Golang Job: Lead Software Engineer

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Company

Versent

Location

Brisbane - Australia

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Versent is an Australian-born technology company, focused on architecting, building & operating cloud native applications, data streams, platforms and services.
Our solutions are centred around AWS and best of breed technology. From a stand-still start in 2014, we've grown to over 500 Versentonians in just eight years across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Singapore and now Denver.
With a diversified offering in professional services, managed services and product, we are poised for significant growth in 2022.
With a diversified offering in professional services, managed services and product, we are poised for significant growth in 2022 and looking to fill a short-term contract for this role.
About the Work
This is an exciting position for a talented Lead Software Engineer with proven experience to join our Brisbane team. The Lead Software Engineer is the conduit between the customer and our own engineering team – they connect the dots between the commercial, technical, and business requirements. They are in charge of:
  • How the customer vision will be realised,
  • What the best technical solution is – balancing cost / effort & time
  • What the best delivery approach is and how we would organise ourselves
  • How we ensure we do, what we say we would and ultimately exceed our customer’s expectations.
The work is exciting, cutting edge and diverse, ranging from cloud strategy to application transformation and modernisation, to cloud operations and everything in between.
Our people are curious, love to think outside the box, are self-starters, challenge the status quo, strive to find new ways of working, are innovative and believe in the art of the impossible.
We offer you opportunities to work across a wide range of industries with some of Australia’s top companies. You'll be surrounded by people who are incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about AWS and you will get to operate and engineer systems at scale, and gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.
About you
Are you an experienced Lead Software Engineer looking to work in a dynamic company with like-minded technologists – who are valued for their domain expertise and experience.
Do you desire to have a real impact, create value and hone your own expertise in cloud native technologies?
Do your leadership capabilities include?
  • Creating and sustaining high performing teams, including, mentoring and supporting team members.
  • Embedding Agile practices, grounded in pragmatism and true continuous improvement.
  • Experience in successfully planning and delivering projects of varying complexity.
  • The ability to achieve project delivery with a focus on time, cost and quality.
Do your business capabilities include?
  • A natural ability to influence and present across business and technical teams - pulling together meaningful transformational outcomes.
  • The resilience required to deal with influences and blockers that come from dealing with large enterprises.
  • Experience in leading the development of solutions with a focus on business enablement and outcomes.
Do your technical capabilities include
  • Demonstrated technical expertise in the end-to-end design and implementation of Internet scale web and mobile applications using cloud native services
  • Demonstrated technical expertise of one or more of the following programming languages: Typescript/Javascript, Java, Python, GoLang, or .Net,
  • Experience with React, React Native, Typescripts, GraphQL,
  • Understanding of modern software engineering techniques: microservice and event driven architectures, test driven development and continuous delivery
  • Experience with AWS (AWS certification is highly desirable).
  • Understanding of DevOps. Being able to talk from real-life experience about automation, pipelines and the culture shift required.
  • An agile practitioner with the ability to work with modern collaboration tools (confluence, JIRA) and support new ways of working, thinking, and behaving
Do you have these attributes?
  • A team player, that can actively contribute to a positive, goal-orientated team culture who can both lead and follow; work with diversely different people and achieve quality outcome.
  • A self-starter, that is comfortable working with ambiguity, can work autonomously and confident in sharing ideas, challenging norms in a respectful and professional manner – because you are motivated by doing the best job possible.
  • Being customer centric & focused on creating meaningful value to ensure a positive experience and outcome for every customer (internal & external); willing to do what is needed to get the job done.
  • Excellent communication skills; being an active listener who is able to read people and to adjust your behaviour and message accordingly?
Our Culture
No cool cliques, just motivated passionate humans generating ideas and devising solutions in a creative, collaborative workspace. We're building a team and looking for people who can think outside the square and deliver what others might consider impossible.
At Versent, we embrace the notion of Family: working together to achieve outstanding success.
Curious?
but honestly, we are more interested in you!