Lead Engineer

6 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand TOWER Insurance Full time

**Why you'll love working with Tower**

At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. Our people come first, we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with.

We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

**What will you be doing?**

Are you passionate about delivering beautifully simple and rewarding experiences for customers? Do you thrive on breaking complex problems into simple solutions? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you At Tower, we believe our people are essential to achieving the best outcomes. As the Lead Engineer, you'll play a critical role in fostering growth not only in yourself but also in our team and our culture. Your success in this role will be defined by your ability to create efficient, effective, and engaging engineering practices while delivering initiatives from your backlog.

**You can expect to be across the following**:

- Operational leadership of your team, including managing the performance of reports
- Coach and develop up to 6 direct reports, who may work across different squads
- Be the escalation point for high level technical matters and your people
- Challenge existing approaches to improve our engineering experience and practices
- Design solutions that balance short term objectives with long term objectives
- Create, maintain, and integrate with microservice APIs in Cloud Azure
- ...and or build beautiful accessible frontend experiences

**What you'll need**

To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate the following:

- Experience working and implementing change in an agile environment (preferably a SAFe)
- All aspects of people leadership, including coaching & managing performance
- 3+ Years of designing, implementing and maintaining microservices and digital frontends using best practices in the languages we use within Tower
- Facilitated of technical discussions and presentation of solutions to different stakeholders both technical and non-technical
- Previously demonstrating embedding new technologies and ways of working in line with industry changes
- Strong interpersonal skills, risk mindset and a secure coding expert
- Subject matter expert in both backend and frontend quality
- Technical expert in backend languages.NET OR Java/Kotlin AND Docker
- Technical expert in building frontends with NPM/Yarn, React, Redux & Typescript
- Strong understanding of Azure technologies
- Proficient in SQL Like Database Technologies
- Managing the wellbeing and performance of direct reports

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

**Highlights Include**:

- 16 weeks paid leave for the primary carer and four weeks paid leave for partners, for our Tower whānau in New Zealand and the Pacific
- A paid day off on your birthday and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; and support you with design-specific development and training opportunities; we also have programmes that recognise star performers
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful new Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more


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