Tech Lead - Surry Hills, Australia - Provider Choice

Description

We've got a growing and tight knit startup team that is building impactful health tech solutions by using smarts and heart to help people create and live the life they want.

T-shirt is helping people living with disability and long-term health needs overcome their challenges, achieve their goals, and improve the quality of their everyday lives.

With a distributed and growing Engineering team across Australia and New Zealand, the distance between where our team physically sits day-to-day does not diminish the epic culture that this team has organically built.

We're looking for someone to step into this blended role in Sydney HQ, where you will be equally responsible for empowering our team and engineering culture through inspirational people leadership; as well as leading by example and writing code yourself to deliver meaningful software solutions to our customers.

This role is the first Tech Lead role we are hiring to the team and as we continue to scale, we'll be adding more Tech Leads (both through external hiring and internal promotion).

As a Tech Lead, you will be reporting into the Head of Engineering and whilst we know every day will be different, there will be an equal weight (50/50) put on both aspects of the role in terms of people leadership and being hands on the tools.

• Play a key role in developing a fun, motivated and collaborative engineering culture at Tshirt where diversity, recognition and inclusion are championed.
• Be involved in the recruitment process and the hiring of engineers to the team at Tshirt
• Deliver one to one feedback for some of our engineers and actively engage in performance reviews for team members, utilising data and metrics to help measure engineering performance
• Provide tailored individual coaching plans to engineers and work with them to set and achieve goals
• Participate in building more mature processes in the team around onboarding, training and performance management.
• Practice Radical Candor and ensure everyone has the tools and support they need to bring their full selves to work and add valuable contributions day in and day out.
• Coach and mentor those around to help support your team's achievement of goals (personal and professional) while growing in their careers.
• Drive the continuous improvement of engineering processes and ways of working at Tshirt.

• Produce clean, scalable and testable code using React (NextJS), TypeScript and NodeJS to deliver on key business initiatives
• Take ownership and initiative, adding value to our overall technical environment and how we operate across Product, Design and Engineering.
• Be a key voice and contributor to the technical roadmap, design systems and architectural decisions.
• Lead large projects and effectively work with Senior stakeholders across the organisation to deliver high quality product
• Facilitate collaboration amongst software engineers, product managers and product designers to solve meaningful problems which are going to best serve our customers
• Assist engineers to improve the quality of their teams' test coverage Actively engage in open discussions, code reviews and pair programming Use systematic debugging to diagnose all issues located to a single service and drive monitoring philosophy across the team
• Approach all aspects of your engineering work through a security lens Play a key role in the Engineering team's timely delivery of high quality technical solutions

• You've got a big heart and you're passionate about making a difference You're a team player with a passion for people and technology
• You have a proven track record of leading engineering teams in a crossfunctional context which deliver quality software products for end users
• You are an inspirational and empathic people leader that gets a kick out of coaching and mentoring engineers to be the best they can be
• You have previously been involved in hiring engineers onto a team
• You have excellent stakeholder management skills and are able to communicate effectively with leadership as well as other technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• You've led efforts to improve diversity and inclusiveness in engineering teams; organising workshops and team events; and facilitating progressive discussion across other parts of the organisation
• You deliver feedback in an honest, clear, concise and constructive way to help individual engineers learn, improve and achieve personal, team and organisational goals
• You actively facilitate technical discussions between engineering team members, as well as other departments and key success partners
• You ensure tasks are prioritised correctly and you review projects