Team Lead Engineer, Remote

Immersive
Immersive

Posted on Oct 21, 2026

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About us

We will see more innovation in payments in the next 10 years than the last 1,000 years and Immersve is uniquely positioned to lead this evolution. It provides a seamless bridge between real life and Metaverse payments through a single decentralised protocol.

Immersve.com enables holders of cryptocurrencies, tokens and DeFi / Game-FI earning; held in NFT wallets, exchanges or various protocols to leverage their holdings in local Fiat currency to spend at real life merchants or transact in the Metaverse with their Agents or Avatars.

In addition, its has the added cool that people will have the ability to forge their favourite NFT on it, display your handle (not name) and earn a configurable real time reward, that are relevant to the community (such as tokens or NFTs or even stablecoins).

Immersve will pioneer at pace, delivering features and integrations for a unified payment experience across web2 / 3 and the Metaverse.

The design is one of privacy first products and experiences that will be as decentralised as practically possible, with open source code, APIs and multi-chain protocols enabling anyone to extend or build on top of.

The Founders and backers are global VCs and internationally recognised leaders in this space. You will work directly with them and they will invest time to teach and support you.

The Role

As a Team lead and full stack software engineer you will be involved with managing the day-to-day activities of your team to create an efficient and effective working environment. You will also be responsible for ensuring our codebase continues to maintain high quality and scalability for future development of APIs, UIs, IaC, tests and other such keys parts to the engineering department and business as a whole. You will be part of the mentoring programme to help guide less experienced engineers through their growth and communicate regularly with stakeholders to ensure alignment on goals and progress in a highly-collaborative, remote-first environment based in and around Auckland, NZ.Key considerations for the role:

  • Full CI/CD with multiple daily deploys to production, including day one! πŸš€
  • Manage and mentor engineers in the day-to-day activities πŸ₯°
  • Communicate clearly and regularly on status, progress and expectations πŸ“£
  • Be a leader in all aspects of the product, from initial design πŸ€” to roadmap scoping and delivery πŸ“¦
  • A true devOps role that allows you to flex your muscle πŸ’ͺ in your area of expertise and grow in others 🌱
  • Demonstrate strong developer principals that put focus on code quality πŸ’Ž and performance 🏎️
  • Bleeding edge technologies that will allow you to establish new tools and patterns as the product and technologies evolve πŸ”ͺ
  • Some of our perks

  • Flexibility - Work from anywhere in NZ for that perfect work-life balance and 6 weeks Annual Leave βš–οΈ
  • Support - People first approach πŸ’— with investment in personal growth, ongoing learning and development πŸ“š
  • Reward - Competitive salary and share options πŸ“ˆ
  • Technology - MacBook Pro (Silicon 🀩) and a home office budget ⌨️
  • About you

    You are first and foremost a team player πŸ₯°

    You are also an excellent coder who is keen on shaping technology and building a team culture that puts the person first to achieve delivery goals. You are able to organise people and prioritise tasks by taking initiative to reach out to stakeholders and expose requirements.

    You work comfortably full stack β€” from cloud infrastructure and database to APIs and UIs. You may not be familiar with all our tech stack but are interested in learning. You may have exposure or be curious about blockchain and smart contract development.

    You embrace a continuous delivery mindset β€” working in small batches, verifying the correctness of your work at each increment. You are comfortable contributing to high level technical designs and mentoring others.

    Tech Stack

    Below are some of the technologies we are building with:

  • TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Cypress
  • NodeJS, Hapi, Cucumber, Solidity, Substrate
  • AWS, Docker, Terraform, DynamoDB
  • Application Process

    2 interviews, 1 coding task. First is a general interview, then the coding task. The second interview is technical, going over code from the task and discussing other technical questions.