Technical Lead

Technical Lead
**Let's build something special.**

As a part of the Reece Group, Trout Creative Thinking is redefining the client-agency model and works with the Reece Group and externally in an innovative outside in model.

As a Technical Lead at Trout Creative Thinking you will help shape and drive our digital capability by fusing breakthrough human-centred creative with cutting-edge technology to deliver customer-led experiences.

Our studio is built on three core principles: curiosity, care and brilliance.

You're curious about the world around you. You innately explore shifting cultures, emerging technologies and new ways of doing things. You care, genuinely. You are committed to ensuring that your craft, your interactions with others and your contributions to our team are the best they can be. You help a teammate out and contribute to the little things that make our studio culture a joy to be a part of. You strive to achieve brilliance, every day. You push yourself to learn new skills and deepen your understanding of a problem. You encourage others to be brilliant by evolving ideas collaboratively. You think ambitiously, execute beautifully and you do what it takes to make success happen.

Ideally the position will be based out of Melbourne, however we are open to remote working if you are based in other locations in Australia or NZ.

**What You'll Be Up To**
- Lead a small team, and design best in class, modern, commercially appropriate technical solutions for Reece Group and client projects.
- Work harmoniously with our UX Strategy, Digital Design and Project Leads to deliver best in class experiences.
- Ensure technical best practices to allow high performance, quality, security, reliability, and maintainability, minimising downtime.
- Roll up your sleeves and get on the tools where necessary such as technical PoCs, complex tickets, support the team etc
- Help manage projects successfully through all phases from discovery to delivery.
- Help manage internal and external stakeholders, as well as vendors to ensure project delivery on time & on budget.
- Help drive innovation, outside-in thinking and creativity.
- Experimenting with emerging technologies and innovations in digital, ready to adopt at the right time.

**What You've Got**
- You are comfortable with stakeholder management and working in a fast-paced team environment. In fact, you thrive on being a client-facing leader, steering the success of projects.
- You will see digital experiences as critical, constantly iterated upon tools that solve business and customer problems, while delivering on point brand experience.
- You let customer experience lead the tech, not the other way around.
- You're passionate about modern technology, including micro-services based, API-first, cloud-native SaaS & headless architecture aka MACH and Jamstack solutions.
- Extensive experience in web development and providing technical project leadership
- Love collaborating in a team and creating great relationships
- You have a growth and learning mindset - you are actively curious, seeking out and exploring new concepts, new technologies, and ways of working, you help others to develop a growth learning mindset themselves
- You have a passion for solving complex problems and creating unique solutions
- Challenge established ways of doing business while influencing desired outcomes, prioritize competing business priorities, and meeting company vision and strategy

**Technically speaking**
- Experience leading MACH / Jamstack solutions
- Strong experience with JavaScript, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Tailwind HTML5, CSS3
- API, web services, REST and GraphQL
- Performance optimisation and SEO best practice
- Experience with Netlify, Vercel, AWS Cloudfront, Lambda or similar
- Familiarity with DevOps practices
- Storybook and working with design systems

**How can you build a career with Reece.**:
Reece is different. We're a successful company that doesn't like to make a fuss of our success. We're a big business that works hard to retain the great things from when we were a small business.

We value common sense as highly as a university degree. We encourage people to have a go and don't mind if they fail. We promote people based on performance, not age.

Reece is a place where people make a real difference. And that's the secret to our success - having the right people, with the right attitude in the right roles.

We're looking for the right people now. People who like people. People who like to talk but also like to listen. People who like to perform. People who can recognise an opportunity and seize it. People who are prepared to promote themselves.

Read on. You will quickly discover whether you might be the right person, and whether we might be the right place for your career.
- If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us_