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Technical Team Lead - ELMO Software
Software Engineer
We're looking for a Software Engineer focused on designing and building scalable technical solutions. This lead role requires 7+ years of relevant experience.
About the role
- Hybrid work set up
- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, as well as connecting people leave (up to 2 weeks working from anywhere)
- Inhouse Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)
- We would love to hear from you if you bring a proven track record of team leadership and growth, with a demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and lead engineering teams through feedback and development conversations in evolving environments. You should possess strong skills in technical planning, work breakdown, prioritization, accountability, and delivery monitoring, alongside expertise in navigating cross-functional environments and managing risks across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- From a full-stack engineering perspective, you will bring deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, combined with strong React.js frontend capabilities. You must have a genuine willingness to stay close to the code by contributing to the codebase, reviewing pull requests, and setting the technical quality bar by example.
- A solid understanding of cloud-native architecture on AWS, specifically with Lambda, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3, and EKS is essential.
- Additionally, you should have robust experience with testing frameworks and CI/CD optimization using Jenkins and Docker, combined with sound judgment in applying AI engineering tools to ensure they align architecturally and maintain a high quality bar.
- Your data and analytics background should include a working proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB. You will also bring familiarity with OLAP and cloud data warehousing solutions like Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, allowing you to contribute effectively to integration designs feeding downstream analytics, reporting, or AI/RAG pipelines. Prior exposure to streaming or event-driven data patterns will be considered a distinct advantage.
- Resilient Leadership: A calm, proactive, and resilient approach to navigating ambiguity,
- managing competing priorities, and fostering psychological safety.
- Growth Mindset: A curious, continuous learner who actively adapts and improves.
- Collaborative Culture: A commitment to building trust, delivering constructive feedback, sharing knowledge, and celebrating team recognition