InLife Independent Living Hiring for Software Development Manager Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

About us

InLife is a rapidly growing, financially healthy social enterprise with a vision that all people with disability live full and fulfilling lives. We help to make this happen by supporting our clients and their carers with high quality, hassle-free personal assistance in the home.

As well as the basics of personal care and support, we provide a supportive and empowering environment to help navigate life’s choices and opportunities. Everyone at InLife is working towards the same purpose: to positively transform the experience of disability support. With a genuine desire to make a difference, we believe we’re doing it, one team at a time.

We understand that if we’re serious about our vision to transform the experience of disability support (and we are!), we need to employ great people and help them perform at their best. No matter whether you work directly with our clients or behind-the-scenes at InLife HQ, you’ll play an important part in making sure we deliver outstanding service.

The role

A user-friendly, fully cloud-based platform and efficient operational systems are our backbone, freeing up our outstanding team of disability professionals to focus on direct client support. Our current processes and systems have served us well, but it is now the time to take a step back and figure out what’s required to scale the business well into the future.

We have recently developed an exciting vision for this future state, that defines how a tech savvy disability agency can use the latest tools and innovations to create an outstanding experience for both clients and staff.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager – a proactive IT professional who is passionate about delivering great outcomes for their stakeholders. You will be unafraid to challenge the status quo and relentlessly explore continuous improvement opportunities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development , as well as experience managing and leading development teams and delivering software through agile methodologies.

To be successful you’ll have

• 5+ years experience of leadership delivering technology projects
• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or similar

Capability

• Proven capacity to introduce and embed new ideas and approaches into existing working practices, together with a strong ability to adapt to change
• High attention to detail with the ability to instil a culture committed to highest quality
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Strong customer service skills, personable, professional and approachable – with a flexible approach

Business & Projects

• Prior experience developing and delivering IT Strategy in partnership Executives
• Experience developing and implementing best practice IT processes, policies and procedures
• Experience in overseeing application security and mitigations, including disaster recovery
• Strong project management experience and the ability to drive multiple projects to closure in a timely manner

Teams & Collaboration

• Experience in developing agile operating models
• Strong experience with agile portfolio delivery and planning
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification ( e.g. SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner) – Desirable
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing small to medium size multi-disciplined development teams and external vendors

Technical

• Strong background in software development , with experience in:
  • Web application frameworks: React, Angular, Vue.js or ASP.NET (http://asp.net/)
  • Programming languages: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C#, or PHP
  • Databases : Postgres, MySQL
  • Unix, Linux
  • Using and/or building APIs: REST, GraphQL
  • Source Control : Github
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, platform as a service (PaaS), APIs, open data, microservices, event-sourced architecture and predictive analytics
• Exposure and understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Azure DevOps)
• Familiar and supportive of CI/CD, automating pipelines, and engineering for cloud native, highly available and scalable systems.
• Experienced in defining and/or reviewing solution architecture – Desirable

Additional Information

We’re a not not-for-profit, so you get access to salary packaging. Most team members can claim an additional $15,900 tax free, plus spend $2,650 on meals and entertainment (tax free). For more details go to gosalary.com.au

We require all of our staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19. You will need to be fully vaccinated or hold a relevant medical exemption to work with us. More detail is available on our website. “Fully vaccinated” means you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines, as outlined by the ATAGI statement on defining up to date vaccination for COVID 19. (https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-on-defining-up-to-date-status-for-covid-19-vaccination)

A word about Diversity and Inclusion

At InLife, diversity and inclusion is part of our DNA. We celebrate the amazing differences we all bring to our work and we actively ensure that everyone feels safe and supported in our workplaces.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone and our hiring decisions will never be based on things such as your gender identity, disability, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural background – because they simply aren’t relevant to doing an awesome job (and you are protected from this kind of discrimination under Australian law)

We also know that we continue to learn more about inclusion every day, so if there is something you think we could do differently to make InLife a place you could picture yourself working, we’re all ears.

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a cover letter telling us more about why you’d be a great fit. We know how much time goes into preparing applications so we make sure that we read and respond to every application we receive.