Technical Lead

We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

**Who we are**:
Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.
We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.
Right now, we are on a very exciting journey. We are transforming into a SaaS organisation, and we’re looking for great people to be a part of this reinvention.

**Who you would be working with**:
We are currently seeking an experienced, passionate, and creative individual to join our Platform team.
This is a unique opportunity to join a team that is transforming our company's approach to Platform Engineering, reducing complexity with a strong focus on developer and customer enablement by embracing self service practices, and standardised development and deployment models.

**Who you are**: Squiz is for everyone. If you’re smart and good at what you do, come as you are.
We are looking for a lead engineer with 5+ years experience, who has previously spent time building AWS Architectures that are deployed utilising solid coding and testing practices, that lean into best practice CI/CD, Microservice Architecture and Container Technologies. Cloud Native tools are a big advantage.
- Excellent knowledge around infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code and current tooling to support the management and orchestration of AWS Architecture
- Excellent knowledge of AWS services including Lambda/Serverless, RDS, EC2, EKS, IAM, ELB, Cloudformation/CDK
- Excellent knowledge of DevOps principles and practices that support best practice CI/CD
- CI/CD design utilising GitLab or similar technology
- Excellent Kubernetes experience and knowledge( EKS preferred)
- Solid programming skills (Go preferred)
- Crossplane experience is an advantage but not essential
- Experience with CD tools such as ArgoCD/FluxCD
- Cloudflare or similar CDN technology
- Microservice architecture build and design experience
- Knowledge of programming languages such as TypeScript, NodeJS, Go, and PHP
- Conversant on Agile principles, have previously worked in a Scrum team to deliver within a two week sprint cycle
- Excellent team working and communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills

**What you would be doing**:

- Lead a team of engineers and provide technical guidance, mentorship through planning, initiative and epic/story refinement.
- Work across Squiz Product Engineering teams to guide and mentor cloud best practices, drive adoption of service oriented architecture.
- Work directly with Product Managers and Snr Mgmt to develop and estimate technical strategy and solutions for strategic initiatives
- Develop technical documentation, architecture diagrams and maintain documented standards and best practices.
- Liaise and collaborate with AWS Technical teams on new technologies, best practices and regular architecture reviews.
- Develop high-quality standards for CI/CD, container and artefact management, security and code quality compliance scanning, for the deployment of our products to SaaS environments
- Build and maintain backend APIs and Microservices that provide functionality to the Squiz Digital Experience Platform
- Provide a great developer experience to product teams, through both technology and relationship building
- Lead the team on discussions on roadmap, architecture, and strategy.
- Participate in agile ceremonies including standups, sprint refinements, planning, reviews, and showcases
- Contribute to the team’s (and your own) continuous growth and improvement by bringing new ideas to the table

Why work for Squiz?
You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.
We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.