Software Engineering Manager

Company Description

SKUTOPIA integrates with eCommerce storefronts (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc) and manages orders, inventory tracking, warehousing, and distribution. We've also deployed Australia's first automated micro-fulfilment centre! Using robotics, computer vision, and great software we're giving eCommerce merchants the ability to compete on even footing against the likes of Amazon.

We're now looking for an Engineering Manager to join a software development team where solving NP-Hard problems is the day-to-day and business-critical, not just part of the interview process.

• About the role

Due to the expansion of the software engineering team, we are looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead a talented team of software engineers (we expect you'll have up to 20 direct reports, as we grow). You'll spend 80% of your time coaching, mentoring and helping those individuals to achieve their potential, and the remaining 20% hands-on with technical work. We're working with Node, React, TypeScript, GraphQL and Google Cloud. There's some interesting work with robotics in micro-fulfilment, and also data engineering and MLOps challenges, which will increase as we scale - we think it's pretty fun stuff but we're biased!

Whilst it's a fast-paced, high-growth environment, we aren't sacrificing quality and are committed to building things right. That means we're looking for a leader who can help make sure the team is following best practices around things like TDD, CI / CD, and who will help make sure we're up to date with what's happening in the industry and flags ways we can imrpove.

We believe it's important to be clear about where we're going, and transparent about how we'll get there so we have open sourced our Technology Strategy. It's available on our Careers page for you to check out.

We follow Scrum, with a daily stand up and 2 week sprints. Most of the team work from home (across Australia and Vietnam), and we trust them to manage their time and get stuff done, and they absolutely deliver.

We keep track of what's happening with Jira and Confluence, use Slack and Google Meet to stay in touch, and try and limit unnecessary meetings.

If you're in Sydney, you're welcome to work from our (beautiful, dog friendly) office in Alexandria, otherwise WFH anywhere in Australia, or we can chat about coworking spaces if that's what suits you best.

We're forecasting serious growth in the business over the next couple of years, so we're confident that there will be plenty of challenges and opportunities to develop your skills and grow with us. It's definitely not going to be boring!

If you're keen to find out more, get in touch via the link.

If you don't have a CV to hand, a link to your LinkedIn profile or other online presence is absolutely fine.

You'll have a quick chat with our recruitment team, followed by two interviews covering both technical and cultural elements. It's a two way process though, so we'll take the time to tell you more about the role and team, and answer all your questions, and schedule additional chats if necessary.