Lead Engineer

at  Envato

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Is likely to have 10+ years of technical experience in their field, including lead responsibility on several projects
• Has experience presenting high level technical designs and architecture to technical and non-technical audiences
• Has proven experience designing, building and operating large scale web applications
• Has proven ability to lead and deliver multiple projects over a period of time
• Demonstrates the ability to understand the commercial context of technical initiatives and have shaped technical outcomes based on that information
• Effectively takes and gives constructive feedback to work towards a better solution
• Effectively and proactively communicates with stakeholders for delivery of required and desired functionality
• Is professionally self aware and can objectively and dispassionately evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses
• Proactively seeks and acts upon feedback on their performance from stakeholders and managers
• Engages with the technology community and helps grow Envato as a technical brand
• Displays honesty, openness, fairness, transparency and integrity in line with the Envato values

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Lead Engineer, you will provide thought leadership and technical expertise across the broader engineering team. Your deep understanding of business needs as well as your guidance to the teams in designing and building technical solutions will greatly impact business outcomes.
You will be joining an engineering team that is focused on the development, delivery and uplift of our flagship product, Elements. Elements is our subscription-based digital asset platform offering a vast library of creative resources to empower designers and creatives to do their best work and to bring their creative ideas to life! This role will provide leadership and technical guidance for engineers as well as drive new practises and initiatives to uplift how the teams work and improve current processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engages with delivery teams to help shape and critique their technical designs
• Guides the technical evolution of our platforms while focusing on business outcomes
• Educates the team on emerging technologies and approaches that are relevant to business
• Has a holistic view of the technical ecosystem across the entire business and proactively engages with other technical leaders to ensure mutual understanding, cooperation and coordination
• Displays a high level of maturity in problem solving, maintaining a healthy balance between commercial and technical decisions and investments
• Creates and maintains a technical vision and roadmap for their areas of influence that serve as a framework for technical decision making
• Provides leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and support of other developers and technical leaders
• Leads by example, promoting the Envato values and behaviours
• Leads delivery of mid to large scale projects by cross-functional teams
• Manages multiple stakeholder interactions and expectations
• Reports on project progress and roadblocks
• Coordinates developers on the team to ensure the component parts of a solution come together to form the whole solution