Mobile Technical Lead
Tradify
Join us at Tradify Limited as a Mobile Technical Lead, where you will play a crucial role in leading the development of our mobile solutions that empower tradespeople. We are dedicated to transforming how tradespeople manage their businesses and improve their lives, and we are looking for an innovative engineer to help us in this mission.
As part of our dynamic mobile team, you will work on building cutting-edge mobile applications that provide excellent user experiences. You will design, develop, test, and deploy software, collaborating with product managers, UX/UI designers and other engineers to deliver features that delight our users.
Your work is not just about writing code; it's about contributing to a product that has a direct impact on users’ daily lives. You'll have the opportunity to work on various mobile development projects, improving functionality and enhancing application performance as you navigate the exciting world of mobile technologies.
Every day, you’ll be faced with challenges that will push you to grow as an engineer. You will be attending team check-ins, responding to feedback, mentoring other developers, managing code reviews, and all while keeping the end user's needs at the forefront of your decisions.
This is a unique opportunity for a talented engineer looking to contribute to a growing company that values innovation, teamwork, and creative problem-solving. If you are passionate about mobile development and creating meaningful solutions for users, we'd love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, design and lead the technical aspects of projects
- Provide guidance and support to the team in resolving solutions
- Document architecture and design technical solutions to achieve business objectives
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
- Design and maintain highly usable solutions focussed on high levels of efficiency, reliability and always with design, configuration and test-driven best practice.
- Understand the current technology landscape and how we leverage our technology investment.
- Actively seek to produce value by building the right thing to provide the right business outcomes.
- Support and guide less experienced members of the team.
- Produce detailed design documentation as required.
- Collaborate with product owners, lead architects and development managers to build out the capabilities of development and DevOps internally
- Find effective ways to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of solutions which empower our business users
- Ensure you and the wider team are adding value by genuinely taking ownership of the systems it designs and delivers. Design and develop business functionality while improving code quality and infrastructure.
- Build scalable, unit-testable solutions for our mobile applications and do code reviews.
- Champion a culture of good security, coding standards, architecture patterns, resiliency, and documentation practices.
- Work across all phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, operations, and support).
- Lead a cross-functional team to understand requirements, do product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, and retrospective.
- Communicate effectively and efficiently with all engineering team members and promote a strong sense of teamwork.
- Mentor and coach other developers and collaborate with offshore teams while leading technology direction and improving the codebase.
- Update the management team on the overall project, risks, and technology issues and propose suitable alternatives.
- Implement constant efficiency improvement and problem-solving processes
- Lead technical innovation and automation for the services provided to customers.
- Organize technical teams, distribute work and monitor progress, quality assurance, and performance, in a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Work closely with the Project Managers on the planning and execution of program development activities.
- Assist the Development Manager and CTO in optimizing production team efficiency.
- Team leadership: supervise developers, issue follow-up and ownership, and balance work among team members according to skills and individual workload.
- Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard
- Communication: information gathering, status report creation, issue-solving recommendations, and providing technical guidance to other team members.
- 8+ years of experience in mobile application development working across all stages of the product development lifecycle, including a minimum of 3 years in a leadership or senior developer role.
- Extensive experience in developing mobile applications using C# and frameworks such as .NET MAUI/Xamarin and MVVM, including in-depth knowledge of platform-specific requirements for iOS/Android.
- Experience with web application development using Angular, React, Typescript, MVC, C# and .NET technologies.
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (EF).
- Experience integrating with REST APIs and cloud services (Azure, AWS, etc.)
- Experience with mobile DevOps, cloud CI/CD and source control tools like Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Firebase, etc).
- Experience with unit testing and component/integration testing as part of the day-to-day development.
- Demonstrated understanding and experience in modern development techniques, best practices and architecture patterns.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor other developers in a fast-paced agile environment.
- Has demonstrated experience in working and integrating with SaaS products.
- Confident communicator who can explain digital ideas clearly to non-technical audiences and work effectively with non-technical colleagues. Adept at influencing, persuading, and challenging others through clear and concise verbal and written communication.
- A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.
Tradify is a fast-paced, action-oriented and sometimes unpredictable and challenging work environment, where our company values underpin everything we do. We focus on providing a fun and welcoming culture and offer a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. We care deeply about diversity and inclusion and ensuring the Tech space in Aotearoa reflects our diverse communities.
For the right candidate, we offer a great benefits package,
- Hybrid Working 3 office/2 home
- Down Tools Days (5 days a year to follow your passion)
- A Dog-Friendly office
- Legendary Monthly Team Lunches
- A values-based culture