Location: Philippines (Remote)
Working hours: Philippines business hours (PH time zone alignment)
Compensation: PHP 200,000 - 270,000 per month (based on experience)
Reports to: CEO
ChangePlan.co is a SaaS company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Our platform helps global enterprises — including Bridgestone and Duracell — manage the people-side of large-scale project rollouts, ensuring new systems and processes actually get adopted.
We're a small, fast-moving team modernising our architecture and building toward AI. We want a Tech Lead who can help us ship faster — and build the kind of foundation that lets us keep doing it.
About the Role
As our Tech Lead, you'll own the technical direction of our product and lead a team of 5 engineers.
You'll work directly with the CEO to drive delivery with urgency, translate business goals into a clear technical roadmap and make sure what we ship is robust, well-tested, and ready to scale.
This role suits someone who is hands-on, accountable, AI forward, and energised by working closely with a non-technical founder in a fast-moving startup.
The role is fully remote. The Philippines has a good daylight overlap with Sydney. We don't expect you to work odd hours, but we do expect a daily rhythm of communication.
What You'll Do Day-to-Day
- Lead architecture and system design for scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Manage, mentor and grow a team of 5 engineers — including hiring, code review, and feedback.
- Turn discussions with the CEO and product into concrete plans with clear timelines.
- Identify where new AI tools can make us faster and better, and put them to work.
- Keep the team focused and moving on the roadmap with a strong sense of urgency
- Maintain a daily communication rhythm with the CEO — progress, blockers, and anything off-track.
- Translate technical context, trade-offs, and industry norms for a non-technical CEO without making assumptions about prior knowledge.
- Own the testing function — ensure robust testing happens before anything goes to clients, and drive towards full automation of ongoing testing.
- Oversee infrastructure, deployments, and production support.
What You'll Bring – Technical Expertise
- Strong system architecture and scalability experience, with a proven track record of scaling things up.
- Deep understanding of databases and infrastructure, with particular expertise in NoSQL.
- AI curiosity — actively exploring and adopting new tools to improve velocity and quality.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) for hosting, deploying, and managing production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Node.js.
- Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks, especially React.
- Experience designing and overseeing automated test suites end-to-end.
What You'll Bring – Leadership & Mindset
- Highly accountable: you set timelines visible to everyone and you hit them, or you flag early when you can't.
- Experience leading a team of engineers, including hiring and performance management.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication — clear, concise, and proactive.
- Strong bias for action and willingness to push hard when delivery demands it.
- Open to feedback and quick to act on it.
- Warmth and humility — the kind of presence that gets embraced by an existing team.
Why Join Us
- Bootstrapped and profitable — pressure here comes from building something great, not from investors or funding rounds.
- Direct line to the CEO and real ownership of the technical direction of a profitable, growing SaaS business.
- A tight-knit team where your impact is visible and meaningful.
- Remote, full-time contractor engagement with a healthy Sydney/Philippines time overlap.
Interview Process
We keep our process streamlined and respectful of your time:
- Intro conversation with our CEO (video) – A chance to learn more about each other and the role.
- Technical interview with our engineering consultant (video) – A deep dive into your experience, problem-solving skills, and technical knowledge.
- Fit interview with a member of our development team (video) – A working-style and culture conversation.
We will also speak personally with your references before making an offer.
If you're excited by the idea of leading a small, agile team and making a big impact in a growing SaaS business, we'd love to hear from you.
