Supervisor, Software Engineering

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Software Engineering Team Leader (Mobile), Fortitude Valley

Software Engineering Team Leaders at Repeat manage people and work on our product. Their time is split between people management and technical delivery work.

They are technically credible and know the details of what engineers work on, half of their time is spent safeguarding their team’s health, hiring a world-class team, and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity.

The other half of their time is spent dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and other teams to solve common goals, QA and devops to deploy quality code, and support to resolve bugs. They will work across the backend (NodeJs), and frontend (React.js, Typescript) parts of our application.

Unless otherwise specified, all Software Engineering Team Leader roles at Repeat share the following requirements and responsibilities:

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
• Demonstrated experience in running Scrum or other agile rituals
• Demonstrated experience in delivering mobile applications to market, working with both Android (Google Play) and iOS (Apple Store) delivery
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• In-depth technical experience in React Native and React
• Professional experience with Typescript
• Professional experience working with NodeJS, SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and MongoDB
• Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
• Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment
• A solid understanding in core mobile concepts
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and motivate the team to be aligned with those values

Nice to have

• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the competitive video games such as Fortnite, DotA2, League of Legends, Rocket League etc
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers.
• Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
• Run agile (Scrum) project management processes
• Own the delivery of product commitments