Shippit Hiring for Lead Software Engineer Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time

Shippit is a powerful technology engine that is revolutionising how the world sends anything, to anyone, located anywhere. Logistics infrastructure is a sophisticated beast, and we’re not only improving the experience for everyone involved, we’re impacting the planet in a positive manner. Our deliveries are already 100% Carbon Neutral. While Australian founded, we’re truly global in our approach and have the benefit of being a free moving startup yet with the security of impacting a growing industry that needs some love and attention.

As a Lead Engineer, you are responsible for leading a squad of 4 to 8 engineers, taking ownership of key product features through all the phases of the software development cycle, working alongside one of our Product Managers.

You’ll have a solid understanding of most aspects of software development, from designing, coding, testing to DevOps, and be proficient in at least two of these domains.

You will be comfortable working side by side with product managers, designers, and other internal teams, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to Shippit customers.

You’ll also take an active part in our journey towards micro-services, working alongside our architect and infrastructure leads to deploy our new features outside of our Rails monolith.

To succeed in this role you will be agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can make it even better.

The Lead Engineer participates in all phases of the software development cycle, including analysis, design, development, debugging, testing, and deployments.

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HOW WILL THIS ROLE IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR PEOPLE OR CUSTOMERS?*

As part of the engineering team you will have a direct impact on our customers.

Our cross-functional teams own new features, maintenance and monitoring in their business area, shipping code several times a day.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Able to build an end to end approach to address sophisticated features
• Fully capable of taking key features from concept to shipping with a team of developers.
• Can provide material feedback on the work of junior and senior developers.
• Deep expertise within at least one or two programming environments.
• Solid experience in multiple technologies and proficiency in at least two areas.
• Understands the technical and business larger picture around their work, seeks clarifications from product managers and is able to negotiate trade-offs and alternative options based on planning and existing code bases constraints.
• Proactively suggests and apply corrective actions on the existing code bases.
• Can build a strategy to build and maintain quality in your area of ownership.
• Own initiatives from design to deployment and support, with planning awareness.
• Participate and contribute to the team’s life, attend learning events and propose topics of interest.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Usually, at least 8 years of demonstrated ability being a professional programmer in several technical disciplines with deep knowledge of multiple technologies and a proficiency in at least one area, within Ruby, Javascript/TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Java, Kotlin.
• Ability to mentor and train other developers on the team, including seniors.
• Experience with Object-Oriented programming.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Good communication skills
• Eager to learn from and share knowledge with others
• Enjoys analysing sophisticated problems to find simple solutions
• Excited to work closely with product, design, and users with empathy and kindness

DESIRABLE

• Experience with Agile and Extreme Programming practices.
• Experience with Cloud-based development and devops practices (AWS, Terraform etc).
• We will highly value experience with Kafka and micro-services
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

KEY BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS/INTERACTIONS

• Internal stakeholders: Engineering manager, Product Managers, Support lead, Logistics and Account Managers.
• External stakeholders: Suppliers & Partners

We’re on a mission that needs the right humans to help make ship happen!

The team behind Shippit come from diverse backgrounds, but all embody the core values that makes our business different. Our mantra is to make ship happen, every single day.

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WE PLAY THE STRAIGHT BAT* – It’s about radical candour which breed integrity and trust

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WE CREATE THE FUTURE* – It’s about innovation and disrupting the status quo

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WE RAISE THE BAR* – It’s about excellence and being better every day

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WE MAKE AN IMPACT* – It’s about ensuring that what we do makes a difference

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WE ARE GOOD HUMANS* – It’s about inclusivity of beliefs and personal circumstances

We’re a phenomenal place to work, and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #9 in Linkedin’s Hottest Startups to work at in 2021. We have a high-performance culture, everyone can make a difference, together we make great ship happen.

We have an overriding focus on wellness and are committed advocates for mental health awareness and gender pay equality & we’re committed to supporting and nurturing our team with perks like flexible work arrangements, parental leave and so much more!

“We are a 2022 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant”

Job Type: Full-time