Engineering Team Lead

Who is Plenti?

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 250 people based in Australia, Plenti is of a size where everyone can make a difference in their role and help us realise our very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia's best lender.

Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014, listed on the ASX since 2020 with annual revenue of over $250 million and a loan portfolio of over $2.5 billion.

About the role:

As an Engineering Team Lead at Plenti, you will be at the heart of our technical innovation. This is a pivotal "player-coach" role where you'll balance hands-on development with strategic leadership, guiding a talented engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. You will partner with product managers, collaborate with architects, and mentor your team members to foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and high performance. Your leadership will be crucial in driving our projects forward and enhancing our engineering tech stack.

What You'll Do:

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and empower a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Project & Delivery Management: Partner closely with Product Managers to assess upcoming work, break down high-level requirements into a well-defined, deliverable backlog, and guide the team's execution.

• Technical Guidance & Strategy: Provide hands-on technical guidance, driving the design and implementation of solutions within our event-driven, microservices architecture. Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Architects to ensure alignment with our long-term technical vision.

• Workflow & Prioritization: Manage the day-to-day workflow of the team, assigning tasks and making final decisions to ensure alignment with project goals and technical priorities.

• Quality & Standards: Uphold and enforce exceptional coding standards, best practices, and a test-driven development (TDD) mindset to maintain and enhance product quality.

• Operational Excellence: Own and manage the incident response process for your team, ensuring issues are delegated and resolved efficiently to minimize impact.

• Process Improvement: Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering processes and practices.

About you:

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with extensive hands-on expertise in .NET technologies (C#, .NET Core/.NET 6+).

• Proven Leadership: Demonstrated experience in leading an engineering team and/or managing complex technical projects from conception to delivery.

• Architectural Expertise: A strong understanding of event-driven architectures, microservices patterns, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.

• Passion for Quality: A deep commitment to software quality, with proven experience establishing and enforcing high coding standards, best practices, and a test-driven approach.

• Collaborative Mindset: You are a natural collaborator who thrives in multidisciplinary team environments and can work effectively across different functions.

• Exceptional Communication: You possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence, guide, and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Business Accumen: A business-oriented approach, with the ability to translate technical complexities into clear business value and outcomes.

• Strong Organisational Skills: Excellent time management and prioritization skills, with the insight to effectively manage your team's workload and focus.

What's life like at Plenti?

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It's a place where everyone can "make it happen" and share in the results and success. If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then join to help us reshape Australia's financial eco-system for the good.

In return, you will enjoy a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to take your career further. We offer flexible working and volunteer and study leave to develop your skills. We also have monthly social events, office snacks, company Townhalls and D&I initiatives and events to help you connect with your colleagues. 

Plenti is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities. When you apply, let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process so we can accommodate you.