Technical Lead - Development

Posted 17 September 2020
SalaryNZ$140000.00 - NZ$180000.00 per annum
LocationAuckland
Job type Permanent
ReferenceJN -082020-71283_1600298895

Job description

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

This well known and highly successful Digital Agency work with awesome clients from startups through to SMEs, large enterprises and government agencies. They have a fun, startup feel, work hard and play hard, and always celebrate success. This is a business that truly values its people.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role is a mix of leadership and hands-on coding. You will be leading a team of passionate and talented developers working with high profile clients. A key part of this role will be communicating with clients and senior stakeholders up to C Suite level, ensuring everyone is on the same page and working together effectively.

From a coding perspective, you'll mainly focus on back-end development but will have full-stack development capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Hands-on coding, predominantly focusing on back-end development
  • Supporting goal setting, development and performance conversations through 1:1 catch-ups with your team
  • Supporting engagement and culture activities
  • Recruitment, onboarding and offboarding
  • Communicating and ensuring understanding of organisational, and tribe goals and strategies
  • Evaluating individual performance and delivering performance reviews
  • Supporting the wellbeing of your team by building a safe, supportive and inclusive environment
  • Raising and resolving impediments and blockers to performance and wellbeing if your team

ABOUT YOU:

We are seeking someone who ideally has 10+ years of relevant development experience, along with experience leading and/or managing technical teams. You will be a natural leader, able to garner respect from your reports and more junior colleagues as well as technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This role will involve a mix of leadership and hands-on coding, and from a technical perspective you will need skills/experience with the following:

  • .NET Core
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Some software architecture experience
  • Capable with one or more frameworks: React, React Native, Angular, Vue.js, or similar

In addition, to be successful in this role you will bring:

  • Your first-class organisational skills
  • Excellent problem-solving capabilities and the ability to think outside the box with regards to technical problems
  • Communication and interpersonal skills that are second to none
  • Commercial acumen that allows you to form balanced views between technical outcomes, client outcomes and financial impacts in cost and ROI

WHAT'S NEXT?

Apply online or contact Claire Lowe for more details on or 021 206 5083