Senior Backend Developer Team Leader

NetEngine is a Brisbane-based software engineering company, offering a range of technical and digital solutions and services to clients of all shapes and sizes locally, across Australia and globally.

We’re an experienced, on-shore team, who value face to face collaboration, efficiency and providing affordable services at competitive rates.

While our development skills are through the roof, we also have human skills - which means we can crack a joke, drink litres of coffee, and have a Friday arvo beer with our colleagues and clients. Our technical and people skills mean we tend to nurture and build long-term partnerships with our clients.

We deliver solutions and products with clear, user-friendly interfaces, ensuring the software development journey is seamless across a range of industries and innovations.

NetEngine is part of Scout Talent Group (STG), a service-enabled SaaS business delivering outstanding talent software and services which help our clients to grow their organisations. Our Group Purpose (our ‘Why’) is to connect people to grow companies, careers and communities.

STG is paving the way when it comes to recruitment and talent tech, and we plan to IPO within 2-3 years.

As a Senior Backend Developer Team Leader, you’ll lead the development of both our own products (the Scout Talent suite and Marketplace) and our client projects and products. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Understanding the technical needs of each project and assigning resources accordingly.
• Setting the technical direction for each project. Breaking down requirements from dev ops and infrastructure to the build itself (including design).
• Identifying gaps in our development team and actively upskilling and resourcing as required.
• Maintaining high standards of security and mitigating risks.
• Being accountable for code quality, deployment, and project delivery.
• Acting as a sounding board for the team when development decisions need to be made.

You’ll be a member of STG’s leadership team, reporting to Scout Talent Group's Head of Product & Development. Our team currently includes 11 developers (back end and front end) across Brisbane and Vancouver, and we aim to grow this team in FY25. You’ll play a key role in setting up the optimal team structure given our headcount and goals.

We’re looking for a Senior Developer Team Leader with expertise in backend languages including:

• Ruby on Rails (RoR)
• Infrastructure
• AWS architecture
• Terraform
• CICD pipeline
• Docker (containerization)

While not mandatory, knowledge of Front End (FE) languages is highly desirable and will be valuable to the team.

In addition, you should:

• Be solutions-focused, collaborative, and innovative.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Be capable of hiring and developing high-performing tech teams.
• Work well with a range of internal and external stakeholders, promoting cross-team collaboration to ensure all projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with a high level of quality.
• Have well-developed organizational skills.

• Huge influence over the overall technical direction of our products and client projects/products.
• The opportunity to improve processes and make them work better.
• To lead and influence developers.
• High-level goals and a lot of freedom to run.
• To get your hands dirty, working directly with our team, products, and various stakeholders.
• To learn unfamiliar things quickly to unblock yourself.
• To work on the most business-critical projects, whatever they are.

• To hand off the things you don't like to someone else
• To be fed work
• To work on just one project (this role will require the ability to shift focus between, and manage, different sets of requirements)
• To work fully remotely (this role follows a hybrid work model; we value in-office collaboration and want our leaders to be accessible and able to lead-by-example)

Please note that 100% in-office attendance may be required in the first few weeks during your training and onboarding.

• Remuneration
  • An attractive remuneration package, based on your skills and experience
  • Performance-based incentives in addition to your retainer, to further increase your earnings
  • Our 2-3 year IPO plan means we’ve opened up an Employee Share Option Program which we’ll make available to you as a senior leader
• Learning and Development
  • Lots of learning opportunities, given the range of products/projects/clients
  • Annual budget for training, coaching or personal/professional support
  • Regular career growth conversations (we call them 1-to-1s)
  • Because you’ll be joining STG’s Leadership Team, you’ll be given exposure and opportunities to learn about the commercial side of the business
• Celebration and Fun
  • Quarterly company parties to recognise and celebrate team member success
  • Quarterly off-site STG Leader conferences
  • Monthly team retros
  • Social drinks on Fridays
  • Health and wellness initiatives such as Step Forward and Tour de Office
  • Opportunity to attend STG’s annual Global Gathering

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