The Role
Are you a passionate Android Engineer eager to make a significant impact on highly visible and critical products? Do you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your contributions directly shape the future of payments? If so, join our Devices and Hardware team as a Tech Lead and help us revolutionise how Australian businesses accept payments.
This role is ideal for a strong developer who is ready to step into a leadership position while continuing to remain hands-on with feature delivery. As a Tech Lead, you will contribute to solution design, mentor team members, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable software that powers Zeller's cutting-edge payment terminals and our exciting 'tap to pay' experience on mobile devices. This is a unique chance to accelerate your technical and product skillset, working on solutions that are truly essential to our customers' success.
What You Will Do
As a Tech Lead within our Devices and Hardware team, you will play a key role in both technical delivery and team guidance. Your responsibilities will include:
- Technical Contribution: Remain hands-on with technical delivery, contributing to the development of high-quality, scalable software for Zeller’'s payment terminals and 'tap to pay' mobile experience.
- Solution Design: Contribute to the design of technical solutions, ensuring they meet business and product requirements and are aligned with best practices.
Team Mentorship: Mentor team members, support their growth, and provide guidance on technical challenges and problem-solving.
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with stakeholders across product, design, QA to ensure alignment and successful delivery of payment solutions.
- Quality Oversight: Contribute to maintaining high code quality, championing best practices in testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
What You Will Bring
We're a fast-moving startup, and our approach to software quality and technical stack is always evolving. While we don't expect you to know everything, we are looking for:
- Deep Android Expertise: Proficiency in native application development for Android devices using Kotlin is essential.
- Mentoring Experience: Prior experience mentoring or supporting other developers (formal or informal).
- Technical Acumen: Familiarity with modern Android frameworks and libraries such as rxJava, Kotlin Coroutines, dependency injection (with a focus on Dagger2), and Apollo GraphQL.
- Architectural Savvy: Hands-on experience practicing CLEAN architecture, with an understanding of MVI (Model-View-Intent) being important.
- Quality First Mindset: Experience working in an environment that prioritizes software quality through automation. An understanding of how to write testable code and valuable unit tests is essential.
Beyond the technical skills, we're looking for someone who will truly elevate our team. You'll bring:
- Customer-Centric Drive: A growth mindset with a strong desire to work on high-impact projects, and the ability to empathize with our customers, understanding how your work directly contributes to their success.
- Emerging Leadership Potential: Demonstrated ability or strong interest in mentoring others, contributing to solution design, and balancing coding responsibilities with emerging leadership duties.
- Collaborative Spirit: Excellent communication skills and a passion for working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team that takes collective ownership of highly available products.
- Optimisation Focus: Experience building and optimizing software for hardware-constrained devices, or a keen interest in developing this expertise.
- Payments Passion: Prior experience in the payments industry or a genuine excitement to dive deep into this dynamic and ever-evolving sector.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: A strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership of outcomes.
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