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Team Lead (Hands on Software Engineer) (Typescript/Node/React/AWS)

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Sydney, New South Wales
Senior level
Sydney, New South Wales
Senior level
Lead a team of engineers in developing a frontend service for a Digital Experience Platform (DXP), focusing on coding and mentorship.
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Description

The Squiz product team is working to deliver a cloud-based Digital Experience Platform (DXP) with several core capabilities including Content Management, Optimisation tooling, and Platform services.

We're seeking a Software Engineer/Team Lead to join our product engineering team on a permanent basis. This role will be split roughly 50/50 hands on coding and team management.

We’re location-flexible!  This role is open to all candidates on the east coast of Australia - Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.

This role is hybrid, allowing you to work where and when works best for you.

For this role, we ask that you can demonstrate the following experience:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience in related fields
  • 5+ years of professional hands-on experience in full stack software development building and maintaining large-scale software products
  • Must have experience in our DXP tech stack - Typescript, React, Node, AWS (with a frontend leaning)
  • Strong understanding of testing principles and demonstrated experience in implementing testing strategies to improve software quality and robustness
  • Experience with Agile or other iterative development methodologies. We use Scrum for most of the teams, with some using Kanban
  • Strong understanding of secure coding practices, particularly community standards such as OWASP
  • Previous experience leading a team of technology experts including software engineers

Nice to have

  • An understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS), and/or Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

 What you would do (the role day to day): 

  • Lead a team of engineers to help build our Frontend as a Service (things like page builder, content editing etc) for our Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
  • Develop/enhance robust application code which meets all technical requirements
  • Collaborate with team members to generate User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and estimates
  • Provide guidance to junior engineers and assistance to senior engineers
  • Write and maintain software documentation

Why work for Squiz? 

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.

We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Who we are: 

Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online. 

Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.

The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.  

We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Come as you are - We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

We understand the effort it takes to apply for a role. We are committed to respond to each and every applicant, successful or not.

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Top Skills

AWS
Node.js
React
Typescript

Squiz Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office

Level 1, 435a Kent St , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000

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