Software Engineering Manager

**Description**:
**About the role**:
At CES, we have ambitious targets to keep billions of drink containers out of landfill and transform them into resources that can be used again and again.

Our Engineers are a vital part of CES and we have a rare new opportunity for a technically expert Engineering Manager with great people leadership skills to help us in our mission.

You will lead development teams (Development Leads and Software Developers) to keep expanding our bespoke industry solution for our container recycling scheme clients.

Our projects are primarily in Java and JavaScript with an increasingly event driven architecture deployed on Kubernetes on hyperscale cloud providers; you will help shape the roadmap and technologies for the next growth phase of our organisation.

You are a people leader and technical expert; you bring high quality solutions to complex problems and excellent influencing skills to discussions & negotiations with product and development teams & other stakeholders.

You firmly believe in well architected principles and have quality as a key motivator; you understand Test/Behavior Driven Development at a deep level.

**Key deliverables include**:

- Lead, mentor and motivate your teams to achieve quality technical and business outcomes.
- Contribute to Technical and Architectural discussions, collaborating well and bringing positive energy to our culture.
- Design and consult with your peer Engineering Managers, Architecture and DevSecOps teams on technical deliveries.
- Drive great engineering principles and practices, security, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee Incident Management and after-hours support for your areas.

**What's going to keep you entertained**:

- Ensuring alignment across all teams and projects across multiple squads
- Scaling and improving performance of services using Event Driven Solutions such as Kafka and Microservices
- Improving flexibility in our technology to support new business models and client structures
- Streamlining new client on-boarding processes to enable rapid growth
- Building a high quality, highly engaged development culture
- Finding and securing great development talent

**Skills and Experiences**:
**About you**:
You have extensive experience building high quality software, including Test and Behaviour Driven Development, UI/UX, DevSecOps principles and CI/CD.

You have a good understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product roadmapping and delivery, and you bring:

- 3+ years' experience managing software engineers - you have a coaching style and you can develop and inspire a team, as well as lead other leaders
- A solid background in Java, Event Driven Architectures (like Kafka) and API based microservices
- Strong experience working in containerised environments like Kubernetes
- Experience with Front end development frameworks (React, NextJS, Angular, NodeJS/NestJS)
- Strong skills in agile methodologies to give your teams the structure to deliver results
- An exceptional ability to engage and communicate with a range of stakeholders

**Bonus points if you also have**:

- Experience in headless CMS such as Strapi, Contentful
- Experience in B2C and B2B Identity such as Okta/Auth0, Oracle IDCS

Why work with us?
- We are an IT-led organisation with a high performing team working for purpose - what we do positively impacts communities and the environment.
- We offer flexible working arrangements to help you fit work around your life.
- We are the right size for you to work with an experienced engineering team but still have a big impact
- We are growing, so there are lots of development and learning opportunities.

About CES

We believe there is a better way to recycle that positively impacts individuals, communities, and the environment. We provide services and technology to enable the circular lifecycle of a drink container. Our services include IT technology, payments, brand experience and customer support.

Container Exchange Services (CES) is a joint venture between Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Lion that was established to provide scalable and sustainable solutions for Container Deposit Schemes (CDS) in Australia and around the World.

As an organisation, we are in our fifth successful year of operation having grown rapidly in revenue and people.

For further information on CES please visit us on LinkedIn CES (Container Exchange Services): Container Exchange Services.

No agencies please