Early Childhood Educator (Certificate Iii) – Play-Based Leader

Department Of Education Victoria; Australia; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthdays off

Early-mark Fridays

Job summary

ShiftCare is seeking a driven engineering lead to manage the main feature development team, ensuring scalable, reliable systems and high-quality delivery. You will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and align roadmap goals with product managers across the organization.

You’ll report to the CTO and work with cross-functional teams, maintaining a high-performance culture and implementing best engineering practices to support rapid growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Experience designing and shipping scalable, reliable systems, ideally in Ruby on Rails, React/Vue, AWS.
• Proficiency in Ruby, React JS, Vue JS.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience with code reviews and problem-solving in Ruby environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the main engineering team to develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Promote good engineering practices within the team and beyond.
• Identify and implement improvements to our products and processes to support growth.
• Coordinate the delivery of features from the roadmap through each stage of the development cycle.
• Lead by example in terms of excellence, priorities, and risk evaluation.

Skills

Ruby

React JS

Vue JS

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React.js

Vue.js

AWS

Job description

Job Description

ShiftCare’s innovative software is a market leader which helps Australian & North American disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals streamline the way they work by creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, enabling businesses to grow.

About The Team You’ll Be Joining

The ShiftCare Engineering team is on a mission to make ShiftCare accessible to more businesses across Australia and North America, but this is just the beginning of our journey. As we continue to grow at a rapid rate, we are having a fun time scaling our systems and processes appropriately.

You will help us ensuring our main feature development team delivers software designed, built and maintained to the highest standards to enable our growth.

We treat software development as a craft and are passionate about reliability, our customers, and doing more with less.

Reporting to ShiftCare’s CTO, you’ll manage remotely the engineers in the main feature development team and the ones to be hired, and be responsible for the team’s health and outcomes.

You’ll partner with the Product Managers and other leaders across ShiftCare Engineering to craft our roadmap, processes, and goals.

What You’ll Do In The Role

• Lead the main engineering team to develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Promote good engineering practices within the team and beyond.
• Identify and implement improvements to our products and processes to support our growth.
• Work on the team’s health on its path to becoming a high-performing team
• Coordinate the delivery of features from the roadmap through each stage of the development cycle.
• Lead by example in terms of excellence, attention to detail, evaluating priorities and risks, designing scalable solutions, etc.

***Please note this is an Australian based role and is only open to individuals with full Australian work rights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• You have ample experience designing and shipping scalable, reliable and maintainable systems that operated at large scale, ideally in a similar stack as ours: Ruby on Rails, React/Vue, AWS.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby, React JS, Vue JS
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• Deep experience with technical problem-solving and code reviews ideally within a Ruby environment
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies and best engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

If you have an appetite for a startup turned scale-up environment, enjoy making decisions and drive change, then this could be for you!

ShiftCare is progressive in its thinking of staff wellbeing & interest and as such we offer:

• Birthdays off: We understand that everyone deserves to celebrate their special day. That’s why we offer a paid day off to all employees on their birthday
• “Early-mark Fridays”: We understand the importance of taking time off to recharge and relax.