Engineering Team Lead

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big?

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small - small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other. 

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we’re transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve and we’re not afraid to take bold steps to get there. 

We embrace hybrid working combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing. 

What’s on offer 

• Recognition as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer. 
• A highly engaged, collaborative team where you’ll learn from exceptional talent. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave. 
• Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health. 

Job Description

What you’ll do

We are looking for a technically strong leader who will partner with your Product Manager and Product Designer, to deliver the technical vision for your products and will have no problem coaching, mentoring and developing your people in the right direction. 

You will drive innovation on products and services that will improve our customer experience as well as scale our systems as our customer-base continues to grow.

• Leading your team in identifying, comparing, selecting, and implementing technology solutions and partnerships to meet current and future needs
• Designing and leading the implementation of our strategy for technology while ensuring the implementation and enforcement of technology standards across the organization
• Advocating and communicating technology capabilities internally and externally, including leadership, customers, partners, and vendors
• Direct report line management responsibilities

Qualifications

What we are looking for

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously)
• Understand and share expertise in people leadership, motivating, coaching, mentoring and developing software engineers.
• You have experience architecting and building robust and scalable platform in the cloud - on high traffic sites, for scalability, reliability and performance. You also know how to cost optimize your cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• You are an expert of C#, .NET core, you have worked on web technologies such as ASP.NET MVC, Javascript and angularjs/react.
• You have built applications with SOLID and micro services principles.

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.