In this role you will take charge of designing and developing innovative technical solutions within a collaborative team environment. You will ensure that each solution not only meets customer and business requirements but also adheres to the highest technical standards. Our ideal candidate will be a passionate coach and mentor, inspiring their team while championing agile software delivery practices like continuous delivery and test automation.
- Partner with stakeholders to support solution discovery
- Identify gaps in technical capability, and work with architects and others to resolve these
- Align technical solutions to customer and business needs
- Advocate and support Agile ways of working
- Promote and support best practices
- Remove impediments and distractions to optimise team performance
- Building Product Capabilities: You’ll be working on developing product features to increase user adoption, which is critical to the success of the platform
- Collaborate with team members to identify and fix technical problems
- Analyse customer and business needs and design and develop solutions that meet them
- Manage technical debt and ensure that solutions remain updated and supported
- Conduct security audits and identify areas of improvement
- Guide a team through technical issues and challenges
- Continuously learn and develop yourself and others helping to meet team technical goals
- Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values
- Design and develop efficient, testable, and maintainable solutions
- Ensure solutions meet customer and business needs
- Continuously manage and reduce technical debt
- Support and advocate secure coding practices
- Support and advocate engineering best practice
- Advocate and adopt modern architectural solutions where appropriate, such as microservices, event driven architecture, and serverless
- Support the uptime and availability of solutions in production
- 7+ years professional experience in a senior software engineering role
- A Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated equivalent experience
- Demonstrated understanding of Agile principles and processes
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices
- Commercially minded with the ability to hit the ground running, and to build and maintain constructive working relationships at all levels
- Excellent adaptive team leadership capabilities including the ability to foster productive team dynamics, engage and enable teams and coach for performance
- Strong Technical Expertise: The right candidate should have strong cloud development experience with Serverless and/or containers. They need to have successfully delivered projects in this space, ideally using modern web development frameworks like React (or similar JSX component-based libraries).
- Experience in Relevant Domains: They should be familiar with eCommerce, checkout, and order fulfillment processes. Experience with observability platforms and data-driven development practices will also be important.
- Leadership & Mentorship: The individual must be a good mentor, able to guide team members, collaborate with Agile Delivery Leads (ADL), Business Analysts (BA), and UX teams, and work closely with architects to ensure best practices are followed
- High level of integrity and professional accountability
- Ability to embrace change in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive in identifying risks and opportunities
- Ability to manage multiple issues at once and strong prioritisation skills
- Experience within travel or other internet-scale environments (Desired)
- Strong understanding of the travel or retail industry (Desired)
What you will enjoy:
🙋🏾♀️Culture: you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd
🎉Development: Individualised, ongoing Learning & Development via communities of practice. Dedicated time to learn, share and collaborate skills, interests and goals, as well as contribute your own expertise and insights of others.
🎉Growth in Technical Leadership: The candidate has a career path toward higher technical leadership roles such as architecture or Head of Engineering (HoE) roles.
🧑💻Personal and Team Growth: The company promotes growth through communities of practice and by continuously improving development practices and standards, allowing the new tech lead to evolve both individually and as a part of the team.
⭐Innovation Days where you have the opportunity to create, collaborate, and bring innovative concepts to life!
🧑💻Dedicated Engineering Days, often hosted by technology partners off-site, where staff have an opportunity to increase knowledge and skills, and test out new and exciting technologies.
🔧Access to learning tools such as Udemy for ongoing technical skills development
♀️Women in PM&E group - this comprehensive program aims to foster gender diversity and empower and support women in their pursuit of successful careers in technology. It encompasses a variety of initiatives, workshops, mentorship opportunities, and networking events.
🏆Exclusive Staff Discounts: Accessible via our employee-only portal with 350+ of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more
🌏Travel Discounts: Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more
💎Brightness of Future: Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within
🥦Corporate Health Discounts: Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym
🌞Mental Health: Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family
🎉Social: Regular awards nights, social team-building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Los Angeles in 2025)
🙏🏼 Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising; paid parental and volunteer leave
💚Sustainability: The protection of our environment is essential to the future of tourism, as a leading travel group, we have made efforts to affect positive change to the environment
Irreverence. Ownership. Egalitarianism.
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