-driven architectures (Azure Service Bus, queues).
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and Kubernetes.
• Front-end experience with React or other modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Experience working in a regulated industry (FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech, or similar).

Benefits

• Remote-first working with flexibility over your schedule.
• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Direct access to technical leadership and real influence over how the platform and team evolve.
• A small, experienced team with low bureaucracy and high trust.
• A genuinely interesting platform: real-time data from 120 countries, complex legacy systems being modernised, and a clear architectural direction.
• AI-first development culture — you will lead the team in using cutting-edge AI tooling as a core part of how we build, not as a side project.