About Woolies X

At WooliesX, our people believe in creating better everyday experiences for our community.

With 1,800+ team members, multiple practices and over 100 chapters, there's a home for everyone here. Whether your interests lie in data driven insights and product engineering, digital media, ecom, operations, customer advocacy, commercial, agile or more, you can find your squad across all kinds of capabilities.

Our squads live their "one day", every day. We work on Australia's most innovative tech, design, engineering and more to transform the way that millions of Australians live and shop. Physically, you can find us in Surry Hills, but virtually, we can be anywhere.

What are we looking for?

WooliesX is seeking an experienced Technology Lead to lead the Gecko squad for our Subscriptions business. The Tech Lead will partner closely with the squad’s Product Manager to develop the technical strategy and development roadmap to deliver customer and business outcomes. Leading a team of engineers, QA/test engineers, designers and BAs, this role is charged with creating a leading search service to power Australia’s leading supermarket with significant growth plans.

Tech Leads will work in a team of 3-5 engineers, a Product Manager, BA and QAs/test engineers to uplift the online platform that powers Australia’s leading supermarket with significant growth plans.

Tech Leads will be responsible for maintaining coding quality, design and implementation of new and agreed architectures etc. They will also participate in forums within the tribe to share knowledge, experience, best practices and collaboratively redefine the new architecture of the systems. The candidate will be expected to raise the standard of Engineering.

Our Ideal Candidate

You’re driven by a customer mission and passionate about being part of a tribe of great people. Whatever you love - design, technology, engineering, you’re active in the community that sits around it.

You orient yourself around doing what’s meaningful, purposeful and delivers value. You’re excited about being part of a digital transformation and disrupting one of Australia’s biggest companies through its new tech venture.

You’re curious and empathetic, with an eye for the bigger picture. You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning. You take authorship for what you create.

• We’re looking for someone with a passion for modern technology and an interest and experience in e-commerce.
• You have excellent leadership and communication skills.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and will thrive on analysing problems, formulating solutions, and making those a reality. You build for the long term.
• You have a passion for quality and know what best-in-class engineering looks like and want to help drive the journey.
• You’re an engineer with years of experience dealing with complex problems at scale
• You ‘get’ agile and feel comfortable giving input and collaborate on team processes.
• You’re involved in the Software Engineering community. You enjoy attending meetups, conferences, having a blog or a GitHub portfolio.
• You want to be part of a Digital Transformation and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
• Not afraid to speak up in cross-squad and tribe conversations about engineering best practices.

You don’t have to have worked in retail or with a big corporation, but you might have. Or you may have invested your talent in startups, digital SMEs or management consultancies. What you do need is proven track recording of leading innovative technology teams and contributing to a team to deliver great outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to develop the future vision for subscriptions
• Lead on technical delivery of the squad, from designing solutions to deploying them and ensuring correct operation.
• Develop high quality, scalable and performant solutions.
• Work collaboratively with Product Managers, designers, BAs, QAs and other Engineers.
• Identify talent, assist in recruiting and onboarding new engineers and build strong teams.
• Coach, mentor and help the engineers in the team to improve their skills.
• Coordinate with other Tech Leads and the architecture team on best practice and ensure all squads are aligned.
• Determine root cause for the most complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.

We need you to have

• Strong tech leadership experience.
• Strong experience in modern engineering practices and disciplines.
• Ability to stay calm in challenging circumstances and work through problems methodically.
• Ability to question decisions and challenge the status quo.
• Detail-oriented mindset
• Good understanding of Agile & Lean leadership and delivery principles. Provide input to team processes.
• Strong experience developing applications following microservice architectures

Technical Skills

• Excellent .NET skills including C#, .NET Core
• Solid experience in Unit Testing Principles
• Strong experience in microservice architecture
• Always-on microservice architecture
• Strong MS SQL Server including performance optimisation
• Strong Javascript, jQuery
• Solid experience with REST APIs
• Strong experience with event streaming, service bus or message queues (Azure Event Hubs, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, DevOps, automation
• Strong understanding of web security (OWASP TOP10, etc.)
• Strong Azure experience or another cloud provider
• Experience with architecting and setting up QA automation

It would be nice if you had

• Working with Docker containers & Terraform pipelines
• Experience with NoSql databases such as MongoDB/CosmosDB/Redis
• Experience with javascript frameworks such as Angular or React
• Castle Windsor or another IoC container
• Jira

Grow with the Group

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au. #work180 #LIremote