Technical Lead - Backend
Foodstuffs Landing Drive, Mangere, Auckland
Information Technology – IT Shared Services /
Permanent Full Time /
Hybrid
About Us
You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square, right? That’s us! We are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style – we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe)! Our Support Centre is 1,000 people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in supporting our network of 330+ stores across the North Island. We serve over 1.3 million customers every week in the most awesome little country in the world!
About the Role
As an Integration Technical Lead, working within the Customer Domain Services Team, you’ll be in a key position to define and design how we build state-of-the-art backend microservices. You will use the latest development tools, techniques, and paradigms as well as your mentoring skills to scale what we deliver in a group of Software Engineers.
Developing microservices that are easy to deploy, low on memory, start fast, scale well and rarely break, leading to an exceptional digital customer experience will be your key metrics of success.
Your key responsibilities will include:
· Driving necessary and sufficient engineering solutions in accordance with governance standards, with the objectives of stability, scalability, maintainability and inter-operability.
· Contributing to major initiatives and business concepts during ideation and elaboration by providing estimation figures as well as feedback to high-level designs and presenting alternative approaches when they lead to better outcomes.
· Aligning design decisions with our longer-term technical roadmap by identifying and implementing evolutionary steps that lead to sustainable and maintainable solutions all the way through final delivery.
· Establishing a culture of engineering excellence by implementing efficient, complete and responsive monitoring, status and health checking in all deployed microservices.
· Closing gaps between high-level designs and delivery by elaborating all the details required to start the implementation.
· Identifying technical project risks, impediments and major blockers as early as possible and focusing on their mitigation and resolution immediately together with all relevant stakeholders like Architects, DevOps, Customer Service, PM, PO, BA.
· Understanding business needs, creating service designs and developing services accompanied by automated tests.
· Performing design and code reviews frequently and provide technical leadership to the other backend developers working in the Squad.
· Writing technical documentation as part of technical concepts, as-built documentation, feature and defect backlog items.
· Participating in SCRUM activities like planning, review, stand-ups and backlog grooming.
· Closely collaborating with all project and product managers relying on deliverables from the engineering team in all aspects of time and cost, quality and functionality, along with the wider IT teams to ensure architectural, operational, delivery, and handover guidelines are adhered to throughout the analysis and delivery process.
· Performing application analysis, code modifications and functional testing to troubleshoot application production issues.
· Implementing engineering practices and guardrails for fellow integration developers and guide them to follow best practices.
· Providing technical leadership to a team of software engineers of various skill levels, mentoring and providing input to their performance reviews.
· Application support, including participation in the on-call roster.
About You:
You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about doing your job, constantly curious and always seeking to improve your knowledge along with extensive Software Engineering experience in complex projects. You will also have excellent communication skills as there are multiple touch points across the business along with exceptionally sound logic, systems thinking, and analytical skills that are second to none.
You will also have:
· A Bachelor’s degree in a Technology related subject along with role-related qualifications and certifications
· Experience integrating web and mobile applications into large-scale microservice-based enterprise environments.
· Extensive experience in defining integration patterns for Microservices, creating detailed design from High Level Design.
· Experience in technical team leadership, including direct reports and coaching and mentoring more junior developers.
· Extensive hands-on experience in Java Microservices, Springboot, and Node JS (Koa) is a must. Experience in other typescript languages would be an added advantage.
· RESTful APIs – JSON and XML
· Extensive experience in automation testing - unit, component, and integration using Cucumber and TestNG framework.
· Familiarity with BDD / TDD approaches
· Deep experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery practices and tools
· Code reviews and coding standards development
· Git (and Bitbucket/GitHub), Bamboo, Docker, Kubernetes
· Log Management/ Monitoring tools Grafana, Splunk, Kibana, Sumo Logic
· Agile experience, SCRUM in particular
What's in it for You?
In return, we offer a competitive salary package, including fully subsidised health insurance, flexible working arrangements, free parking, participation in the company superannuation fund, birthday leave, and long service leave! Additionally, we provide abundant learning and development opportunities to help propel your career forward.
Join our dynamic team and be part of shaping the future of Software Engineering excellence!
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
