Engineering Manager, Waddle, X15ventures

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia Full time

Our Purpose


Waddle helps Australian businesses unlock cash tied up in unpaid invoices, enabled via a digital platform powered by real time data.

Our mission is to build a world class invoice finance platform to support Australian businesses with their working capital needs.


Waddle is a cloud based invoice finance platform which connects to accounting software in real time, powering CBA's digital cash flow product, Stream Working Capital.

The Waddle team is in an exciting period of accelerated growth following a recent acquisition by x15 ventures.

We are looking to build a team of talented technologists who are passionate about supporting Australian businesses access innovative working capital solutions.


How you'll make an impact


You will play a key leadership role in supporting, developing and coaching a team of enthusiastic engineers who run the Waddle platform in addition to liaising with key stakeholders across the value chain.


This role sits on the Waddle leadership team and reports directly to the Waddle Managing Director and requires excellent collaboration with the Senior Engineer Manager.


What you will do day-to-day

  • Support, coach and develop a team of engineers in running the Waddle platform including maintaining a resilient and scalable platform. This includes playing a proactive leadership role in transitioning the Waddle team into x15ventures.
  • Ensure the team maintains exceptional incident and support management in line with predefined service agreements.
  • Participate in product proposition sessions to provide insights, ballpark estimates and guidance to product and always have an appropriately sized and relevant backlog for the team
  • Maintain a close relationship with Product on their roadmap and strategy
  • Help to maintain solution architecture and highlight any areas that require input from other specialists
  • Use your knowledge and lived experience of best practices to ensure that accessibility, performance, and other engineering concerns are of the highest standard
  • Provide continuous feedback to team members and be a contributor to continuous improvement for Waddle and our stakeholders
  • Identify and correct operational bottlenecks

What you will need to be successful in this role:

  • Prior experience in leading high performing software engineering teams
  • Handson experience operating in a highavailability and automated technical environment.
  • Experience defining and building secure solutions and architecture using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot and
  • Handson experience with release processes and CI/CD pipelines
  • Exposure to infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
  • Exposure to containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes being used in production environments.
  • Experience in managing internal and external stakeholder expectations.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action.
  • Passionate about designing and operating highly available systems in AWS environments for robustness and automation.
  • Positive team player that can work collaboratively.
  • Able to connect in a meaningful way with technical staff and nontechnical stakeholders.
**Desired Experience: - Experience with Financial Services

  • Experience working in an Agile environment.

What's in it for you?

  • We offer flexible work options to support your wellbeing and life stuff
  • We pay generous equal parental leave because family is hugely important
  • We celebrate an authentic team culture and promote collaboration, innovation, and general mucking in
  • You can choose your own adventure with access to communities of practice and development opportunities where you can learn from and grow with others
  • We support hybrid working and have a beautiful base at South Eveleigh a stateoftheart precinct that's part of Sydney's wider technology community
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