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SalaryHere at Skedulo we’re on a mission to support the 2.7 billion people in the world—and the companies that employ them—who do not work at a desk every day. Our global teams are collaborative, ambitious, innovative, and passionate about helping our customers realize their fullest potential by enabling their mobile workforces.
The Skedulo team is a tight-knit group of builders who are passionate about shaping the future of how work gets done outside of the traditional office setting. We are looking for motivated, self-starters who share our values, challenge the status quo, and push the pace of innovation in order to accelerate growth. If you’re drawn to solving hard problems and want to help develop software that will make a difference in people’s lives, Skedulo is for you. Visit our website to learn more about what Skedulo does and to learn more about our people and team.
As a Lead Technical Engineer within the Horizon squad, your influence extends across the team, playing a pivotal role in defining the technical direction of our platform UI framework. You remain actively engaged in hands-on Full Stack engineering responsibilities within your squad, consistently contributing to the successful delivery of features from your product roadmap. In this capacity, you provide valuable guidance, direction, and assistance to team members within your team.
In this role you are accountable for Technical Leadership and delivery with your own team and your guidance and expertise is sought by and extends across the broader engineering organisation. You can successfully anticipate and plan for technical problems. You are highly knowledgeable in major parts of your team’s technology stack and are the technical owner of significant components of our code base. You have a sustained track record of creating meaningful improvements in our applications around stability, performance, and scalability.
As a Lead Technical Engineer you have a strong ability to influence without requiring reporting authority. You facilitate cross squad work when required and are influential beyond your functional area. You are capable of driving groups of disparate interests to decisions, and clearly communicating and seeing those decisions through to impact.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Squad (Daily Ongoing Duties)
· Writing and reviewing code from the sprint backlog inline with team best practices
· Assisting in driving squad sprint execution to ensure timelines are met without compromising on quality.
· Coaching and mentoring other engineers in engineering best practices
· You may be required to participate in your squads on-call rotation as part of supporting the services your squad owns.
Technical Duties
· Accountable for Technical Leadership and delivery within your own team
· Provide effective input to technical discussions / decisions that impact the company’s ability to deliver quality engineering solutions.
· Drive observability work across your team based on the PD's observability approach.
· Lead incident response, recovery, review and remediation for your team
Communication Duties
· Communicate within your squad in an effective, clear, concise manner in both written and verbal form on technical and non technical subjects.
· Consistently work across your team to help resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
Leadership Duties
· Set short to medium-term strategic technical direction for your area of remit, able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them.
· Lead your team in strategic efforts, influencing decisions to achieve alignment on major goals.
· Train, coach and mentor other PD engineers
· Model Skedulo and PD values
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
· Must have at least 8+ years commercial experience as a Full Stack developer, with solid hands-on experience in at least some areas of our technology stack (and an appetite to learn):
· Kotlin / Typescript / React / Node / GRPC
· Must have at least 5+ years working with unit and integration testing patterns
· Must have at least 3+ years experience in software design and architecture
· Must have experience working with agile development methodologies
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
· Preferred candidates will have experience in designing and building distributed architectures that support modern web applications.
· Preferred candidates will have experience with cloud hosting (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
· Preferred candidates will have prior experience working with GraphQL.
· Preferred candidates will have a team player mentality, will be quick on their feet, agile, and aren't afraid to speak up and voice their opinion.
Benefits
· Fun, creative and fast-paced working environment
· Competitive salary
· Flextime - 3 days in the office & 2 days work from home
· Mental Health Support/Resources through Modern Health
· 3 Paid Volunteer Days per year
· 10 paid sick days per year
· 4 weeks paid leave per year
· 8 Days of public holidays per year
· Stock Options/ Equity
· Kitchen stocked with snacks & drinks
· Paid Parental Leave for both carers
· Learning & Development Stipend
· Employee Referral Bonus
· Our offices have creative, open workspaces with room to play, reflect, and relax
· Our team is extremely competitive, and we will challenge your best table tennis skills
Skedulo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that a diverse makeup of our workforce is a reflection of the communities we care about and serve. We are committed to creating a diverse workplace and inclusive culture. All qualified candidates are considered for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, age, religion, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
