Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

You will be hands-on, building features and improvements to the OutThink platform in a secure, well-tested and performant way. You will be an architectural and technical authority and must instill trust and guide team members to make effective decisions. You ll advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team, in the process influencing the overall objectives and long-range goals. You ll craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review. You will lead your local team, helping them to grow their skills and experience, whilst seeking engineering excellence in everything they do. You will provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture and other areas. You will actively help seek and hire A-player talent, and conduct interviews for candidates. You will contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team and give clear feedback around individuals performance. You will work hand-in-hand with Product Managers to run agile project management processes, and contribute to Product Roadmaps and Product Requirements Documents handovers. You will take responsibility for your teams timely deliveries, including ensuring agile deployments to production environments are on-time, appropriately code reviewed, tested, stable, and achieve a high quality coding standard. You will work closely with the CTO to draft Engineering Strategic Plans and Engineering KPIs. You will foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary. Your background First and foremost, a great attitude. We re pioneering on new frontiers. You ve got the right attitude towards a sense of urgency, risk and uncertainty about the future that comes with working at an early-stage scale-up. You ll be self-managing, self-motivated. This is an opportunity to be involved in an exciting journey and be a core foundational member of engineering at OutThink. Proven academic or other excellence. You have a strong educational foundation and can demonstrate a track record of exceptional performance - whether that be academics, sport, professional, or another domain of interest. Collaborative working style. We value getting things done over rigid processes so you will work well with others, knowing when to get consensus and when to push for closure with decisiveness. You re an effective team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You re able to work collaboratively in diverse and cross-functional teams. You ll also have proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal. Leadership Excellence. You will have proven experience mentoring, leading or managing high-performing engineering teams, with a commitment to personal and professional growth - for yourself and your team. We ll also look to you to bring the following to the table: Strong hands-on development experience, including architectural design and writing code for backend services with Microsoft .NET 8.0 using C#. Extensive experience in software design using design principles, design patterns, modeling and architectural patterns. Extensive commercial experience of building and working with cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions with Microsoft Azure. A deep understanding of data science and data engineering. You will ideally also have experience of building and deploying machine learning solutions in a production environment. Proven experience working with event driven distributed systems, including message brokers and asynchronous messaging patterns. Experience of building cloud-native solutions with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service. Experience of building solutions incorporating both SQL Server and NoSQL Databases such as Redis, MongoDB and Azure Cosmos DB. Experience of TDD and Unit Testing Frameworks, such as MSTest or NUnit.