Technical Lead - Melbourne
Woolworths Group (Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer) launched Woolworths Market Plus (WMP) in October 2023. WMP is a curated customer destination that brings together our trusted marketplace ecosystem, comprising three core banners: Big W Market, MyDeal, and Everyday Market.
WMP provides one door for our sellers to both sell and manage products across our marketplaces. We continue to grow, and operate primarily across three hub locations: Melbourne, Sydney & Manila.- A dynamic start-up culture within Woolworths Group
- Melbourne CBD based with hybrid and flexible ways of working
- Awesome opportunity to join a business on a huge growth trajectory
What you'll be doing?
As a Tech Lead for Woolworths MarketPlus, you will play a critical role in our new organisation's success by leading one of our engineering squads, contributing to strategic direction, and executing plans to achieve the group's goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work end to end, including product management, experience, and architecture, to ensure the seamless development and delivery of our marketplace platform.This role demands exceptional leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to foster a culture of creativity and innovation.
This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering for Woolworths MarketPlus. If you are a dynamic and forward-thinking engineering leader with a passion for innovation and a track record of delivering results, we encourage you to apply. Join us in shaping the future of our marketplace and making a significant impact in the industry.
Responsibilities:
- Lead software development of our group marketplace platform, driving its growth, scalability, and performance to meet customer and business needs, while maintaining hands-on coding backend and frontend.
- Manage and lead one or more engineering squads, collaborating with delivery and architecture to ensure high quality. Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and innovative team culture.
- Engage with stakeholders across banners, architecture, and group IT to ensure alignment with group technology standards.
- Take ownership of key roadmap priorities and support their implementation.
- Contribute to tech strategy, ensuring most effective and modern approaches.
- Help design new features and solutions expanding WMP suite and scalability.
- Solid development background in .NET stack including C#, ASP.NET Core, and RESTful APIs. Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, domain-driven development, dependency injection and general design patterns.
- Proven success in a leadership role within a technology-driven startup or corporate environment.
- Experience with modern frontend technology, particularly React.
- Good understanding of developing scalable cloud solutions across one or more major platforms. Key AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch) are advantageous.
- Strong experience in defining robust integration contracts and automating validation of these.
- Previously built and scaled microservice based and event driven architectures.
- Solid understanding of both NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB and MongoDB and relational databases.
- Work in a dynamic and inclusive start-up culture with passionate people that collectively possess over 100 years of eCommerce experience.
- Play an important role in an ASX listed company that is experiencing unprecedented growth.
- Industry competitive remuneration in a full-time permanent position.
- A modern Collins Street CBD office easily accessible by tram, bus and train
Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group
We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’
Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
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