At Redbelly, we aspire for a world where everyone, everywhere has equal access to the economic infrastructure they need to improve their lives and are hard at work building our revolutionary open finance platform built on distributed ledger technology to deliver on that vision. Our purpose is to make financial relationships fair, efficient and useful for everyone. We aim to make distributed ledger technology consumable to users and businesses in meaningful ways that improve the way they transact.

At the heart of the Redbelly platform lies our novel Democratic Byzantine Fault Tolerant (DBFT) consensus algorithm developed under the leadership of our CTO, Associate Professor Dr Vincent Gramoli in collaboration with The University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61.

While we are immensely proud of our achievements to date which, among others, include an unprecedented consensus performance of 100,000 TPS with 100 nodes tolerating up to 33 byzantine nodes, a deterministic consensus translating to quasi finality and a highly secure blockchain that does not fork, our gaze remains firmly on the future and on the numerous leading edge technological challenges we will have to overcome in order to realise our ambition.

To make this possible, we see ourselves first and foremost as a product company where passionate product, engineering and delivery people work and ideate collaboratively as part of autonomous product teams to unleash the full potential of our technology to solve real-world problems for real businesses through captivating user experiences.

If you are looking to make a meaningful and positive change in the world by working with cutting-edge technology to bring fairness and innovation to financial relationships that impact everyone, this is the place to be.

The Role

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will bring thought leadership to and champion best practices in every aspect of Software Development at  Redbelly. You will manage all Engineers in your team and be committed to both helping them achieve their goals but also to ensuring that they  always perform to their highest potential to achieve company goals. To be effective in this role you will need extensive hands-on experience in a broad range of technical disciplines, commercial acumen and exceptional leadership skills. 

You (and the Engineers you manage) will be part of a product team and must be comfortable working alongside product managers and designers  to solve real user problems in both discovery and delivery phases of product development. 

Reporting to the CTO, in this role you will be responsible for: 

• Managing day-to-day operations of your team and addressing any matters that might be adversely impacting the team’s performance.
•  Coaching and mentoring members of your team in collaboration with our Principal Engineers through regular one on ones to help them  develop the core and functional competencies and hard skills they need to perform their roles and grow in their careers 
• Facilitating work breakdown workshops focused on defining and estimating technical tasks needed to implement prioritised user and  technical stories 
• Working with the Product Manager and Principal Engineers to ensure that user and technical stories have been clearly defined, understood and prioritised 
• Your team meeting Redbelly’s defined quality standards - as such, you will be expected to proactively keep yourself abreast of Redbelly’s standards and monitor the quality of the work produced by your team, work with individual team members and take remedial actions  when necessary 
• Proactively working with our Principal Engineers to ensure that Redbelly’s development standards are continually improved and remain fit for purpose 
• Keeping your technical skills up to date through hands-on contribution to the implementation of user and technical stories during sprints Proactively tracking and managing your team’s expenditure against the agreed budget. 

Essential Skills

• A computer science (or equivalent) degree and have held at least one technical leadership role with complex software design responsibilities
• Able to personally undertake all activities starting from grooming of user stories through to automated deployment of an application to production. To that end, we expect you will have:
• A proven track record with modern agile and engineering practices including conducting code reviews and providing feedback on component design, code quality and effective use of design patterns
• Expert-level knowledge of at least one programming language, testing framework, cloud computing platform and CI/CD technology
• Proficient with at least one end-to-end software development stack (e.g. MEAN, LAMP)
• Able to demonstrate the following key competencies among others:
• Proven leadership skills including the ability to motivate your team to perform at their best. Experience conducting performance management and salary reviews
• Clear communication skills, and the ability to convey complex concepts and ideas simply and concisely using Tact and discretion in dealing with sensitive information or resolving delicate issues and conflicts
• Ability to set clearly defined work and development objectives and target dates for self with a focus on results to be achieved in the context of your team, department and the overall organisation
• Effective facilitation of workshops to devise action plans for achievement of objectives.

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience working in the blockchain and Web3.0 industry

Tools we use:

• Miro
• Jira
• Confluence
• VSCode
• Githu

Redbelly is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage everyone from all backgrounds to apply. To apply, please email your expression of interest and resume to divya.puri@redbelly.network