Software Engineer Team Lead
Published on August 13, 2023
ShiftCare’s innovative software platform helps Australia’s disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals, streamline the way they do things 🧑🏽⚕️📲 ✅ By creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, we enable businesses to grow, while creating more time for what matters most – supporting clients, and helping them lead healthier, happier lives. We’re a small but rapidly growing start-up that strikes the balance between work and play 🧑💻 ➡️ 🏄♂️ Based at Fishburners, one of Sydney’s leading tech co-working spaces, our diverse team embraces a culture of dedication and enthusiasm. Whether you choose to work on-site with us, where you’ll rub shoulders with other start-ups, enjoy perks like complimentary coffee, beer and the occasional pizza, or remotely, at hours that suit you, you’ll soon feel like part of a team making a difference.
About ShiftCare
ShiftCare’s innovative software is a market leader which helps Australian & American disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals, streamline the way they work by creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, enabling businesses to grow.
About The Team You’ll Be Joining
The ShiftCare Engineering team is on a mission to make ShiftCare accessible to more businesses across Australia & the United States, but this is just the beginning of our journey. Doubling in revenue every year, we are having a fun time scaling our systems and processes appropriately.
You will help us in ensuring our main feature development team delivers software designed, built and maintained to the highest standards to enable our growth.
We treat software development as a craft and are passionate about reliability, our customers, and doing more with less.
Reporting to ShiftCare’s CTO, you’ll manage remotely the engineers in the main feature development team and the ones to be hired, and be responsible for the team's health and outcomes.
You’ll partner with the Product Managers and other leaders across ShiftCare Engineering to craft our roadmap, processes, and goals.
What You'll Do In The Role
- Lead the main engineering team to develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
- Promote good engineering practices within the team and beyond.
- Identify and implement improvements to our products and processes to support our growth.
- Work on the team’s health on its path to becoming a high-performing team, and each team member’s personal development.
- Coordinate the delivery of features from the roadmap through each stage of the development cycle.
- Lead by example in terms of excellence, attention to detail, evaluating priorities and risks, designing scalable solutions, etc.
Requirements
About You
- You have ample experience designing and shipping scalable, reliable and maintainable systems that operated at large scale. Ideally in a similar stack as ours: Ruby on Rails, React/Vue, AWS.
- You have a few years of experience being responsible for a team (or teams), their outcomes, and their personal development, and have learnt some lessons along the way.
- You are passionate about learning, continuous improvement, and excellence in software engineering as a craft, and love nurturing a culture that embraces those values.
- You thrive when given autonomy and responsibility to identify problems, drive solutions and bring the team along encouraging a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both supportive and challenging to promote growth.
Benefits
ShiftCare is progressive in its thinking of staff wellbeing & interest and as such we offer:
- Birthdays off: We understand that everyone deserves to celebrate their special day. That's why we offer a paid day off to all employees on their birthday
- "Early-mark Fridays": We understand the importance of taking time off to recharge and relax. Once a month, employees can choose to extend their weekend by leaving their desk earlier on a Friday - 1pm sound good?1?
- Regular team and company events: We value the power of team building and social connections. Regular events throughout the year bring our employees together, from quarterly team workshops & team building sessions to bi-annual company-wide celebrations.
- Floating public holidays: Not everyone celebrates the same holidays, and that's why we offer floating public holidays, take time off to celebrate preferred holidays, cultural traditions, or personal events.
- Remote work: Our remote work option demonstrates our commitment to supporting our employees' work-life balance and ensuring their success both in and out of the workplace
- Employee Discount Marketplace: This an excellent way to help our employees to save money, enjoy more of the things they love, and make their hard-earned money go further.
If you are excited about being part of a dynamic team that is making a significant social impact in this industry, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
***Please note this is an Australian based role and is only open to individuals with full Australian work rights.