Lead Software Developer (Sydney or Melbourne Based)

Applicants accepted via this link: https://apply.workable.com/nomoss/j/456B7C2683/
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**you're looking for.

Learning opportunities - the environment and psychological safety to learn skills that you’re not necessarily comfortable with, and the ability to learn from others in No Moss.

Working as a team on problems - you don’t have to work on something alone.
The ability to use your current skills within an environment that values innovation and doing good, while developing yourself and your skills towards your purpose.
A consultancy that can offer full time, flexible working and part-time opportunities, all which allow for satisfying and challenging work, while leaving room for the pursuit of yourself.

no moss in a nutshell.

At No Moss, our purpose is our people’s purpose. That means that every day, we’re looking for ways to help you find your purpose, and spend your life in its pursuit and maximisation. We call that the #PursuitOfTheUngooglable.

No Moss is an Agility, Product Development and Tech Consultancy, although we are less of a company than an anarchist commune of highly driven people who have aligned purposes. Together, we are looking at radically new ways to create economic value together, across technical innovation, consultancy, products and doing good.

We work with clients, from visionary founders with a dream, to budding scale ups with millions in funding and market traction, to well established enterprises in the top ASX 20. We work across a wide variety of industries, from retail to non profit to banking to aged care.

We also ensure about 10% of our profits go directly toward our non-profit partners, including One Child and Cause Corps; and our skilled volunteering opportunities are directed toward the latter.

As a consultancy, we provide a special rate card accessible only to non profits, helping everything from Indigenous students get connected to scholarships to teaching kids about recycling and ocean plastic via games.

We, and hopefully you, want to learn and grow and #DoTheUngooglable. We have a deep culture of teaching and learning: “a rolling stone gathers no moss”; looking after each other: “it’s okay to not be okay”; and customer delight: “a certain polish."

you need.

A consultancy, a product incubator, an innovation hub that prizes three things:

1. a system of radical transparency. We have an environment of psychological safety, where we are safe to fail. We talk about the customers we lose openly and the reasons why we lost them so we can talk about how to improve together; we publish our games (failed or successful) online to demonstrate our learning journey; We have an internally transparent salary grading and rate card, allowing everybody to know what everybody else makes for themselves and for the company. We make all this and more visible all the time to allow our people to focus instead on making things (and each other) better.

2. a place that values drive. On your first day, expect to be handed a blank sheet of paper and asked: what is your purpose in life? You’ll be asked to think about it, and declare it openly and hang it on the office wall, alongside those of every other no mosser. You’ll spend your career with us in its renewal, pursuit, refinement and sometimes rejection of this declared purpose as you discover something else. Along the way, you’ll gain mastery of your craft (if you don’t already have it); perhaps a mastery of a (few) new crafts; and definitely mastery of teaching others what you know.

3. An ecosystem of wholeness. We like you for all of you; not just the ‘work face’ you’ve been putting on. We like that you were a childhood piano prodigy, or had a previous career in construction. We respect that you dedicate your spare time to writing science fiction, or what you really care about is surfing with your children. We admire that your purpose is to take people off the streets, to create safe environments for people to grow and excel, or to challenge the notion that work-life balance isn’t just ‘life balance’. There’s room for diversity of thought at no moss, and we’re privileged to continually better our ecosystem toward that end.

you like.

Getting stuff done and sharing what you already know. You want to add to these organisational learnings and make us better. You enjoy putting the extra (smartly chosen) mile in to not work hard, but work effectively. You like and encourage conversations where we celebrate failing – personal, team-based, organisational – and subsequent learning.

you expect.

A place where people are good at listening and incredible at taking appropriate action. Other people who are purpose driven. People who value psychological safety. To be free to challenge the status quo and each other. An ecosystem of people who are outside their comfort zone nearly all the time, working mostly in their learning zone, occasionally edging into their terror zone.

we like.

People who are connected to our story and are inspired to be part of a community. People who want to give back to ecosystems that are finding new, more human ways of working.

our people.

Ask each other and the people we work with - “How are you?” and listen. They independently seek to learn and grow, and are motivated to teach and grow others. We rise to challenges and are resourceful in solving problems. And importantly we celebrate each other’s success.

we expect.

People who do what they say, and say what they’ll do. Outcome driven people who have a history of trying – resulting in both successes and learnings from their failures. People who love any one of technical innovation, products and strategic consulting.

we need.

We are looking for Lead Software Developers who have a love for solving challenging technical problems, while also having a deep human drive to coach and help those around you be better and more capable people, and are a champion for continuous improvement of the practices in your team.
You are able to self-manage with a consulting client, plus mentor other No Mossers. You have had a history of leading technology teams on projects from small “single-developer” projects, up to larger projects with multiple squads (or if you don't quite have that already, you are excited to keep developing it).

We are an organisation who is passionate about growing our ecosystem with individuals who ask ‘why’, have a growth mindset, and who have the same values as we do. We are looking for the right people, and once we find you we can scale and develop your experience to suit our clients and your purpose.

Joining as a Lead Software Developer, you will:

• Develop high-quality software design and architecture, by studying the needs of the business and users, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes and investigating problem areas.
• Identify, prioritise and execute tasks in an agile software development lifecycle.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Coach and grow the capability of your fellow No Moss developers.
• Be value focused - understand how to collaboratively work towards building the most valuable part of any system, with the information available right now. Resist the urge to gold plate in favour of building increments of code that can be validated and which deliver value to stakeholders.
• Build a shared understanding of technical solutions with both technical and business stakeholders, such as facilitating workshops, developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams and readable code.
• Lead and participate in practices that add to software quality, such as code review, automated and manual testing, continuous deployment and making use of appropriate tooling.
• Lead ‘in house’ efforts that actively contribute to our culture, knowledge and organisational norms. The salary band for our Lead Developer opportunities are currently paying up to AUD$140k, depending on the level of skills and experience you have at the moment.
  

Requirements

• You have a deep understanding of a range of web application frameworks and languages. This could include VueJS + Javascript/HTML/CSS, React + Typescript/HTML/CSS, Django + Python, NETCore + C#, Spring Boot + Java, Laravel/Symfony/CakePHP or Express (or similar) + Node.js.
• You have experience leading other developers, at a minimum leading a small team of developers.
• You have a willingness to apply the principles of software engineering in new environments, on new platforms and to new business domains.
• Good understanding of Agile principles and have experience working in an agile software development lifecycle.
• Ideally you have previous experience consulting with external clients, but know that we understand the importance of valuing your time and balancing that with our work.
• Our developer opportunities are based in either Sydney or Melbourne, albeit we are currently remote working due to Covid conditions.
• You're an Australian citizen or hold a current visa to work in Australia.

Benefits

Our culture and eco-system are important to us. If our purpose, vision and culture resonate with you, reach out to us. And in addition to that we also have a few other perks;

Our purpose is our people’s purpose. It underpins everything we do. That means that every day, we are looking for ways to help you find your purpose, and spend your life in its pursuit and maximisation. An ecosystem of wholeness. We like you for all of you; not just the ‘work face’.

• Flexible working arrangements – This could be part-time work, or selecting which will be your office days when we can return to an office again.
• Access to your own personal development coach
• 6 weeks Paid Parental Leave at full salary for primary carer (not including government-funded parental leave).
• 2 weeks Paid Parental Leave at full salary for secondary carer.
• Continuation of superannuation payments whilst on paid and unpaid Parental Leave.
• Opportunities to purchase leave.

Giving back. About 10% of our profits go directly toward our non-profit partners, including One Child and our paid volunteer days with Cause Corps, our not-for-profit micro-volunteering organisation whose mission is to "make doing good a daily habit."
If you have read all of this and feel that No Moss is the organisation for you, but this position isn’t quite what you are after, please get in touch regardless via [email protected]. Tell us your purpose and what you'd like to be doing, so we can give it some consideration for positions in the future.

Applicants accepted via this link: https://apply.workable.com/nomoss/j/456B7C2683/
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