Senior Techlead (Go/PHP/Java)

Our partner is a SaaS workforce management company designed to simplify employee scheduling, time and attendance tracking, and task management for businesses.The company has helped employers across all industries in 70+ countries optimize their workforce and improve operational efficiency.

Our BOT model provides a long-term solution for successfully delivering your product roadmap without outsourcing your software development. In just a few weeks, we can set up dedicated software development teams in Vietnam which will be steadily integrated in your organization and can eventually be fully transferred.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels.

Enabling your team as an inspiring Technical Manager, co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and product managers/product designer.

• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues

• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed

• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team

• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals

• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required, running agile ceremonies, helping people with self-organising skills, facilitating workshops

Drive high performance:

• Bias towards value creation: guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company. Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs. Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions.
• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team.
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community

Technical Leadership

• Become intimately familiar with our product, systems, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions

• Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of work

• Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions

• Experience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migration

• Developing subject matter technical expert in the domain you own

• Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads

• Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals

• Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.

• 2+ years of engineering management experience building highly performing, self-managing autonomous teams

• Bias to action and effecting organisational change

• Influential with engineering leadership and the engineer community

• Ability to handle competing priorities

• Growth mindset. We are an early stage company that hasn't figured it all out yet!

• Humbitious. We are ambitious to aim to make a significant global impact, and build a generational company, while humble enough to know it'll take lots of hard work, learning from mistakes, and great people

• High agency mindset. High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. High Agency people either find a way in the face of adverse conditions or navigate to reverse the adverse conditions to achieve goals.

• Passion for technology. A nerd at heart, you know the massive leverage and exponential ability innovative technical solutions can have in making an impact in the world.

Techie in you:

• Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services.

• Mastery of Golang, Java or PHP would be highly advantageous
• Ability to identify the technical problems to be solved within the context of their respective team/project/squad
• Breaks down problems to impactful milestones and drive the execution, collaborating and aligning with their peers
• Can perform advanced debugging and profiling (performance optimization), both within the domain and across services
• SME for a discipline/domain. Broad holistic understanding of the overall architecture and underlying systems
• Able to apply critical thinking that satisfies the business needs when proposing technical solutions
• Proficient in database development, web development, windows development, source code control, configuration management and deployment
• Experiencein Agile development environments
• Good verbal English communication skills, especially in the global software development environment