Team Lead, Engineering
The Team Lead, Engineering role
LEAD | CHAMPION | INNOVATE
We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Mobile team. You'll drive agile delivery practices, with a focus on continuous improvement, lean and systems thinking embodying a “you build it, you run it” approach to development and operations. While you'll possess strong technical engineering skills you will also leverage on you people leadership skills to coach, mentor and promote good engineering practices, like clean coding & pair programming. If this sounds like you - please read on and apply below!
Hello, we're A Cloud Guru
Our friends call us ACG.
A Cloud Guru was built by engineers for everyone, everywhere. Here, you’ll have the freedom to follow your curiosity. We’re not afraid to just try, because when you’re working with cutting edge technologies, experimentation and trying out new ideas have to be encouraged and celebrated. Our engineers are building the world’s largest (and most awesome) cloud learning platform. Why? Our mission is to teach the world to cloud. Our fun, practical courses have helped over 2 million people learn to cloud, and we’re just getting started.
There aren't many company cultures like A Cloud Guru's in the world. This year, we were awarded the #1 Place to work in Austin, as well as Best Company Culture and Best Companies for Diversity.
What makes the Engineering team awesome...
We’re not a training company that just decided to sell training courses. We grew up out of the cloud ecosystem. We were a bunch of cloud engineers who pulled people together to create a training platform. That’s why we’re genuinely passionate about what we create. And we are known for practicing what we preach. We’ve built a product using cloud-first Serverless Architecture with tools like Lambda, API Gateway, GraphQL and ReactJS. All that aside, we're a friendly, down-to-earth, and collaborative group. There are no high-performing jerks and no heroes. Just great teams.
You'll do well at ACG if you're open to learning and trying new things, and you like to be surrounded by other friendly, passionate and driven people. –Natasja, Makeup Guru (and Software Developer)
As a Team Lead, Engineering at ACG, you’ll get to:
- Drive strong Agile delivery practices, with a focus on continuous improvement, lean and systems thinking
- Work with the Product team to understand and analyse business requirements in order to design and implement technical solutions
- Collaborate with Design team to refine and implement design systems that meet brand guidelines while offering scalable and reusable components to improve development
- Be accountable for the quality of the entire technology stack from infrastructure to the front end
- Use DORA metrics and data to drive improvements and understand the impact of changes
- Own and operate the services and systems the team is responsible for, taking responsibility for availability, performance, security and incident management
- Ensure products are well designed, well built and have flexible architectures so that they meet today’s needs whilst providing flexibility so that they can be incrementally extended and improved as requirements change and grow.
- Develop and supports build pipelines, advocating for Continuous Delivery and strong DevOps practices
- Solve complex business logic problems, recommend new ways to utilise technologies incorporating context around scalability, cost, code maintenance
- Participate in an on-call support roster
What you bring to the table
We focus on hiring values-aligned people, because we believe the right person can learn all the things to be successful in their role. Self-belief plays a big part in what you apply for. We encourage all job applicants to apply even if they are nervous to do so. Uni degrees aren't required for any roles, and career gaps or switches are totally welcome.
- Demonstrated experience leading Agile Software Engineering teams or managing people and prioritising objectives
- Experience with Mobile App development as well as experience writing software using Node and React Native
- Experience with other aspects of building software such as; software architecture, tooling, DevOps, SRE, incident management, threat modelling and product analytics/monitoring
- Experience driving process improvements to increase team effectiveness and quality; such as TDD, BDD, DDD or clean code and other design principles
- Ability to establish relationships, manage stakeholders and work with other business teams, using external feedback to adapt the way we ship products
We want the people who care about doing a good job. The ones who have the humility and hunger to learn. - Sam Kroonenburg, Co-Founder and CEO
More than a job
Where you work isn’t just a career decision — it’s a life decision. Everyone has family, friends and interests outside of their careers, so we offer perks and benefits to make work, work better for you.
- 5 weeks annual leave + sick time + holidays. Because even when your office is your living room, we all need time to unplug.
- Remotely awesome. Get $700 to level up your home office, monthly snack boxes, free Headspace access, weekly lunch funds, and $50 monthly for internet.
- Remote first environment. Feel connected to your coworkers with events inspired by our values, weekly virtual happy hours, and lunchtime trivia.
- $1,000 USD continuing education budget. All Gurus get $250 USD a quarter to spend on personal development.
- 2 hours each week reserved for learning. Every Friday for 2 hours, we put down our normal work and spend time learning something new.
- Get certified on us. A Cloud Guru will cover the cost of sitting all industry cloud certifications.
What’s the interview process like at ACG?
Applying for a job can feel intimidating and like a full-time job of its own. You shouldn’t have to burn through a week of sick time or all your best out-of-office excuses just to put feelers out for a new career opportunity. It’s our goal to provide you a fair, efficient interviewing experience that respects you and your time — and to do it all with a touch of delight.
Once you submit an application, we’ll review it. If you’re a good fit, you’ll have an initial chat with a recruiter over the phone. A phone interview with a manager typically follows. Depending on your role, you might then be asked to do a little homework (but nothing too time consuming). Then we’ll schedule a Zoom call to meet other members of the team, answer any questions you have, and give you a feel for what it’s really like to work at ACG. If you're on the fence, just give it a try.
Keep being awesome, cloud gurus!