Web Team Lead

Dovetail is the world’s leading customer insights hub, helping thousands of teams build better products. From user feedback and customer interviews to support tickets and sales calls, Dovetail helps you uncover insights fast—no matter the method. Driven by ambition and innovation, the Dovetail team is customer-obsessed and on a mission to help the world improve the quality of every thing. Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Porsche, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first with Dovetail and improve the quality of their thing.

Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco. We've created a unique environment to help us achieve our challenging mission. A culture that aspires to excellence, where nothing is too small to be improved.

Dovetail is growing, and we’re seeking a strong web engineer to lead our Web team. The web team works across the organization to ensure our website is as high quality as possible and captures all aspects of our product, brand and culture.

**What you'll do**:
As an engineer focused on enabling our metrics-focused and data-driven organization, you will:

- **Lead our web team.** Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring tasks are completed on schedule. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and improve team performance. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to front-end development, SEO, accessibility, and performance optimization. Work with your team on their growth and development, including 1:1s, and work with your Engineering Manager on performance.
- **Write quality code.** Develop and maintain a marketing website using Contentful, React18 and Gatsby, ensuring high-quality code, functionality, and performance. Troubleshoot and resolve front-end issues and bugs, ensuring a smooth user experience across different devices and browsers. Implement SEO best practices, including structured data markup, meta tags, and optimized page load times.
- **Partner with a designer.** Collaborate with the marketing, sales, customer success and product teams to ensure the web team prioritizes work effectively, capturing all requirements and translating those requirements into technical specifications.

**Your background**:

- **You are** **pragmatic and flexible.** You’re used to doing what’s necessary to get the job done. You’ll need to be comfortable with ambiguity, be resourceful to solve problems and be able to adjust to shifting deadlines and project goals.
- **Excellent, concise communicator.** You can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings with your team and have the ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs.
- **You have solid web experience.** Ideally, you’ll have working proficiency in Gatsby and TypeScript and some experience across our tech stack with:

- Proven experience as a front-end developer, preferably with React, Contentful and Gatsby.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related front-end technologies.
- Familiarity with SEO best practices and experience optimizing websites for search engines.
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience implementing accessibility features.
- Proficiency in performance optimization techniques to ensure fast-loading and responsive websites.
- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.

**Benefits**:

- **Equity for everyone.** We put our money where our mouth is. No matter your role, we provide equity for all along with competitive salaries. See your investment grow as Dovetail grows.
- **Equal parental leave.** We offer an inclusive framework of 20 weeks equal paid leave to support new parents. Every family is unique, so you make the call how you’d like to take care of what matters most.
- **Modern and pet friendly offices.** Bring your pooch to our modern, ergonomic offices in the heart of Surry Hills. We also host monthly events for the whole team to connect and unwind.
- **Flexible work-life balance.** Whether you're a parent, student, or juggling a million things, we get it. While we're an office-first culture, we work together to make your schedule work for you.
- **Develop and grow.** Take a course, attend a lunch and learn, or head to a conference to help you grow We love to support you any way we can, so expect Dovetail to be your #1 fan when it comes to achieving your career goals.
- **Extra paid days off.** Enjoy ad-hoc KitKat days to take a step back and spend it however you like. Hit the beach, spend time with your family, pick up that hobby you’ve been meaning to try, or anything in between
- **Health is wealth.** We believe that everyone has the right to mental wellness and support. So every Dovetailer has access to Uprise (Employee Assistance Program) for themselves as well as their families.
- **Floating public holidays.** Publi