Engineering Manager - SMH/The Age App

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.
 

Job Description

In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading the native app engineering team responsible for our independent and highly respected mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. You’ll play a vital role in helping your team grow their skills professionally while delivering the product & technology roadmap for a best-in-class news experience to audiences around Australia.

You’ll be leading a cross functional squad of 7 mobile engineers including a quality engineer, and will partner closely with your Product Manager and Designer to deliver creative solutions to identified opportunities and challenges. 

Deliver business/audience value

• Partner with key stakeholders to translate business goals and requirements into effective engineering solutions & deliverables 
• Drive the continuous improvement of squad processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership

• Drive adoption of best practice and ensuring engineering decisions align with the project and product engineering strategy
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff

Drive high performance

• Establish and maintain a highly motivated and high performance team culture through one on one feedback, mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Effectively lead people processes including the hiring of new talent 

Qualifications

You are passionate about your team and their professional development. You remain engaged in their wellbeing, growing their skillset and assisting them in finding great opportunities to further themselves.

You are experienced working with either mobile or web development and technologies, and your knowledge allows you to provide meaningful support to your team by reviewing work and providing feedback.

Your ‘can-do’ and open customer centered approach makes you approachable to work with.

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

• 2+ years in a team leadership role with line management responsibilities
• Demonstrated knowledge of mobile application development and delivery 
• Demonstrated experience partnering with product managers
• A strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologies
• A demonstrated bias for action and proactive approach to opportunities and challenges
• A history of high performance and self improvement for yourself and those around you.

Nice to have:

• Experience building cross platform applications for both iOS and Android

Additional Information

Life at Nine

Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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