The key purpose of this role is to lead a software engineering squad with the design, development and optimisation of high-quality and scalable applications and systems. This role requires the ability to write clean, efficient and well-documented code and to collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement solutions. This role conducts code reviews and ensures code quality and adherence to best practices. The role is required to participate in the full software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment, operation and maintenance. The role includes the line management of the software engineers and test engineers within an engineering squad.
* Lead a software engineering squad.
* Design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems.
* Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement solutions.
* Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
* Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment, operation and maintenance.
This position will be based in our Perth office.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and manage the members of a software engineering squad.
* Providing strong technical leadership and coaching to your team and the department.
* Working in an agile software engineering environment to deliver awesome features that will delight our customers.
* Writing software in an iterative environment using continuous integration and continuous delivery.
* Working in a collaborative environment to design, prove, document, engineer, test, deploy, scale and operate software.
* Contributing technically to ensure design feasibility; approach; usability; architecture; code quality; testability; scalability; and performance.
* Suggesting appropriate technologies, techniques and standards to help deliver our goals.
* Participating in scrum ceremonies to help provide visibility and accountability towards delivery of projects you're working on.
* Pairing with other team members.
* Supporting and developing other software engineers by providing advice, coaching, mentoring and educational opportunities (brown bags, anyone?).
* Working to help ensure homogeneous code contributions from everyone on your team.
* Working with a geographically distributed software engineering team.
* Assisting with driving the adoption of good practices across the department.
* Updating job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and technologies; participating in educational opportunities; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organisations.
Key Requirements:
You should be able to demonstrate the use of some of the below skills, preferably by referencing previous commercial experience:
* Leading a full-stack software engineering team.
* Technical governance.
* Analysing information.
* Software design.
* Software documentation.
* Teamwork.
* Software engineering fundamentals:
* Writing tested, maintainable code;
* Software testing;
* Test-driven development;
* SOLID principles.
You will be practised in the software development lifecycle:
* Backlog refinement.
* Estimation.
* Implementation.
* Testing.
* CI/CD.
* DevOps.
* Feature Toggling.
* Release.
* Operating / monitoring.
* Rolling back.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From $165,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Referral program
* Visa sponsorship
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Perth WA 6000