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Head of Engineering
Overview:
My client is a successful scale-up seeking a dynamic Head of Engineering to lead our engineering team through a period of rapid growth. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in scaling platforms and teams, coupled with deep expertise in distributed systems architecture. You will work closely with our UK-based CTO, manage a growing team, and ensure platform stability and scalability as the business continues to expand globally.
Key Responsibilities:
Scaling Platforms and Teams:
Head of Engineering
Location: | Melbourne |
Discipline: | Development |
Job type: | Permanent |
Salary: | $250000 to $350000 |
Contact name: | Elsa Sudan |
Contact email: | elsa.s@interpropeople.com |
Job ref: | 903796 |
Published: | 2 days ago |
Overview:
My client is a successful scale-up seeking a dynamic Head of Engineering to lead our engineering team through a period of rapid growth. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in scaling platforms and teams, coupled with deep expertise in distributed systems architecture. You will work closely with our UK-based CTO, manage a growing team, and ensure platform stability and scalability as the business continues to expand globally.
Key Responsibilities:
Scaling Platforms and Teams:
- Lead the scaling of platforms and engineering teams during rapid growth, managing increasing complexity and ensuring platform stability as the user base and workload expand.
- Recruit, develop, and lead engineering teams across diverse geographical locations, including Australia, India, Sri Lanka, and beyond.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture, driving team development and managing performance across multiple regions.
- Design and implement distributed systems that handle large-scale data and high availability.
- Architect microservices solutions, data partitioning, service orchestration, and event-driven architectures.
- Ensure system scalability and reliability, with a focus on performance tuning, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, and cloud-native solutions is essential.
- Manage asynchronous communication and data processing through message brokers such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
- Drive strategies to enhance developer productivity and efficiency through optimized workflows, automation, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.
- Enforce best practices in code quality, testing, and release management. Lead initiatives that improve software quality metrics and team performance.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the engineering teams, aligning them with business goals, and continuously drive improvements based on insights.
- Proven experience in both scale-ups and larger organizations. You understand the nuances of working within a scale-up, driving rapid growth, while also bringing experience from larger, more structured environments.
- Extensive experience in scaling engineering teams and platforms during periods of significant growth, managing teams across global locations (Australia, India, Sri Lanka, etc.).
- Strong background in distributed systems architecture, including microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native technologies (Azure, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Track record of ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance, including expertise in fault tolerance, performance tuning, and load balancing.
- Experience working across global time zones, specifically with UK and US stakeholders, and flexibility to engage in evening calls due to global operations.
- Ability to implement productivity-enhancing tools and strategies, improve software quality, and deliver key outcomes that align with business goals.
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including scaling platforms and teams.
- Strong understanding of both scale-up dynamics and the processes of larger organizations.
- Expertise in recruiting, developing, and leading diverse teams across global locations.
- Deep technical knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience working with global stakeholders, including evening meetings with UK/US teams.
- Strong focus on outcomes and delivering impact by improving developer productivity, enforcing best practices, and driving measurable improvements across the engineering organization.
- Opportunity to lead during a pivotal stage of growth, with significant influence over the future direction of the engineering team and platform.
- Work in a high-growth environment with a global focus, engaging with teams across Australia, UK, US, and beyond.
- Competitive compensation package with a clear path for future growth and impact.
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