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SalaryNine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.
We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.
Please note: This role will be advertised during our Christmas shut down period. Applications will be reviewed upon our return from 8th January 2024. Thank you in advance for your understanding while our Talent Acquisition team take a break. We look forward to connecting with you in the New Year and wish you a safe and happy holiday.
Job Description
Australia's leading broadcast video-on-demand platform, 9Now, offers a destination for consumers around Australia to catch up on their favourite programs and watch live TV anywhere, anytime, on their chosen device.
We’re looking for a highly-skilled technical leader with proven people and development team management experience to lead a team of engineers focused on delivering an amazing experience on Connected TVs.
You will have a passion for managing people and a background in building high-quality front-end applications. You will be able to organise and motivate teams to consistently deliver on significant roadmaps of enhancements and lead a team of high-performing Engineers.
You are adept at explaining and articulating complex technical concepts with your peers and business stakeholders. You will manage multiple relationships, including product managers, senior tech leadership and external vendors.
Day to day you will:
- Lead, manage and mentor a small team of frontend software engineers
- Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
- Act as an enabler, removing roadblocks and single points of sensitivities for your team and stakeholders by cross-skilling your team when possible
- Maintain high-quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
- Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
- Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity, capability and adoption of best practices and best-in-class technology
- Provide one-on-one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
- Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
You are passionate about your team and their professional development. You remain engaged in their wellbeing, growing their skillset and assisting them in finding great opportunities to further themselves.
You are keen and capable of being ‘hands-on’, but you choose when and if you should be involved. Your experience in this area allows you to provide meaningful support to your team by reviewing work and providing feedback.
Your ‘can-do’ and open customer-centred approach makes you approachable to work with. You will contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals. Agile work & planning practices are second nature to how you operate.
What you’ll know
- Previous experience as a senior or lead front-end engineer
- Strong experience in web or software development (ideally 4 years minimum)
- Strong technical knowledge and hands-on development capability, ideally in Javascript and ReactJS
- Proven skills in creating a high-performance team environment
- Managing yourself and your team in a fast-changing environment with competing priorities
- A strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologies
- Excellent communication skill
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
