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The TechLifeSydney Shortlist: Here are February’s top tech jobs
Sydney’s tech scene is estimated to be 200,000 people short when it comes to filling vital jobs with local talent. It’s a worrying trend if you’re running a Sydney-based tech business with vacant positions to fill. But the scenario is flipped on its head, if you're looking for your next career move. The good news for you, is that Sydney's startup scene presents a vast array of opportunities, making your next move in tech easier than you might think.
Each month, the TechLifeSydney Shortlist, showcases some of the most exciting roles currently available across product management, engineering, and user experience - along with marketing and leadership vacancies across tech companies.
Here’s what’s open this month...
What’s the job?
Xref is on the hunt for a DevOps Engineer and Senior Backend Developer. It’s an exciting time to join this global tech startup and they’re looking for people who can get stuck into two weekly Agile releases as well as iteration planning sessions and project standups.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Xref here.
What’s the job?
The Tech Lead at Expert360 is responsible for leading a squad on technical decisions, shaping new architecture, coaching team members, owning delivery milestones, as well as supporting ambitious business goals. While the Senior Elixir Engineer has an unrivalled opportunity to work in an Agile environment rebuilding a legacy application into a new architecture that will support Expert360’s ambitious business goals.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Expert360 here.
What’s the job?
Phocas is looking for a driven Product Marketing Manager who will drive its go-to-market activities, competitive intelligence, messaging and positioning of its products to strengthen the brand, clearly explain the unique value it brings and ultimately support sales growth.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Phocas here.
What’s the job?
As an Engineering Manager at THE ICONIC, the primary responsibility is to the people this role supports; ensuring that they are growing as engineers, delivering healthy technology, and generally having a great time. A solid technical background is key so you’re able to challenge team members to be their best. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, technical delivery and process in this exciting environment.
What’s the job?
Lendi is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its engineering team. This newly formed team is building out the decisioning engine for Lendi. Taking data from a variety of sources (including banks, third parties and internal Lendi services), the engine runs a series of rules and calculations that are exposed via RESTful web services.Its logic that will ultimately help customers make better decisions on the loan choices that they make. Reporting to the Team Lead and working with broader engineering team and leadership teams, this is a great opportunity to impact the way Australians search, compare and apply for their mortgages online.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Lendi here.
What’s the job?
Swipejobs is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the team with expert experience in AWS. You’ll be responsible for managing technology across the full stack of the production system, including: perform code review and analysis, automation and optimisation support, driving and setting up the CI/CD environment. A minimum of three years experience in an extreme Agile environment within the Australian market is preferred.
What’s the job?
Practifi is investing heavily in its roadmap of strategic integrations and the Product Manager, Integrations will own that end to end. This is a commercially-oriented role, where success is measured in delighted clients and tangible ROI. It’s perfectly suited to someone with a passion for SaaS integration in the wealth management industry, with all the autonomy you need to deliver on your vision.
What’s the job?
You'll be a key player within your team of designers and engineers to deliver solutions that have a positive impact on Finder’s users, products, and technology stack. In this role, it is essential to understand the broader context of the software engineering and product development strategy, including the intersection of technical, business, and customer-facing factors that carve the way for your work to be successful.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Finder here.
What’s the job?
Kounta is an Australian foodservice technology expert that works with people who love to produce, sell and consume food. The team is looking for someone both analytical and empathetic who can leverage these skills to think like Kounta’s customers and then design smart, effective solutions to their problems. You’ll need to be a great leader and communicator with top organisation skills, and ideally you’ll have a sound understanding of technical systems, and basic experience with APIs.
What’s the job?
Handling tens of thousands of lessons every day, EdApp provides an opportunity to experience working on large-scale enterprise platforms. This role, which is the first of its kind for EdApp, is all about ownership and impact - being able to work closely with the Head of Infrastructure and CTO to build a robust solution for the company’s clients. You’ll be working with a modern tech stack with CI in place, where there are multiple deployments per week within this engineering team of 25+ front and backend devs.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at EdApp here.
What’s the job?
Powering delivery for Australia’s leading retailers, Shippit is a growing shipping engine for modern retailers saving time, money and removing friction in the delivery process. As Director of Product, you will be the creator of the product strategy and will guide a team of Product Managers in creating the future of the product and end-user experiences for the apps and shipping products. You will work as a team with Engineering, Design and Logistics to inspire and lead the teams to learn, explore and build great product experiences.
What’s the job?
You’ll help design, maintain and evolve Assignar’s operational data stores as its product grows. In this role, you’ll be able to challenge yourself to build a capability where analysts, product managers get insightful data to drive product innovation. And you’ll have the opportunity to work with all areas of the business to design data solutions across the Assignar ecosystem.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Assignar here.
What’s the job?
Rezdy has been focused on growing over the last several months creating a new opportunity for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join its equally scaling Engineering team. This role sets, communicates and delivers a clear technical vision for infrastructure and platform health across software engineering squads, building operational tooling, automating operational workflows, performing architecture/design reviews, investigating failures, outages and service degradation.
Each month, the TechLifeSydney Shortlist, showcases some of the most exciting roles currently available across product management, engineering, and user experience - along with marketing and leadership vacancies across tech companies.
Here’s what’s open this month...
Xref
DevOps Engineer
Senior Developer - Backend
What’s the job?
Xref is on the hunt for a DevOps Engineer and Senior Backend Developer. It’s an exciting time to join this global tech startup and they’re looking for people who can get stuck into two weekly Agile releases as well as iteration planning sessions and project standups.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Xref here.
Expert360
Tech Lead
Senior Elixir Engineer
What’s the job?
The Tech Lead at Expert360 is responsible for leading a squad on technical decisions, shaping new architecture, coaching team members, owning delivery milestones, as well as supporting ambitious business goals. While the Senior Elixir Engineer has an unrivalled opportunity to work in an Agile environment rebuilding a legacy application into a new architecture that will support Expert360’s ambitious business goals.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Expert360 here.
Phocas
Product Marketing Manager
What’s the job?
Phocas is looking for a driven Product Marketing Manager who will drive its go-to-market activities, competitive intelligence, messaging and positioning of its products to strengthen the brand, clearly explain the unique value it brings and ultimately support sales growth.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Phocas here.
The Iconic
Engineering Manager
What’s the job?
As an Engineering Manager at THE ICONIC, the primary responsibility is to the people this role supports; ensuring that they are growing as engineers, delivering healthy technology, and generally having a great time. A solid technical background is key so you’re able to challenge team members to be their best. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, technical delivery and process in this exciting environment.
Lendi
Senior Software Engineer - Java & Node.JS
What’s the job?
Lendi is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its engineering team. This newly formed team is building out the decisioning engine for Lendi. Taking data from a variety of sources (including banks, third parties and internal Lendi services), the engine runs a series of rules and calculations that are exposed via RESTful web services.Its logic that will ultimately help customers make better decisions on the loan choices that they make. Reporting to the Team Lead and working with broader engineering team and leadership teams, this is a great opportunity to impact the way Australians search, compare and apply for their mortgages online.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Lendi here.
Swipejobs
DevOps Engineer
What’s the job?
Swipejobs is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the team with expert experience in AWS. You’ll be responsible for managing technology across the full stack of the production system, including: perform code review and analysis, automation and optimisation support, driving and setting up the CI/CD environment. A minimum of three years experience in an extreme Agile environment within the Australian market is preferred.
Practifi
Product Manager, Integrations
What’s the job?
Practifi is investing heavily in its roadmap of strategic integrations and the Product Manager, Integrations will own that end to end. This is a commercially-oriented role, where success is measured in delighted clients and tangible ROI. It’s perfectly suited to someone with a passion for SaaS integration in the wealth management industry, with all the autonomy you need to deliver on your vision.
Finder
Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Design Systems Team
What’s the job?
You'll be a key player within your team of designers and engineers to deliver solutions that have a positive impact on Finder’s users, products, and technology stack. In this role, it is essential to understand the broader context of the software engineering and product development strategy, including the intersection of technical, business, and customer-facing factors that carve the way for your work to be successful.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Finder here.
Kounta
Product Manager
What’s the job?
Kounta is an Australian foodservice technology expert that works with people who love to produce, sell and consume food. The team is looking for someone both analytical and empathetic who can leverage these skills to think like Kounta’s customers and then design smart, effective solutions to their problems. You’ll need to be a great leader and communicator with top organisation skills, and ideally you’ll have a sound understanding of technical systems, and basic experience with APIs.
EdApp
Site Reliability Engineer
What’s the job?
Handling tens of thousands of lessons every day, EdApp provides an opportunity to experience working on large-scale enterprise platforms. This role, which is the first of its kind for EdApp, is all about ownership and impact - being able to work closely with the Head of Infrastructure and CTO to build a robust solution for the company’s clients. You’ll be working with a modern tech stack with CI in place, where there are multiple deployments per week within this engineering team of 25+ front and backend devs.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at EdApp here.
Shippit
Director of Product
What’s the job?
Powering delivery for Australia’s leading retailers, Shippit is a growing shipping engine for modern retailers saving time, money and removing friction in the delivery process. As Director of Product, you will be the creator of the product strategy and will guide a team of Product Managers in creating the future of the product and end-user experiences for the apps and shipping products. You will work as a team with Engineering, Design and Logistics to inspire and lead the teams to learn, explore and build great product experiences.
Assignar
Data Engineer
What’s the job?
You’ll help design, maintain and evolve Assignar’s operational data stores as its product grows. In this role, you’ll be able to challenge yourself to build a capability where analysts, product managers get insightful data to drive product innovation. And you’ll have the opportunity to work with all areas of the business to design data solutions across the Assignar ecosystem.
Finding the right company that matches your values, ambitions and work environment is super important so check out our insights into Life at Assignar here.
Rezdy
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
What’s the job?
Rezdy has been focused on growing over the last several months creating a new opportunity for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join its equally scaling Engineering team. This role sets, communicates and delivers a clear technical vision for infrastructure and platform health across software engineering squads, building operational tooling, automating operational workflows, performing architecture/design reviews, investigating failures, outages and service degradation.
Want to know which other Sydney tech companies are hiring? Explore the TechLifeSydney map here.
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