Technical Lead

Technical Lead, Brisbane

A Technical Lead at Repeat defines how we build our product and solve hard problems. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to solve common goals.They will work across the backend (NodeJs), and frontend (React.js, Typescript) parts of our application.

Unless otherwise specified, all Tech Lead roles at Repeat share the following requirements and responsibilities:

Requirements

• Professional experience with React or another modern JavaScript web framework (Vue, Angular, Ember, etc)
• Professional experience working with TypeScript , NodeJS, SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL), MongoDB and Kafka
• Strong grasp of event driven architecture and event modelling
• Proficiency using Git in a professional/workplace environment
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to achieve consensus with peers and provide clear status updates, and an inclination towards inclusion
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Must be based in Brisbane 

Nice to have:

• Experience with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman.
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the competitive video games such as Fortnite, Dota 2, League of Legends, Rocket League etc
• Product or Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or multicultural team
• Experience contributing to open-source software

Responsibilities

• Designs and documents solutions to complex problems that meet product requirements and technical roadmaps.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to reuse or generalise existing services and product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration.
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams in Repeat.
• Play a central role in technical, business, and organizational contributions affecting Repeat.
• Plan improvements and features with a 6 month view.
• Solves technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for Repeat.
• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Guides conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams.
• Provides a point of escalation for Repeat teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Attain a measurable impact on the work of Repeat teams.
• Knowledgeable in all specialities practiced within the Repeat business unit
• Participate in an on-call roster to ensure 24/7 availability for emergency situations, including prompt response and resolution of critical incidents outside of normal business hours.