Software Engineering Team Lead
Freelancer.com
- Sydney, NSW
- $120,000-150,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Build and maintain a high performance software engineering team
- Develop solutions, define delivery goals and lead teams to achieve them within agreed timelines
- Nurture a strong ownership mindset and willingness to drive outcomes
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders business-wide
- Provide leadership, training and mentoring to other software engineers
- Work effectively with product managers and other teams to achieve the best outcomes given a number of constraints
- Cultivate a healthy team culture centred on company values
- 5+ years experience building modern large scale web applications
- Experience leading an engineering team
- Experience working in an agile environment, moving fast and continuously shipping
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Track record of strong ownership and ability to self-manage work
- Strong creative problem-solving and troubleshooting ability
- Excellent technical skills, we expect you can engage with our senior architects to contribute to technical plans and designs
- Tertiary Degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related); MSc or PhD a plus
- Extensive experience managing multiple software engineering teams
- Hands on experience across end-to-end technology stack (infra, database, integration, networking, front-end and back-end application development)
- Experience with cloud services (AWS preferred)
- Experience with SOA, microservice and containerisation architecture
- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks, such as Angular, React or Vue
- Experience with Python, Go, PHP, .NET
- Experience developing public facing APIs
- Strong understanding of web security best practices
- Domain knowledge in the FinTech space
- A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career.
- Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
- Friday lunches - We finish each week with a catered lunch. Every Friday we offer a different cuisine from local restaurants.
- Fully stocked kitchens + yes we do have beer taps (and a bar with a killer view!)
- Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide event where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
- Fun events (we once built a soccer stadium in the office with two tonnes of turf).
- Located at Grosvenor Place - Home of Freelancer HQ, this iconic building and location with harbour views with weekly and complimentary classes, activities, events, promotions, competitions and deals.
- Change lives every day – Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale.
- Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry.