Lead Software Engineer (Front-end)

About hipages:

We are a proudly Australian ASX-listed tech company and our platform is the number one way for homeowners and tradies to connect for all things home improvement. Inspired and driven by our purpose of transforming the trade industry, building better lives for everyone, we are powered by a 350-strong team across Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and Vietnam.

We have created one of the best places to work in technology in Australia, certified as a Great Place to Work and winning multitudes of awards for our innovative approaches to team engagement and wellbeing. A leader in Diversity, Equality and Belonging we have been endorsed by Work180 for our commitment to advancing women’s careers and are proud of our diversity of cultures, age span and sexual orientation/identification. We offer meaningful, impactful work collaborating and innovating with the best and brightest in a transparent, supportive and fast-paced work environment.

About the role:

As the Lead Software Engineer, you’ll provide leadership and direction on our front-end architecture to our cross-functional teams, with a focus on the Growth team to devise innovative solutions to customer problems on web and app applications. You will be part of the Architecture Council that defines and leads the direction of the future of the hipages front-end architecture as we continue to scale.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our employee share program
• Work from home with 50/50 hybrid working model
• Cross functional collaboration with autonomous work driven by your own innovation
• Leverage hands-on learning, coaching opportunities and workshops for continuous upskilling
• Inhouse talent development team to support your personal career growth and plan for your promotion!

How you will add value:

• Raising the bar of what-good-looks-like within hipages Engineering
• Design and lead the development of the front-end architecture, and delivery of quality, maintainable software applications
• Involvement in data-driven product experimentation
• Writing clean, scalable, testable code to support and enable the growth of the company
• Participation in discussions of system architecture
• Coaching and mentoring the engineering teams

About you:

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Relevant software engineering experience within a product led organisation or startup environment
• Experience in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining React applications
• Experience scaling front end patterns across a multi team environment
• Experience working in an agile team (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience writing automated tests
• Good understanding of modern CICD practices
• Experience working with modern design practices eg: Atomic Design Principles, Design Systems, etc
• Working in a Cloud environment (bonus if it is AWS)

Take a look inside our home:

Offering an inspirational ‘home away from home’ and hybrid (50/50) work environment, our commitment to being a Great Place to Work means you will feel comfortable being your authentic self and get to do your best work everyday. Our medium company size means you get the best technology and tools to work with AND get to directly contribute to our product, service and/or customers. Our investment into continuous career development for everyone and a coach-style of leadership means a huge 85% of our team report they consider their direct leader ‘a great leader’ with 86% of the team saying hipages is a Great Place to Work!

Sounds good? Wait, there’s more! We also provide:

• A close-knit diverse family of bright, respectful, collaborative team members who love to solve problems and jump on new opportunities;
• Agile, cross-functional teams who value teamwork - from Hackathon to team off-sites, to product roadshows, you get to experience it all;
• Competitive salary and benefits (including additional paid leave for birthdays, volunteering, service anniversaries and parental leave), plus our Employee Share Ownership Program means we’re all owners of hipages;
• Daily continental breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks;
• Inspiring home-away-from-home office and location - based in the heart of Sydney CBD, only a few steps from Town Hall Station, with multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration and social areas;
• Remote work and flexible work (50/50) hybrid model - the best of both worlds!;
• High-touch personalised investment in your continuous career development;
• Social connection focus: Friday socials, 2x big company parties per year and regular and fun teaming activities -we work hard but play hard too!

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