Tech Lead

Job Title: Tech Lead

Location: Remote (Australia)

Salary: $215,000-$240,000 per year

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Second-generation ownership: the founder's daughter runs the agency now. Founded in 1993, we now have 42 employees. We close at 3 p.m. on Fridays in the summer.

About the role:

Tanner Mutual is hiring for the Tech Lead role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. You can work from home anywhere in Australia. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Duties:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review

You'll need:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Why work with us:

• Superannuation on top of salary
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible hours
• Above-award pay rates
• Annual bonus

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tanner Mutual.