Description:
The primary purpose of this role is to provide strong technical leadership skills, savvy and curiosity in a close team of distributed engineers, and be a hands-on contributor also.
Your role and influence is key within the business, working with stakeholders from every team in the company to collaborate, communicate, design, deliver and enhance cool solutions that actually make an impact.
It’s not just what we do, but how we do it that’s critical to everyone succeeding. Your experience and skills should be relentless in continuously improving how we deliver; using data to learn and tweak our agile flow as we grow.
This is eCommerce. It’s fast, exciting and extremely rewarding.
If you’re curious, calm under pressure, and like to get scrappy, then you’ll thrive here.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of 5 distributed engineers, ensuring quality, continuity and stability of the Vinomofo codebase.
- Design with best practices in mind, and the best solutions. We’re here to find the strongest outcomes, not the fastest.
- Design with customer focused outcomes, mobile first, and web security always in your mind.
- Breaking down development tickets to their lowest granularity to avoid chunky code.
- Be an individual contributor, whether it be an especially tricky development item, cloud infrastructure administration or even responding to internal support requests from our customer facing teams.
- Be an advocate for peer programming as a baked in practice.
- Communicate articulately and with brevity.
- Work in lockstep with the Product Manager, as partners.
- Your skills and experience will help drive and influence improving our agile development and delivery processes and practices. There are no egos here. Calling things out when appropriate and driving improvement is the responsibility of all of us.
- Prioritise and allocate work across the team and, in partnership with the CTO and Product Manager, helping manage transparent expectations to the business with respect to bandwidth. We can’t please everyone, especially in a fast paced eCommerce environment, so making sound decisions with clarity and reason is a critical responsibility of this role.
- In collaboration with the CTO and eCommerce Product Manager, build a strong technical culture for Vinomofo with curiosity and humility.
- You’ll mentor other team members, through your experience and candid communication.
- Stay current and curious with emerging industry trends & best practices. We’re always open to trying new things, and have the freedom to explore.
- Provide input to build strong professional relationships with our technology partners.