Technical Lead

About NetEngine and Scout Talent Group

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.

About the role

As Technical Lead, you’ll be involved in the development of both our own products (the Scout Talent suite and Marketplace), as well as our client projects and products.

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

• For each project we work on (whether it be on behalf of our clients, or when we’re working on our own products), understand the problem(s) to be solved and the technical needs. Assign resources accordingly.
• Set the technical direction we take for each project. Take a brief or vision from the project stakeholders (e.g. our clients, our Project Leaders, and/or our Product Managers) and break down the requirements from dev ops and infrastructure through to the build itself (including design).
• Identify gaps in our development team and take an active role in upskilling and resourcing as required.
• Maintain and keep high standards of security. Identify and mitigate risks.
• Be accountable for code quality, deployment and delivery of projects.
• Act 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. Right now we have a team of 11 developers (back end and front end) across Brisbane and Vancouver. We want to grow this in FY25 and you’ll play a part in setting up the optimal team structure given our headcount and what we want to achieve.

Your skills and experience

Here’s our tech stack …we want to hear from you if you have a coding background in any of the following:

• React
• React Native
• SCSS SASS
• TypeScript or Flow
• ruby on rails
• AWS essentials
• Heroku
• mysql/postgresql
• rspec
• rest apis

In addition, we’re on the lookout for someone who:

• Is solutions focused, collaborative and innovative
• Can lead the team in technology strategy, process and methodology
• Has strong written and verbal communication skills
• Is keen to, and capable of, hiring and developing high performing tech teams
• Can work well with a range of other internal and external stakeholders, promoting cross-team collaboration to ensure all projects are delivered with a high level of quality, on time, and within scope
• Has well developed organisational skills

You'll have a great time if you want

• Huge influence over the overall technical direction of our own products, and our clients’ projects/products
• The opportunity to make processes that aren’t working as well as they could, work heaps 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, our products, and a range of internal and external stakeholders
• To learn unfamiliar things quickly so you can unblock yourself
• To work on the most business critical projects, whatever they are

You may not have such a great time if you want

• 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 from home (we value in-office collaboration and want our leaders to be accessible and able to lead-by-example)

What’s on offer for you

• 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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