Lead Software Engineer

MyPass Global is a multi-award-winning workforce compliance software company. Our cutting-edge technology helps companies in high-stakes industries reduce risk, save up to 70% on back-office costs, and create safer work environments through our digital workforce solutions.

With our industry-first digital Skills Passport, workers can seamlessly manage their training and competency information. In essence, we are building a global worker credentialing platform designed to create safer, more connected, and agile workplaces. As we rapidly expand with offices worldwide, we are seeking the next generation of innovative MyPassers to join us in shaping the future of our industry.

The role:

• We are seeking a dynamic Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, and optimisation of high-quality, scalable applications and systems within our international team. This role involves leading a squad of software and test engineers, ensuring the delivery of robust solutions through clean, efficient, and well-documented code. This role encompasses the full software development lifecycle—from planning and design to deployment, operation, and maintenance—while providing leadership and line management to a globally distributed engineering squad.

Day to day:

• Lead and manage the members of a software engineering squad.
• Providing strong technical leadership and coaching to your team and the department.
• Working in an agile software engineering environment to deliver awesome features that will delight our customers.
• Writing software in an iterative environment using continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Working in a collaborative environment to design, prove, document, engineer, test, deploy, scale and operate software.
• Contributing technically to ensure design feasibility; approach; usability; architecture; code quality; testability; scalability; and performance.
• Suggesting appropriate technologies, techniques and standards to help deliver our goals.
• Participating in scrum ceremonies to help provide visibility and accountability towards delivery of projects you’re working on.
• Pairing with other team members.
• Supporting and developing other software engineers by providing advice, coaching, mentoring and educational opportunities.
• Working to help ensure homogeneous code contributions from everyone on your team.
• Working with a geographically distributed software engineering team.
• Assisting with driving the adoption of good practices across the department.
• Updating job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and technologies; participating in educational opportunities; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organisations.

Our ideal MyPasser:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience in leading a full-stack software engineering team
• Strong skills in software design and documentation
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Expertise in test-driven development (TDD)
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Extensive experience with software testing and quality assurance
• Proficiency in technical governance and oversight
• Strong analytical skills for evaluating and interpreting information
• Comprehensive knowledge of software design principles
• Excellent documentation skills for clear and concise technical writing
• Effective teamwork and collaboration skills
• We are language agnostic but our stack is: Java, Kotlin, Angular, React, AWS, Springboot. Rational databases: Postgres, MySql, MS SQL Server, neo4j or Graph database highly desirable.

Life at MyPass:

• Flexible Hybrid - Ability to mix your working week between the MyPass office and your home office
• Paw Friendly - Pet-friendly office in the CBD
• Celebrate You - Gift cards on your work anniversaries
• Be Healthy - Wellbeing policy with a strong focus on whatever makes you feel good from the inside out, free subscription to the WithU app and complimentary office yoga & pilates sessions
• Fuel Your Growth Journey - Unlocking your potential with a blend of in-person and online learning and development opportunities
• Be Comfortable - Casual Friday every day!
• We Love to Have Fun - Team outings, weekly lunches, team events, the list goes on…
• Generous Employee Referral Program - Rewards for referring top talent

Feel valuable

We’re big on culture. So much so that the team we've carefully curated are not only high-performers, they're also excellent humans. We foster an environment that is open, respectful and collaborative, where the status quo is challenged and both success and failure are celebrated.

MyPass champions diversity at all levels of the company, and we live by our core values that set us apart. We cultivate an inclusive culture and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our mantra is to make things happen, every single day.