Senior Web Dev (Frontend Focus) - Step up to Tech Lead
Squiz, New Zealand
Job Description
Squiz is looking to add a Senior Developer to it's professional services team, someone who is looking for a step up in their career. Stepping into a Tech Lead role you will have the opportunity to mentor and guide other developers as well as play a key role in the delivery of solutions. You will focus on assuring our clients get the best result possible (technical and best practise).
We’re location-flexible! This role is open to all candidates on the east coast of Australia.
Who you are:
For this role, we ask that you can demonstrate:
- Strength in frontend web development technologies - Javascript (vanilla Js and various frameworks React), Html, CSS etc
- Experience with website, portals, intranets and CMS
- Desire to continue coding and being very hands-on
- Confidence and articulate communication skills
- Experience in a client-facing role, and skilled at managing stakeholders
- Experience in planning, designing and building, high-quality, robust websites or applications.
- Experience at providing technical leadership
- Analytical capabilities to consider multiple solutions, and assess strengths and weaknesses of each
- Experience in gathering and writing technical specifications
Nice to have:
- Experience working in a client facing role - Consulting or Digital Agency
What you would do:
- Overall technical delivery of projects (budget, timeline, quality, scope)
- Ensure buy-in from development teams and stakeholders to proposed solutions
- Ensure best development practise is followed
- Provide accurate estimates on tickets
- Mentor and provide direction to peer developers
- Strong, respected partnership with the Agile Project Manager
- Technical delivery of the project/work to the client’s satisfaction
- Constant evaluation and validation of technical assumptions
- Feedback to Development Manager on areas of training / professional development for developers
Why work for Squiz?
You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.
We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.
Who we are:
Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online.
Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.
The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.
We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.
We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with why? to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.
We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer we commit to respond to every applicant.
Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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