Engineering Manager - Sydney, Australia - Cover Genius

Cover Genius

Verified Company

Sydney, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

The Company

Our team and products have been recognised with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020.

Our diverse team across 10 countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular "CG Gives" which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

What the role looks like.

As a software engineering manager, you are responsible for leading a team of 3-5 engineers, developing key product features through all the phases of the software development cycle, working alongside other software engineers, product managers and key stakeholders.

You will be an integral part of a CoverGenius product team working on the Xpay. Xpay plays a crucial role in our global business expansion.

The tools you will be working with include but are not limited to PHP and Laravel and experience with a backend stack is desired.

You will be working with a variety of automation tools.

You will be influential in defining the future of software architecture as we continue to evolve.

But most importantly, you'll be joining an engineering team that prides itself on its high standards and quality products The Engineering Manager participates in all phases of the software development cycle, including analysis, design, development, debugging, testing, and deployments.

This is very much a hands-on role where you will be coding on a daily basis.

An idea of the type of profile we are looking for:

Experience leading technology engineering teams from both technical and people perspective
5 + years commercial experience with PHP web frameworks (preferably with Laravel)
Ability to mentor and train other developers in the team
Drive change to build, showcase and share technology best practices and evangelise engineering practice across the business
Good understanding of engineering principles, and what makes good quality software ( eg SOLID)
Experience working in an agile team (Scrum, Lean, Kanban or any other flavour )
Previous experience in testdriven development
Knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases is desirable but not essential
Experience in maintaining production workloads in a Linux environment
Knowledge of Docker and ideally Kubernetes

Why Cover Genius?
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team.

We're a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that.

What does that mean?

Flexible Work Environment we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical. Soon after the declaration of the COVID19 global pandemic the entire CG team was granted an extra 15 days of Wellness Leave to take throughout 2020.
Employee Stock Options we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a worldclass company.
Work with likeminded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
Social Initiatives pictures speak a thousand words

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat