Job description
Join us at Tradify Limited as a Front End Technical Lead, where you will play a crucial role in leading the development of our solutions that empower tradespeople. We are dedicated to transforming how tradespeople manage their businesses and improve their lives, and we are looking for an innovative engineer to help us in this mission.
The Technical Lead will provide specialist technical guidance to projects and peers around the design and delivery of Tradify software. You will provide exceptional solutions by engaging with peers to understand requirements, undertake development, and deliver solutions while working with peers and internal customers to ensure successful outcomes. As the technical lead, you will oversee cycles, analyse briefs, write progress reports, identify risks, and develop work schedules.
Plan, design and lead the technical aspects of projects
Provide guidance and support to the team in resolving solutions
Document architecture and design technical solutions to achieve business objectives
Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
Design and maintain highly usable solutions focussed on high levels of efficiency, reliability and always with design, configuration and test-driven best practice.
Understand the current technology landscape and how we leverage our technology investment.
Actively seek to produce value by building the right thing to provide the right business outcomes.
Support and guide less experienced members of the team.
Produce detailed design documentation as required.
Collaborate with product owners, lead architects and development managers to build out the capabilities on development and DevOps internally
Find effective ways to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of solutions that empowers our business users
Ensure you and the wider team are adding value by genuinely taking ownership of the systems it designs and delivers. Design and develop business functionality while improving code quality and infrastructure.
Build scalable, unit-testable solutions for our website applications and do code reviews.
Champion a culture of good security, coding standards, architecture patterns, resiliency, and documentation practices.
Work across all phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, operations, and support).
Lead a cross-functional team to understand requirements, do product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, and retrospective.
Communicate effectively and efficiently with all Engineering team members and promote a strong sense of teamwork.
Mentor and coach other developers and be able to collaborate with offshore teams while leading technology direction and improving the codebase.
Update the management team on the overall project, risks, and technology issues and propose suitable alternatives.
Implement constant efficiency improvement & problem-solving processes.
Lead technical innovation and automation for the services provided to customers.
Organize technical teams, distribute work and monitor progress, quality assurance, and performance, in a multidisciplinary team environment.
Work closely with the Project Managers on the planning and execution of program development activities.
Assist the Development Lead and CTO in optimizing production team efficiency.
Team leadership: supervise developers, issue follow-up and ownership, and balance work among team members according to skills and individual workload.
Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard
Communication: information gathering, status reports creation, issue-solving recommendations, providing technical guidance to other team members.
8+ years developing software applications with at least 3 years in senior/technical leadership roles and at least 3 years of commercial experience with React.
Has demonstrated experience in working and integrating with SaaS product
Demonstrated understanding and experience in modern development techniques
Proven track record in being a trusted advisor to customers
Confident communicator who can explain digital ideas clearly to non-technical audiences and work effectively with non-technical colleagues
A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience
Agile and DevOps delivery methodology/experience is desired
Models the desired values and culture of the organisation
Willingly shares knowledge, expertise and within the team and with others in the organisation
Acts with honesty and integrity
Tradify is a fast-paced, action-oriented and sometimes unpredictable and challenging work environment, where our company values underpin everything we do. We focus on providing a fun and welcoming culture and offer a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. We care deeply about diversity and inclusion and ensuring the Tech space in Aotearoa reflects our diverse communities.
For the right candidate, we offer a great benefits package:
- Hybrid Working 3 office/2 home
- A Dog Friendly office
- Legendary Monthly Team Lunches
- A values-based culture
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