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About the Role
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will manage a team of 4–6 engineers while continuing to contribute technically. You will help the team deliver and maintain customer-facing products, solve complex technical problems and create meaningful outcomes for the citizens we serve.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and support a team of 4–6 engineers, creating trust, psychological safety and strong performance.
- Lead Agile/Scrum delivery, remove blockers and enable clear communication across teams and customers.
- Apply strong coding, system design and modern software engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
- Use delivery signals and metrics to guide decisions, improve ways of working and maintain quality.
- Contribute to team and product roadmaps that align with broader organisational priorities.
Requirements
- At least five years to 8 years of relevant software engineering experience, including a minimum of a couple of years leading a team of engineers.
- Hands-on full-stack development experience across back-end and front-end technologies, with strong programming fundamentals.
- Practical experience with Agile/Scrum delivery and working with product managers in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong knowledge of coding, system design and modern software engineering practices, including testing and automation.
- Experience building cloud-based SaaS products, ideally using AWS or Azure. Other cloud platforms will also be considered.
- Experience with web and API development, plus a working understanding of DevOps, SRE and software delivery lifecycle practices.
- Strong stakeholder management, prioritisation, coaching and mentoring skills.
- Exposure to AI-assisted software development is an advantage.
Skills
- Full-stack development
- Back-end technologies
- Front-end technologies
- Programming fundamentals
- Agile/Scrum delivery
- Coding
- System design
- Modern software engineering practices
- Testing
- Automation
- Cloud-based SaaS products
- AWS
- Azure
- Web development
- API development
- DevOps
- SRE
- Software delivery lifecycle practices
- Stakeholder management
- Prioritisation
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- AI-assisted software development
Location
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Work Type
- Flexible work
- Work from home
- Office connection
Experience Level
- 5-8 years of relevant software engineering experience
- 2+ years leading a team of engineers
Benefits
- Days of Difference leave
About the Company
- Civica makes software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world.
- Over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.
- Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day.
- Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.
- We're passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve.
- We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.
- We know that when our people are happy, they will work better and have greater work satisfaction.
- We're all different - and we love this about us.
- Inclusive environment - We provide an inclusive, safe and welcoming environment to all Civicans.
- There are opportunities to help you grow and be your best.
- Giving culture - We encourage you to give back through benefits such as our Days of Difference leave, where you can volunteer for a charity of your choice.
- We have the technology and tools to support you to work from home and come into our offices to connect and socialise with colleagues.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
- We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better outcomes.
- We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can, and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.
- We are especially keen to receive applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.