About the role
Responsibilities:
- Set a strategic and technical vision across teams.
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of each stateful microservice.
- Lead a team of engineers who design, develop, and maintain our technology to enhance the user experience for News & Entertainment Products.
- Lead the design and timely implementation of critical platform features.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Product and Program to identify business requirements and provide technical solutions.
- Mentor, empower and provide career growth opportunities for team members.
- Foster and maintain effective communication channels with your team members, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Monitor and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest relevant and ranking technology trends and innovations, and evaluate their potential impact on our domains.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in the software engineering field, with a focus on building highly available architecture, shipping robust code and creating a positive team environment.
- At least 5-7 years of experience in a leadership or management role in technology.
- Demonstrated success in being part of a team in problem-solving, designing and implementing software at scale.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and external partners.
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals.
- Experience with performance tuning and building/maintaining software that is in the critical path.
- Bias towards action, with experience delivering high-quality software solutions on time, at scale and within budget.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with consumer-facing services and high-scale systems.
- Experience working with identity, commerce and/or authorisation systems
- Understanding of deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with remote global teams and a flexible schedule to meet in different time zones.
- Experience leading multiple teams.