Technology Lead

**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.

**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.

**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, Rabbit