Software Engineering Manager

Description:

SafetyCulture

Software Engineering Manager

To help solve the challenges faced in an increasingly distributed workforce

Why SafetyCulture
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The world’s largest checklist app — and that’s just the beginning. As millions of inspections flowed into our platform one thing emerged: safety and quality share a relationship. Small but rapid changes in individual acts, repeated consistently are transformative. For safety, for quality, for efficiency. Our platform now includes sensors, issue reports, data capture, analytics, risk mitigation and mobile training.

About the role

What you'll do You’ll manage and grow a team of software engineers for our sensors offering, one of core Customer Facing Engineering teams, while contributing to evolving engineering practices and impacting positively on team health and culture. You’ll manage the overall strategy, planning, and execution of complex technical projects, and lead your team to meet delivery expectations.

The team In Sydney we have teams developing and supporting our SaaS platform, working on extending the functionality and longer-term strategic bets, including real-time incident reporting, analytics, and IoT. Each team has a engineering manager, product manager, designer, direct access to customers, and support from specialists in quality, SRE and specific technologies. Check out some of the things we’ve been doing in our blog.

**How you can have an impact ** As an engineering leader, you’ll have influence over the direction of the team and function, and a strategic impact on the overall business strategy. You’ll impact significantly on evolving engineering practices and culture to build a world-class engineering team.

Improving others’ ability to deliver great work, suggesting and bringing innovations, and driving initiatives focused on release safety, repeatability, and improving the way we do things. Experimenting with ways to become more efficient and productive, and bringing these learnings to the senior leadership team. We encourage involvement in the community, open-source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is a proven leader, who has successfully taken high-performance engineering teams through the scaling period;
• Has a strong record of hiring and developing great, diverse talent;
• Has successfully managed hybrid and remote teams working;
• Has a strong sense of urgency to deliver results and inspire the team to achieve beyond what they think is possible;
• Has a strong sense of ownership and accountability;
• Is enthusiastic about diving into the code and getting your hands dirty when needed;
• Has strong technical mastery in software engineering but remains curious and committed to learning and improving their craft.

What you'll get:
- Hybrid working, we encourage you to create the best work blend while working from your home and the local SafetyCulture office; - Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities; - Hackathons, Workshops, Lunch & Learns; - We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies. Office benefits:
- In-house Culinary Crew serving up daily breakfast, lunch and snacks; - Barista coffee machine, craft beer on tap, boutique wines and a range of non-alcoholic beverages; - Quarterly celebrations and team events: - Table tennis, board games, books library, and pet-friendly office. What you'll be responsible for

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  Stakeholder Engagement

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

• Scripting and Automation

  Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks

• Test Automation

  Create and implement code tests and software test automation

Skills you'll need

• Collaboration

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• Numerical problem solving

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• Attention to detail

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables