Engineering Team Lead

NZ Hi-Tech Company of the Year 2023, Cin7 is a fast-growing global software company that provides solutions for modern-day product sellers. We help these sellers keep track of their inventory at scale, and help them sell their products across multiple sales channels around the world.

Cin7 is expanding very quickly with a mission to become the leading Inventory Management Software brand in the world, and we are looking for a motivated and driven individual to join the team.

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will assume a pivotal role in leading and managing a cross-functional software delivery team responsible for the development and maintenance of Cin7 Products, along with their supporting applications and services. 

Your primary focus will be to guide and support the team in defining and executing product and technology roadmaps. Your leadership will be crucial in ensuring continuous improvement in delivery practices, fostering innovation, and maintaining a high standard of software delivery to meet customer needs. Collaborating with local and global leaders, you will contribute to enhancing engineering processes, cultivating a positive engineering culture, and addressing recruitment and collaborative workflows with other departments.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Guide and support the team in defining and executing product and technology roadmaps
• Oversee projects ensuring they meet quality standards and deadlines.
• Act as a liaison between the development team and other departments or stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve problems, escalating issues appropriately.
• Set and monitor team targets and objectives, ensuring they align with overall company goals.
• Evaluate, develop, and ensure the success of team members.
• Ensure team behavior is in alignment with Cin7 values (Strive, Passion, Collaboration, Innovate & Integrity)
• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment that promotes creativity and excellence.
• Communicate regularly with senior leaders and stakeholders to provide updates on team performance and project status.

Team Practices

• Generating ideas with team members and offering insightful solutions.
• Own support escalations of bug fixes to drive improved organizational metrics.
• Lead implementation of best practices, standards and procedures – including quality and delivery methodologies.
• Ensuring delivery of the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of development and integrations created in agreement with the Department Leader of Engineering.
• Qualify requirements process and develop related software applications and programs.
• Ensure the delivery of application code meets defined requirements and adheres to design standards, including but not limited to, unit tests and software documentation artifacts.
• Provide impact analysis on proposed upgrades and enhancements to guide delivery impacts and trade offs.
• Develops and implements strategies for continuous improvement of Engineering within Cin7.
• Leverage your technical depth to set a personal standard for excellence within the team and act as an Engineering advocate across the wider business.
• Develop positive and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders, particularly Product Managers.

Requirements:

• Strong work experience in software development and proven experience in leading and managing technical teams (Saas experience preferred)
• Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, and best practices within the .Net framework
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools.
• Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible working - 3 days work from home per week as well as well as the option to work 30 days a year every six months remote from anywhere in the world
• Fully paid health insurance
• Celebrate your birthday with a paid day off
• A Global 'Cin7 Day' celebrated companywide, providing you a dedicated holiday to focus on your own wellbeing
• External training opportunities
• Monthly Social Fridays drinks and food on us
• Discounted gym membership as well as discounts at some local eateries etc
• Recruitment referral bonus
• Relaxed dress code
• Modern office in Grafton complete with pool table, table tennis, PS5, Coffee machines etc

Why CIN7?

At CIN7, we make great products available to everyone. Every month, millions of sales orders flow through our platform reducing the cost, effort and time for product sellers so they can quickly get products to customers and build their brands without worrying about their operations. We pride ourselves on providing Inventory Management and Supply Chain software to help medium-large product businesses thrive in a highly competitive, digital world. CIN7 centrally manages inventory across multiple locations and channels, connecting 500+ systems to support receiving, selling and shipping stock.

We value diversity at Cin7, and bring people into the heart of everything we do. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team