Technology Lead

**Portable is growing and we are looking for a passionate and motivated leader to join our awesome team**:
**Who are we and why work with us?**:
Here at Portable we care about the world. We seek out areas of social need and policy failure and use our expertise in research, design and technology to make a positive impact for our community. Our clients are as passionate as we are and work in government agencies and nonprofit organisations. Our job is to help them define, design and deliver new products, services and ways of working to improve life for all Australians.

There are currently 70+ of us working as researchers, strategists, designers, developers and producers towards our mission from our offices in Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide and working remotely from home.

**Some of the benefits of working with us**:
We care about the experience and wellbeing of our team. Here are some of the benefits our team enjoys:

- We support a flexible working environment whether its from home or the office or a cafe
- We're a family-friendly company who offer parental leave and part-time arrangements to allow for things like pick-ups and drop-offs or sick children
- A feedback-friendly culture, where we make space for open and respectful sharing of feedback that helps us grow
- Bonus leave, which kicks off at year one, and accumulates to an additional 3 weeks of leave after working consistently for four years
- We support our team taking mental health days as personal leave that they don't need to explain or have a medical certificate for
- Employee Assistance Program with The Mindroom for general wellbeing check-ins, assistance with career planning, or working through difficult or challenging circumstances
- Twice-yearly salary reviews with no minimum service period
- Our team can grow their career with our structured career pathways, generous professional development allowance and hands-on learning opportunities
- Ongoing leadership coaching and development for leaders in the business
- Indigenous cultural awareness training for our entire team
- We work on meaningful projects that seek to have a positive impact in the world

We're looking for a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager to join our team and contribute to our projects and technology discipline. You have probably spent 5+ years programming in organisations to develop your technical skills on large projects that have involved a varying degree of technical leadership and involvement. You have also probably enjoyed mentoring, guiding and seeing people grow on the projects you have been leading and are already perhaps leading a technical team of 4-5 people.

**This might be the right role for you if**:
You have a passion for people and helping teams and individuals grow. You enjoy leading and developing a small group of people to help them achieve their professional outcomes and to guide them on shaping their career path.

You're able to work effectively with a technical leadership team and a broader business leadership team to help drive and balance larger strategic business and discipline objectives with shorter team goals and outcomes.

You have a deep understanding of programming concepts and methodologies that allow you to provide guidance and support to team members as they express their interests and invest in their own development.

You enjoy working with multidisciplinary teams of designers, developers and producers on a wide range of projects. You actively participate in retros, planning sessions and are involved in driving other project and company rituals.

You also demonstrate excellent teamwork and communication and are proactive in identifying gaps in your capability. You are able to manage your time and priorities, as well as communicate clearly in written and verbal communications.

**As an agency we have a number of projects running in different technical stacks**:
For this role,.NET and/or Java experience will be considered favourably, but we also work in PHP and Javascript (actually Typescript, but we will help you learn if you need). We love to learn (and teach) new skills.

**As a Lead, you'll be expected to deliver the following outcomes**:

- You and the people you lead are engaged and growing and delivering high quality work on time and on budget
- Guidance, shaping and intervention where required on the delivery of high quality development work that clearly demonstrates meeting the needs of users and our clients
- Develop, enhance, optimise and share best practice methods and tools that evolve our tech practice for clients and research participants
- Yourself and the people you lead are engaged in contributing to Portable as a business, including co-defining and executing on our strategic objectives and aligning them with the goals and daily operations of your team

**An example of what a week at Portable as a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager might look like**:

- Spending time writing code - helping the team with a particularly tricky refact