Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Mable, a leading Australian healthtech platform, as an Engineering Team Lead. In this hands-on role, you will guide your team in building high-quality solutions for critical business flows, collaborating closely with Design, Data, and Product teams. You will promote modern engineering practices, mentor your squad, and work on non-functional requirements. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical background in API development and re-platforming, prior team lead experience, and excellent communication skills. Mable offers a dynamic team environment, opportunities for professional development, and various benefits including parental leave, flexible work arrangements, and a reward and recognition program.

Requirements

• Strong technical background focusing mainly on API development and re-platforming
• Previous team lead experience
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and the testing pyramid
• Good understanding of modern CD and software operations practices such as trunk-based development, 12 factor application principles in practice, Docker, utilisation of monitoring tools like Datadog, etc
• Understanding of software design patterns and when to use them
• Understanding of domain driven design in software engineering and how to use DDD concepts in practice
• Excellent communication skills and team-oriented mindset
• You have a ‘leave it better than you found it’ attitude towards code

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a cross-functional squad to deliver high-quality features
• Assist in maintaining the product backlog alongside the product manager by providing technical input on initiative prioritisation and ensuring epics are broken down into uniformly sized tasks and sequenced for delivery
• Help to monitor team’s delivery cadence and work with a team on improving on their efficiency
• Promote sound, modern engineering practices and tools within the squad (TDD, pair programming, efficient branching strategies, etc)
• Teach and mentor your squad on making sound technology choices, software design practices and the ways of working
• Work on non-functional requirements of our software projects alongside our Infrastructure Engineers, Principle Engineers, Engineering Managers and Quality Coaches
• Collaborate on and recommend sound DevOps practices in the team
• Manage direct reports for at most one squad

Preferred Qualifications

• Angular experience
• Ruby on Rails experience
• Knowledge of AWS
• Kubernetes deployment experience
• People management experience

Benefits

• Learn from industry experts, experienced leaders, and on-the-job opportunities
• Access parental leave
• Get 14 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 6 weeks of paid leave for secondary carers plus superannuation
• Work with flexibility
• We’re a hybrid workplace, balancing time in the office with remote work
• Flexi Leave Days
• Get one extra paid leave day per quarter for what makes you happy
• Take a floating public holiday
• Acknowledge a significant day your way with family and friends
• Be rewarded
• Celebrate wins and recognise great performance with an easy and accessible Reward and Recognition program