Engineering Team Lead

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 250 people based in Australia, Plenti is of a size where everyone can make a difference in their role and help us realise our very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia’s best lender.

Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014, listed on the ASX since 2020 with annual revenue of over $250 million and a loan portfolio of over $2.5 billion.

At Plenti, we’re on a mission to make lending faster, fairer and more accessible. As we continue to scale, we’re looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to lead one of our high-performing engineering teams.

This is a leadership-focused role with strong technical oversight, blending people leadership, delivery ownership and architectural guidance. You’ll work closely with Product Managers and senior engineering stakeholders to drive innovation, uplift our technology stack and ensure the successful delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions.

We’re seeking someone passionate about building high-performing teams, fostering accountability and creating a collaborative engineering culture where quality and continuous improvement are at the forefront.

• Partner with Product Managers to assess upcoming initiatives and shape robust technical solutions

• Translate high-level requirements into clear, structured and deliverable backlogs

• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers and Architects to align on technical direction and standards

• Provide guidance on solution design and implementation to ensure alignment with best practices and long-term scalability

• Lead, coach and support engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes

• Set clear priorities and ensure effective planning and execution of work

• Make final decisions on task allocation and delivery approach within the team

• Mentor engineers to support their technical development and career growth

• Foster a high-performance, accountable and inclusive team environment

• Ensure technical initiatives (including tech debt and platform uplift) are appropriately prioritised

• Oversee incident management, ensuring timely resolution and clear ownership

• Maintain and continuously improve product quality, reliability and performance

• Drive improvements in engineering processes, tooling and ways of working

• Extensive experience with .NET / C#, with a strong foundation in solution design

• Proven management experience, with a track record of empowering teams and improving engineering processes

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives

• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and microservices

• Solid knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and best practices

• Proven ability to establish and uphold high coding standards across teams

• A strong advocacy for test-driven development (TDD)

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and success. If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then join to help us reshape Australia’s financial eco-system for the good.

In return, you will enjoy a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to take your career further. We offer flexible working and volunteer and study leave to develop your skills. We also have monthly social events, office snacks, company Townhalls and D&I initiatives and events to help you connect with your colleagues. 

Plenti is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities. When you apply, let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process so we can accommodate you.