Engineering Team Lead

What happens between clicking ‘buy now’ and your purchase arriving at the door? Well, a lot of things need to happen and that is where Starshipit helps tens of thousands of businesses.

As an engineering team lead for Starshipit, you are a master of the craft of software engineering, and passionate at supporting your team to become masters as well. You are equally at home authoring code and overseeing the technical quality of the code of your team. Working alongside and with support of the business leadership you will help shape the product, technical and cultural direction of product engineering.

What success looks like:

• Master at your craft, considered a thought leader by your peers.

• Successfully mentor fellow engineers to enable technical growth.

• Support a culture of ownership, from project discovery to operation in production.

• Ship rapidly at a high quality and enable others to do the same.

• Can diagnose and resolve curly issues in your code and in the code of others.

• Seek out clarification and manage any necessary ambiguity elegantly.

• Actively manage stakeholders and tailor your communication to suit them.

• Level up the product by owning quality and architectural decision making as well as providing pragmatic feedback in PR and design reviews.

• Prepare and deliver technical training on emergent topics to the engineering team.

• Lead and coordinate multi team initiatives on code and product quality and security.

Required skill and experience:

• 5+ years building c#/dotnet web applications or apis.

• 5+ years working with large volume sql server queries.

• 5+ years cloud native experience (preferably azure).

• Experience mentoring a full stack software development team.

• Experience with CI/CD tools including github actions or Azure Devops

• Detailed knowledge of azure app services, azure api management or similar.

• Detailed knowledge of sql server and other database or state management systems.

• Detailed knowledge of redis, service bus or other caching and propagation systems.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Experience defining and executing multi year technical roadmaps.

• Experience leading, mentoring or managing full stack engineering teams

Life at Starshipit  

Our people are what make us great, and our culture is something we’re especially proud of. Not only are we diverse, but we’re also inclusive which means our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective are valuable and reflected in how we interact with our partners, customers, and teams.  

We have got the perks covered with:  

• Additional days annual leave for long service  
• Half day Fridays throughout the summer  
• Fully subsidised private healthcare
• Paid parental leave
• Ongoing learning and development with accelerated career growth  
• While our HQ is in Auckland, we’ve been working flexibly and under a hybrid working style since day dot. Whatever works best for you, works for us. 

Starshipit is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of age, ancestry, race, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or any other legally characteristics and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.