Head Of Engineering - Php Hands On - Ecommerce Industry

Sydney, Australia
Permanent
$200000 - $230000 per annum A global branded e-Commerce company with HQ in Sydney are looking for a Hands On Head of Engineering who comes as a strong visionary and with excellent leadership skills.
We have a great opportunity for someone that has a track record of scaling out a successful product (e.g. into other market and other industries). You will work closely with and manage a first rate development team of 15, building cutting edge and award winning solutions. This opportunity will allow you to come on board and play a major role in the direction of the technology within the business and will be reporting directly to the CTO.
You will be required to provide technical direction for the product, implement architectural decisions as well as guiding the engineering team on how to achieve the best out come. This role is for someone that is highly driven to lead teams through good times and tough.
Requirements:

• Substantial PHP development experience (10+ years HANDS ON at least).
• Stack - Laravel, React, TypeScript, AWS, GO Microservices.
• Strong managerial skills with a proven track record of scaling effective teams.
• Ability to talk heavy tech while also being able to speak at the business table.
• Proven experience in delivering next generation headless architecture is a bonus.
• Development of large and complex applications.
• Experience within the fast-paced e-Commerce industry is desirable.
• Great communication is mandatory.
• Experience in guiding & leading a team with modern Dev-op Practices
• Ability to lead high level senior engineers to an agreed decision and solution.

This is a unique opportunity to become part of an already successful business that has a major strong hold in Australia & US markets with major potential for growth. You will be given complete level of control over technology and have the full back of the CEO from management to development.
Budget is up to $230k + Super.
My client is currently interviewing, and the right person can be on-boarded quickly.
Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity and send through an updated CV to michael.fahy@opusrs.com.au or call me on 0429 582 965 for a confidential conversation.