LEAD ENGINEER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AT NEWGLOBE

About Company:

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

Job Description:

• Design, implement, and support new products and features, including overseeing the technical design and architecture of projects
• Grow and lead an software development team of 5-7 engineers
• Collaborate with project sponsors and product designers to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise value
• Analyse and improve the overall software architecture, with a focus on maintainability and scalability
• Mentor and develop members of the team, from daily interactions to broader professional development goals

Requirements:

• Comfort recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for highly-available, scalable, and reliable implementations; but also the experience to take on technical debt where appropriate
• Enterprise-level experience with continuous delivery practises and tools
• Advocacy of test-driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)
• Experience with pair-programming and other XP practises a plus
• Experience in a lean delivery environment and understand not only the mechanics, but also the underlying motivations
• NewGlobe uses primarily .NET (server-side), Vue.JS (web apps) and Kotlin (Android native), so experience in these toolchains is preferable; however, NewGlobe also values developers with diverse experience, so serious exposure to other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs) is a bonus
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
• Interest in open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus.

Qualifications and Skills:

• A BA / BSc Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 7+ years of enterprise software development experience
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Expertise in several of the following areas (and interested in learning about the rest):
  • Web services and API design, especially in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem
  • Android applications, especially “offline-first”
  • JavaScript Web Applications, especially Progressive Web Applications
  • Data engineering - data pipelines that cleanse, classify, and aggregate data sets
  • Highly scalable architectures (e.g. CQRS, Event Sourcing, queues, circuit breakers, etc.)
  • Monitoring in all its forms - error monitoring, synthetic monitoring, performance monitoring, user monitoring, etc.
  • Security and identity management - OAuth, penetration testing, software supply chain
  • Cloud and Hybrid deployment models
  • Databases and ORMs - esp. MS SQL Server/T-SQL (and EF, Dapper, etc.); but also other forms of persistence

Salary

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