Engineering Lead

Join the revolution in hospitality tech

Liven is a leading global data, technology, and customer experience provider for the hospitality industry. From humble beginnings, we have grown to serve over 6,000 venues and millions of diners across Australia, the USA, and Southeast Asia, processing over 120 million transactions worth more than $3 billion (AUD) annually.

At Liven, our platform is built to help hospitality businesses save more and work smarter by seamlessly integrating every aspect of their operations — from ordering and payments to back-of-house management.

Driven by a deep passion for the hospitality industry, we continuously innovate to elevate the experience for both venues and their guests. Our solutions are powered by AI-enriched insights and automated workflows, enabling smarter decision-making and smoother operations at scale.

We're proud to be an AI-first organisation. By automating repetitive tasks, we free up space for our teams — and our customers — to focus on what truly matters: solving complex problems, delighting guests, and driving meaningful growth.

Key Milestones:

• Expansion: Acquired OrderUp, Abacus, Zeemart, Copper and Nomnie forming Asia Pacific's largest end-to-end group in hospitality technology.
• Global Reach: From Melbourne to New York, Singapore to Jakarta, and all the way to Chennai, our presence spans major cities across the globe.

If you're someone who thrives on creativity, bold thinking, and using technology to make things better, faster, and smarter — you'll feel right at home here.

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About the role

We're on the lookout for a hands-on, product-minded Engineering Lead (Full Stack) to drive the development of new features, architecture improvements, and scale our platform. This is a rare opportunity to lead a squad of talented engineers while still contributing to code, shaping our product roadmap, and delivering real impact across Liven's ecosystem.

You'll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions that delight users and help venues grow.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a full-stack engineering team, fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture
• Own the technical delivery of your squad, from discovery to deployment
• Design and build scalable, maintainable systems across frontend and backend
• Collaborate with product and design to define scope, requirements, and technical solutions
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to drive engineering best practices
• Contribute to architectural decisions and advocate for clean, reliable, and secure code
• Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD, observability, and engineering processes
• Act as a key contributor in planning, prioritisation, and delivery of product features
• Work with stakeholders across the business to understand user needs and balance tradeoffs

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
• Proven experience building full-stack web applications at scale (React, , Typescript or similar)
• Strong understanding of system design, microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), containerisation, and CI/CD pipelines
• Passion for mentoring, coaching, and growing engineering talent
• Product-focused mindset: you care about the why, not just the how
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Bonus: Experience in fintech, payments, loyalty, or hospitality tech

Good to Have

• Experience working in fintech, payments, loyalty, or hospitality tech
• Exposure to GraphQL, event-driven architectures, or serverless frameworks
• Familiarity with security and compliance considerations in regulated environments
• Experience with mobile development (React Native or Flutter)
• Track record of contributing to developer productivity or internal tooling
• Startup or scale-up experience with a bias for shipping and iterating quickly