Tech Lead

At Bunnings, you'll make a positive difference to our business and beyond.

Bunnings is the leading retailer of home improvement and lifestyle products in Australia and New Zealand and a major supplier to project builders, commercial tradespeople and the housing industry. Operating from a network of stores, trade centres, frame and truss sites, and online, Bunnings caters for consumer and commercial customers.

By joining our passionate and diverse team, you will have the opportunity to grow, develop, have fun and make a positive difference - to our customers and the communities where we live and work.
- We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to join our growing Digital team

About the role:
With the continued growth in digital channels Bunnings is expanding the software engineering team to further bolster what is a stellar team. As a Tech Lead you will be responsible for architecting & overseeing implementation of our platform across all parts of the stack for our digital channels within a cross functional team.

You will be a key conduit between Product Managers, Designers, Delivery Leads and your Development Team to lead the problem solving and design of a solution. You will be a leader of agile software engineering practices such as test-driven development, continuous delivery and pair programming. You will form a part of a cross-functional team and expected to make a significant contribution to the success of the team's objectives and culture. You will use have strong people management as this role will have 3 - 5 direct report responsibilities.

As a Tech Lead, you can expect to:
- Assist in development and drive of the digital platform's technology strategy-
- Directly manage and coach software engineers-
- Participate in overseeing a maintainable, high quality, secure and performant codebase-
- Implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, designers and engineers.-
- Work in an agile team, where iterative experimentation and data driven decisions with product and UX is valued-
- Effectively communicate your technical solutions and product ideas with the team-
- Mentor other engineering team members-
- Help develop platform technical strategy, drive alignment through a large team, help triage and make decisions from multiple streams of technical work.-
- Actively manage and reduce of platform technical debt, continually ratcheting quality-
- Develop a cross functional mindset in team members as squads work on multiple platforms and languages- To be successful in this role, you will be a detail oriented, outcome driven problem solver who is well versed with working within agile environments. As a passionate technologist you are all about knowledge sharing and upskilling and have excellent collaboration and communication skills. Further requirements include:
8+ years of software engineering experience that include backend experience-
- Proven experience leading a team of software engineers-
- Experience designing and developing API'S-
- Strong foundations in Web Standards and solid experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and at least one typed language (C# or Java)-
- Strong knowledge of Software Design Patterns and Principles-
- Experience with microservices design-
- DevOps experience with knowledge on how to setup, configure, and maintain a high throughput SDLC-
- Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices such as agile software development, continuous deployment, behaviour driven development, code review, design documentation, infrastructure as code.-
- Good knowledge of containerization technologies and adoption thereof-
- Experience with designing cloud native platformsYou'll be part of a workplace where you'll feel like you belong.

There's so much on offer when you're part of the team. Our flexible and informal work environment helps bring balance between work and home. Then there's the fun stuff like team discount at Bunnings and other Wesfarmers brands, incentives, discounts from corporate partners (such as private health insurance) and cost price food and drinks at the Bunnings café. We also offer 12 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of gender, and you will have the opportunity to create a real difference in your community and environment. Join us and experience Bunnings from the other side of the counter.
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