Technical Lead

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Brief Overview Of This Role

We are looking for a Tech Lead with mobile/full-stack experience to join our supportive and collaborative mobile team.

This role would be great for you if you are looking for more technical authority and autonomy with your work. Maybe you’ve worked in startups or had your startup that has finished up, and you want to join a team that moves very quickly and places a huge emphasis on product and engineering. Maybe you don’t have quite as many years of experience as others, but think you would do well at taking on more responsibility. Your background and years of experience are less important than your enthusiasm and willingness to grow into a more responsible role where you can make a meaningful impact.

You will have the opportunity to be a part of a small internal team working on impactful features used by thousands of users. You will have direct engagement, collaboration and communication with our VP of Product Strategy, CTO and CEO.

Employment

- Full-time
- Based: Sydney, Australia / Melbourne, Australia / Remote - Australia
- Remuneration: AUD $160,000 - $220,000 pending your experience

Why should I consider joining Sitemate?

- Check out Sitemate’s team at the offsite: Sitemate Offsite 2022, Sitemate Offsite 2023 & recently Sitemate Offsite 2024
- You can see what people really think about working at Sitemate here: Working at Sitemate
- 2024 Podcast: CEO Hartley Pike on his personal journey, scaling Sitemate, diversity and culture at sitemate
- 2023 Podcast: Listen to CMO Lance Hodgson’s tips on how to supercharge your career
- 2022 Podcast: Listen to CEO Hartley Pike speak about the company’s founding and broader Go To Market strategy
- 2022 Podcast: Listen to CTO Tim Bray speak about building high quality features that solve customer problems at Sitemate
- We have equal opportunity for applicants of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities & people with disabilities - Sitemate's team is proudly diverse and accessible. 55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. 43% identify as female. Our team ranges in age from 22 to 51 years old.
- We're proud to have a global team with team members from Australia, Kenya, Brazil, France, Chile, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Vietnam, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.
- Our Sydney office in Haymarket has fantastic on-site facilities including a rooftop garden, wellness centre, showers and cycle storage. The transport connections are excellent. Every Monday, the team enjoys a catered lunch together from one of the many nearby options.
- You will be remunerated based on your performance. If you are performing well, you won’t need to wait 3 years or have to find better offers elsewhere to receive an increase to your remuneration. 7 out of the last 10 remuneration increases for Sitemate team members have been made pro-actively by management, without the individual needing to even raise the topic of remuneration.
- You will get a laptop and a budget to set up your home office.
- You will have visibility into the standardised career development plan for your role, and access to a professional learning and development budget.
- You will get additional benefits and support as parents - with paid leave for both primary (min. 16 weeks) and secondary carers (min. 6 weeks) including adoption, as well as support and leave for the tragic circumstances of stillbirth or miscarriage.
- You will have 20 days PTO, as well as paid compassionate & bereavement leave, sick & carer’s leave, and the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks per year.
- You will get equity options and ownership in Sitemate on a standard vesting schedule. See here for a general overview of how this works.
- Sitemate has grown from 5 employees in 2018 to 150+, and we’re moving into the next stage of growth We have a product that customers are strongly engaged with, and every month we get 1000s of new leads in our core/target regions with 0 cold calling and limited marketing spend (made possible by strong word-of-mouth and organic marketing efforts).
- Sitemate’s founders have diverse backgrounds - one coming from engineering on major infrastructure projects; the second coming from product and graphic design. This brings a unique perspective internally where we blend deep industry experience with a passion (obsession) for modern best practices in product design.
- Sitemate graduated from Australia’s #1 Technology Company Accelerator - Startmate.
- Sitemate has strong financial backing from Blackbird (Australia and NZ’s #1 Vc), Shearwater Growth Capital & Marbruck Investments.
- See info on our latest raise here.

What is the working environment like at Sitemate?

- We are very transparent - monthly Allhands meetings provide the team with direct insight into team updates, customer stories, hiring plans and key metrics (NPS, Revenue, Financial Performance). During this Allhands meeting we also hear one ‘life story’ from one of our team each month - learning about different countries and cultures around the world.
- We place an extremely high value on your time - you won’t be spending your days wasting time on fighting internal systems, botched together spreadsheet processes or doing data entry.
- We use best in class systems that are seamlessly integrated to deliver our team the right information at the right time, allowing them to get their work done efficiently and to a very high standard.
- You will have a core and close team around you, but you will also be exposed to and working directly with multiple departments - engineering, product, design, marketing, sales and customer success.
- You will have a high degree of autonomy, as the focus is on outcomes and not hours. If you want to block off a few hours to run a personal errand or block off an hour to pick up the kids from school - no worries. No one will be monitoring your time.
- We are constantly working to minimise the number of group meetings - daily check ins are all done asynchronously (in your own time) each morning. But spontaneous 1:1s or small sessions are strongly encouraged

What does Sitemate do, exactly?

- Sitemate builds best in class software products for the built world.
- Industrial companies operating in the built world are facing a number of mission critical challenges - changes in work behaviour as Generation Z start to enter the workforce as mobile first users of software, and the drastic shift away from traditional mining to renewable energy projects such as wind farms and solar farms.
- Our first product - Dashpivot, is a platform where industrial style companies streamline and standardise their processes in a new digital format. This new digital format enables them to complete and track work in the field on a mobile or tablet, and automate repetitive tasks and tracking through automated workflows and real-time analytics.

See Some Of Our User Reviews For Dashpivot Here

- G2 Crowd
- Trust Radius

What will I be doing day to day in this role?

- Lead the development of our two mobile products and their backend services - from architecting new features to improving performance and code quality.
- Own and drive the technical vision, ensuring all work aligns with long-term architecture and product strategy.
- Mentor and support engineers on the mobile team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and other Engineering teams to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Take the lead on diagnosing and resolving production issues, leveraging tools like Bugsnag and Datadog, and coordinating hotfixes with speed and precision.
- Continuously improve engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD, performance monitoring, and technical documentation.

What will be the biggest challenges for me in this role?

- Our mobile products seem simple to our users, but contain a high degree of technical complexity - from shared components across multiple mobile apps, to backend services that only serve the mobile client - there will be a lot to learn.
- Pace - we move very quickly, so you’ll need to be excited to come in and learn extremely fast
- We have a strong culture based on core values and standard operating procedures, you may need to unlearn a few things from previous experience

What kind of skills and experience do I need to have? (Ideally most but not all)

- Javascript/Typescript experience is preferred.
- React Native experience is preferred.
- Node, Serverless & AWS experience a bonus.
- MongoDB & DynamoDB experience is a bonus.
- Native mobile experience is a bonus

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