Head of Engineering

Company Description

Whether you’re working from home or on your way to the office, chances are you’re probably reading this because you’re seeking a new adventure, or you’re up for a new challenge. GROW Inc might just be that for you! 

So, who is GROW Inc? 
Founded in 2016, we’re the Australian FinTech success story you probably haven’t heard about. We’re solving big problems in the Superannuation and Managed Funds industry. The administration platforms (the software that tracks everything to do with your super) are built on things you or your parents would recognise from the glory days of 90’s computing.

How are we doing it?
We’re solving this by disrupting the wealth management industry with DLTA, our platform built on Distributed Ledger Technology which improves the financial wellbeing of Australians. We’re making Super more timely and information more accessible whilst enabling wealth management companies to offer more cost effective solutions.

We’re rebels with a cause. We’re authentic, diverse, and embrace our differences as we continue to put a dent in the universe. We know diversity of thought helps us to build better solutions for our customers which is why we encourage the entire GROW team to bring their whole selves to work each and every day. 

Job Description

As the Head of Engineering for our Technology Foundations stream, your responsibilities will be as follows:

• Partner with the Product, Design & Operations leaders to develop of the Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Lead the delivery teams that are responsible for the delivery of our product roadmap and responsible for practices to help ensure we can deliver predictably

• Facilitate the continuous improvement of software delivery practices in the teams (i.e. Software Guilds, Training & specific projects)

• Lead Platforms teams to ensure software delivery teams have the right infrastructure & tools required for them to the end to end delivery of their services

• Lead Platforms teams on the continual management of our cloud costs

• Collaborates with Legal, Risk & Information Security to ensure we are effectively managing risk 

• Collaborates with the People team to create an outstanding people experience for the engineering team

Qualifications

Technology skills & knowledge required to lead our Technology Foundations stream:

• Extensive experience in software engineering - Deep understanding of software engineering concepts and practices. Ideally, former Senior Software engineer or Tech lead who has led complex software engineering projects. 

• Architecture - deep understanding of AWS services and how to compose them into a well-architected solution based on AWS 6 pillars of Well-Architected framework. 

• AWS Services

  • Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda

  • Data: RDS, S3

  • Networking: VPCs (Hub & Spoke), ALB, NLB, PrivateLink, CloudFront, WAF

  • Messaging: SQS, SNS, EventBus

  • Configuration: SSM, Secrets Manager

  • IAM - Organisations, Identity Centre, IAM 

  • Security - Guard Duty, Macie, Security Hub, Config

• CI/CD - Understanding of automating deployments via pipelines in CI/CD tools (GROW uses Buildkite)

• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform

• Containers - using Containers with AWS ECS

• Logging & Monitoring - Elastic

• InfoSec - understanding of technology controls used to apply InfoSec controls

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working at GROW

• ME Days - Take an extra day off per month (on top of your annual leave) from January to November!
• Birthday Leave - Take an extra day off per year on your birthday!
• Weekly Pay Cycle - No more waiting for PayDay!
• Hybrid Work Arrangement - We have a true hybrid arrangement!
• Exciting Discounts - Think movie tickets, gift cards & even electronics

Looking for a job can be stressful and we don’t want you agonising over the wording of your cover letter, so don’t include one. Just make sure your CV is well-written and detailed enough so we can get a better idea of the type of person you are. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, but you feel inspired to join our mission, we encourage you to send in your application. You never know, you could be the perfect person to join our team!

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