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Lead Engineer

75% Flex
Full Remote
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
  • Remote from:Australia, New Zealand...
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Lead Engineer

75% Flex
Remote: Full Remote
Experience: Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

Offer summary

Qualifications: 10+ years of technical experience, Experience in large scale web applications.

Key responsabilities:

  • Provide technical leadership and expertise
  • Guide teams in designing technical solutions
  • Educate on emerging technologies
  • Provide coaching and mentoring support
  • Manage stakeholder interactions and expectations
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Envato
Information Technology & ServicesSME

https://www.envato.com/

501 - 1000 Employees

Job description

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We value inclusivity and diversity at Envato. Research shows candidates from neurodiverse and underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for roles if they meet all the criteria. We like to make our hiring decisions based on experience and passion, so if you’re keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments please let us know. We also encourage you to let us know the pronouns you use at any point during the recruitment process.

About Envato
 
We exist to empower creatives to thrive independently and as a community. We work to be the must-have, most used, intelligent and essential creative companion where we empower creatives to create freely and confidently, and accelerate their everyday creative process however and wherever they work.  

We proudly support the lives of creative pros all over the world, from web developers and graphic designers, to marketers, videographers, photographers and more. We’ve built a community where anyone can get their creative projects done, and where creators bring their ideas to life and in the process, earn a living doing what they love. Our mission is to be the singular destination for creative assets. It doesn’t get much better than that! 

We are a global and rapidly scaling business. Blending purpose and profit, we're a passionate B Corp, committed to making a positive impact on the communities we engage in. You can read more about our purpose, mission and values on our website.

We’re leaders in flexibility and have embraced ways of working to encourage this for a long time. Where we can, let’s make work, work for you! Our roles can be based ANYWHERE in Australia or New Zealand, and while we all mostly work from home we’re proud of how we keep our global team connected.

About the Role

As a Lead Engineer, you will provide thought leadership and technical expertise across the broader engineering team. Your deep understanding of business needs as well as your guidance to the teams in designing and building technical solutions will greatly impact business outcomes.

You will be joining an engineering team that is focused on the development, delivery and uplift of our flagship product, Elements. Elements is our subscription-based digital asset platform offering a vast library of creative resources to empower designers and creatives to do their best work and to bring their creative ideas to life! This role will provide leadership and technical guidance for engineers as well as drive new practises and initiatives to uplift how the teams work and improve current processes.

Responsibilities
  • Engages with delivery teams to help shape and critique their technical designs
  • Guides the technical evolution of our platforms while focusing on business outcomes
  • Educates the team on emerging technologies and approaches that are relevant to business 
  • Has a holistic view of the technical ecosystem across the entire business and proactively engages with other technical leaders to ensure mutual understanding, cooperation and coordination
  • Displays a high level of maturity in problem solving, maintaining a healthy balance between commercial and technical decisions and investments
  • Creates and maintains a technical vision and roadmap for their areas of influence that serve as a framework for technical decision making
  • Provides leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and support of other developers and technical leaders
  • Leads by example, promoting the Envato values and behaviours
  • Leads delivery of mid to large scale projects by cross-functional teams
  • Manages multiple stakeholder interactions and expectations
  • Reports on project progress and roadblocks
  • Coordinates developers on the team to ensure the component parts of a solution come together to form the whole solution

  • Experience Required
  • Is likely to have 10+ years of technical experience in their field, including lead responsibility on several projects
  • Has experience presenting high level technical designs and architecture to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Has proven experience designing, building and operating large scale web applications
  • Has proven ability to lead and deliver multiple projects over a period of time
  • Demonstrates the ability to understand the commercial context of technical initiatives and have shaped technical outcomes based on that information
  • Effectively takes and gives constructive feedback to work towards a better solution
  • Effectively and proactively communicates with stakeholders for delivery of required and desired functionality
  • Is professionally self aware and can objectively and dispassionately evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses
  • Proactively seeks and acts upon feedback on their performance from stakeholders and managers
  • Engages with the technology community and helps grow Envato as a technical brand
  • Displays honesty, openness, fairness, transparency and integrity in line with the Envato values 
  • Some of the great things we offer

    We are a remote business with full flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need - outcomes are what’s important to us.
    We provide MacBook Pros or HP’s for you to do your best work, as well as all your initial and ongoing tech setup to suit your individual needs.
    It’s important you love your home office so we will provide a contribution towards your set up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs. 
    Want to expand your family? We will support you! We offer 20 weeks paid primary carer leave (with super paid on top for the first 12 months); and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave. 
    Connection is so important in a remote business. That’s why we provide you with an annual allowance to meet up with colleagues and share some food and a laugh. 
    We want to reward your hard work with our  performance-based bonus program worth up to 12.5% annually.
    Continuous improvement is encouraged and we provide an annual budget for you to put towards your learning. 
    We know our product is awesome so we will provide you with a free Envato Elements subscription for your side gigs and/or personal use.
    Your wellbeing is paramount and we provide access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
     
    Our culture

    We are B Corp certified & believe in succeeding sustainably as one global team. 
    We are leaders in flexible working and really walk the talk - our work from anywhere benefit allows you to work and travel for up to 3 months in another country. We have also removed standard hours from contracts  to empower our people to work in a way that makes sense to them.
    We support working parents through a range of initiatives, including being a proud partner with Grace Papers.
    As part of our values and vision, Envato contributes 2% of profits to charities in each of the three main countries we operate in.

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    Envato is proud to be a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.

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    • Self-awareness and integrity
    • Proactive engagement and leadership

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