Team Lead, Engineering

Company Description

Whether you’re working from home or on your way to the office, chances are you’re probably reading this because you’re seeking a new adventure, or you’re up for a new challenge. GROW Inc might just be that for you! 

So, who is GROW Inc? 
Founded in 2016, we’re the Australian FinTech success story you probably haven’t heard about. We’re solving big problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industry. The administration platforms (the software that tracks everything to do with your super) are built on things you or your parents would recognise from the glory days of 90’s computing.

How are we doing it?
We’re solving this by disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology which improves the financial wellbeing of Australians. We’re making Super more timely and information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost effective solutions.

We’re rebels with a cause. We’re authentic, diverse, and embrace our differences as we continue to put a dent in the universe. We know diversity of thought helps us to build better solutions for our customers which is why we encourage the entire GROW team to bring their whole selves to work each and every day

Job Description

The Team Lead, Engineering is a people leader for the engineering team and takes ownership for delivery of committed work, engineering standards and people.

• You will be managing a small number of engineers while directly contributing to the successful outcomes of the team by supporting excellent engineering and delivery practices which enable rapid delivery of high quality software engineering.

Delivery

• Focus 50% hand-on Software Development, 50% on Software Delivery practices i.e. requirement gathering, solution architecture, refinement and people management. 

• Write clean code, perform code reviews, produce documentation and take the lead in solving complex technical challenges.

• Drive a shift-left approach by embedding quality practices early in the development lifecycle, enabling faster feedback and reducing defects downstream.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify test scenarios and acceptance criteria that align with the quality strategy.

• Drive operational excellence by contributing to run books, incident response protocols, and reliability improvement initiatives.

• Ensure your teamʼs delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate.

Engineering Excellence:

• Technology Practices & Adoption - build a culture of continuous improvement of Engineering practices.
• Technology Strategy & Roadmap

Leadership & Technical Roadmap:

• Work with your group leadership on roadmap alignment and planning for future work.

• You will be responsible for supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome GROWgetters, empowering them to deliver high-quality software to customers and fostering the growth of a world-class engineering culture.

• You'll maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably.

• Your focus will be on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team makes progress towards their goals. 

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience of developing complex applications, large distributed systems or data pipelines.

• Strong Software Engineering background focused on Backend engineering 

• Strong hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin, Spring/Spring Boot. 

• Strong experience in API and Event driven microservices.

• Experience with performance testing tools like k6, Artillery or Gatling.

• Experience working with AWS.

• Experience working with SQL and relational databases like PostgreSQL.

• Experience working with containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience working with observability tools like Elastic Search.

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

• Experience with modern CI/CD processes and related tools like BuildKite, Jenkins or ArgoCD.

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead, and proven track record of delivering complex distributed applications

• You are self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills. 

• You are a coach & mentor - utilising software delivery, technical experience and expertise, offer the right knowledge, at the right time in the right way - understanding why and how people learn. 

• You live the GROW values.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working at GROW

• ME Days - Take an additional 3 days of leave off per year for wellness!
• Birthday Leave - Take an extra day off per year on your birthday!
• Community give back days - organised by us!
• Learning & Development Budget - up to $500 per year to use on your own development!
• Hybrid Work Arrangement - We have a true hybrid arrangement!
• Exciting Discounts - Think movie tickets, gift cards & even electronics

Looking for a job can be stressful and we don’t want you agonising over the wording of your cover letter, so don’t include one. Just make sure your CV is well-written and detailed enough so we can get a better idea of the type of person you are. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, but you feel inspired to join our mission, we encourage you to send in your application. You never know, you could be the perfect person to join our team!

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