What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Lead position at prezzee?
Who We Are:
Prezzee is a global leader in digital gifting and payments, having sold over 140 million gift cards through partnerships with more than 1,500 brands and serving over 6 million customers worldwide. Our mission is to change lives through the power of giving — leveraging borderless payment technology and innovative digital solutions to help people connect and create memorable moments that truly matter.
The Role:
As a Technical Lead at Prezzee, you’ll drive engineering excellence by guiding a distributed team of developers to deliver secure, high-quality solutions across multiple tech stacks. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership—leading by example through architecture design, hands-on coding, and ownership of CI/CD pipelines and production releases.
You’ll play a key role in building and scaling high-performing distributed teams, fostering collaboration across time zones, and ensuring clear communication, alignment, and delivery. Alongside this, you’ll champion best practices, embed a DevOps mindset, and create an environment where engineers can thrive and grow.
Some of the technologies and patterns we’re working on across our teams:
- React, Typescript and Next.JS
- Microfrontend architecture
- GraphQL Backend for Frontend using Apollo server.
- MicroServices backend capable of over 100 orders per second.
- Realtime page performance monitoring (LCP, Total Load Time, etc..) in Datadog
- Prezzee is an AWS Enterprise customer
- We love AI and are rolling out our custom internal AI agent soon.
Key Responsibilities:
You’ll lead frontend performance and optimisation across Prezzee’s web platform, driving measurable improvements in speed, conversion, and user experience.
- Own Core Web Vitals, page performance, and frontend responsiveness across a React / Next.js stack
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks across rendering, network requests, and bundle size
- Partner with Product, Design, and Growth to optimise conversion funnels and user journeys
- Design and evolve scalable frontend architecture using React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Leverage monitoring and analytics tools (e.g. Sentry, Datadog, GA) to inform decisions
- Mentor engineers and lead technical direction within the squad
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong experience building and optimising modern web apps with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Proven ability to lead and scale distributed engineering teams
- Proven impact improving Core Web Vitals and real-world performance
- Experience with experimentation platforms, A/B testing, or feature flagging tools
- Drive continuous improvement to optimize engineering velocity and code quality.
- Strong testing mindset across unit, integration, and E2E
- Experience working with analytics and monitoring tools to drive decisions
- Ability to influence stakeholders and work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering
- Experience driving alignment and execution across cross-functional and distributed teams
Why Join Prezzee?
You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of digital gifting at a global scale - working with talented people, modern technology, and a culture that genuinely values openness, excellence, and impact.
At Prezzee, Where We Don’t Just Work – We Innovate, Collaborate, And Shape The Future Of Digital Giving. As Part Of Our Dynamic Team, You’ll Contribute To a Global Company’s Growth While Enjoying a Flexible, Supportive, And Inclusive Work Environment. We Offer
Prezzeeversary Leave – Extra day of annual leave for each year you’re with us.
BirthYay Leave – Celebrate you with a paid day off during your birthday month.
Novated Car Leasing – A tax-smart way to bundle and pay for your car and running costs.
ClassPass Membership – Fully covered monthly credits for fitness, wellness, and beauty.
Office Allowance – One-time payment to upgrade your office setup.
Flexible Work Perks – Flex your hours, take Culture Swap Days, and work from anywhere for 30 days a year.
Prezzee Staff Discounts – Exclusive deals on Prezzee gift cards – just for being part of the team.
Wellbeing Support – Access to mental, social, financial, and physical wellbeing support via Telus.
Learning & Development – Grow your career with LinkedIn Learning, job shadowing, industry programs, and our Lunch & Learn sessions.
Employee Resource Groups – Be an advocate or ally and foster belonging through groups like EmpowHer and Pride.
Parental Leave – 12 weeks for primary carers and 4 weeks for secondary carers.
Prezzee has been recognised for the third consecutive year as a Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT, and as a Great Place to Work® 2026 across all of our three regions. We value diversity, collaboration, and innovation in everything we do. Join a global team united by the core values: Give openness, Give greatness, Give magic. Give a damn & Give Ingenuity.
Prezzee is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that diversity is the key to building the best products for our customers, team culture and growing our global business. Our diversity mission is for our people to be their most authentic selves, to inspire, innovate and celebrate within a culture of belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
We are looking for people to help create human connections, make magic and shape the future of gifting so even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you! Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application and recruitment process, We also encourage you to let us know of your pronouns at any point of the process.