Technology Lead

**About WooliesX**

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.

Our culture combines the support, care and freedom that comes with being part of the Woolworths Group. We are an agile team embracing diversity of thought and positive change. We thrive on pragmatism, mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. As a team we continually seek ways to support and learn from each other.

**The Position**

WooliesX is seeking a Tech Lead to join the Last Mile tribe. The Last Mile tribe primarily focuses on systems and platforms which enable faster and efficient delivery of orders to our customers.

Reporting to the Technology Chapter Lead, you will work in a team of 2-4 engineers to build services in the Last Mile platform that powers deliveries for Australia’s leading supermarket with significant growth. You’ll be working within a fast-paced team focused on solving technical, product and customer experience challenges. The successful applicant must have an innovative approach to solving problems and must demonstrate the passion and commitment to continually strive for excellence through a customer-facing lens.
- Strong experience in agile delivery and ability to balance rapid iteration speed with continually improving the overall stability, scalability, security and modularity of the product.
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to engage, influence and negotiate at all levels with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a diverse multidisciplinary team with a focus on service delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Experience in gradually rebuilding/redesigning existing products on top of entirely new cloud services and new architecture.
- Experience in end-to-end development of microservices and event-driven distributed systems entirely in the cloud. Azure experience is preferred.
- Full-stack experience building web products using C#.NET and the latest front-end technologies.
- Understanding code testability, experience in build pipelines and DevOps (CI/CD systems, infrastructure as code etc).

**Responsibilities**

In collaboration with Product Owners, BAs and Engineering Team develop high quality, scalable and performant solutions.

Lead on technical delivery of the squad, from designing solutions to deploying them and ensuring correct operation.
- 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 ensuring all squads are aligned.

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and for each other.

**We’d love to hear from You