Android Technical Lead

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tact, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

A career in Software Engineering will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. 

As an Android Technical Lead, you will build teams, products, and services. You will be responsible for technical architecture, growing the team, ensuring collaboration across a multitude of disciplines and providing support to individuals through your coaching, mentorship and leadership skills.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. 

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

What you’ll do: 

The Android Tech Lead for our Apps Platform team is a technical leadership role, ensuring that our Android App technical domain and solutions meet both our current and future organisational and customer needs.

• Working along side our product managers and design system team, you will create a technical vision for the team that strikes a balance between flexibility and complexity, whilst keeping focus on app performance and speed to market. Our native apps are API driven, it’s built to scale across Carsales and our lifestyle apps.
• You will be identifying new patterns and solving them, serving multiple experience teams that integrates seamlessly with our core platform, from a technical and operational perspective.
• Your technical leadership will span across our Buy Platform (Web & API) and Design System (TORQ), as well as across our iOS and Android teams. Your leadership will ensure that we collaborate and converge where it makes sense to, ensuring that the right people are involved to make technical decisions in a timely manner.
• Our Android apps are built natively in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving a few initiatives - enhancing the implementation of our design system, continuously upgrading our CI pipelines, and driving automation test strategies. You’ll also be empowered to define future opportunities and engage with stakeholders at various levels with clarity and purpose.
• You will mentor and coach other app engineers to ensure our team is at the forefront of technical innovation and help to create an environment that retains, nurtures and attracts top apps engineering talent.
• Define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs

What are we looking for? 

• Proven technical leader of large mobile apps teams in a high traffic, complex and fast-paced environments.
• Experience in the build and adoption of app platform capabilities and design systems that enable the delivery of organisational and customer needs at speed and scale.
• A strategic thinker and technical expert in the world of apps, you know your APIs and also what’s happening in the Apple space.
• Have defined and communicated an inspiring technical vision to various stakeholders, taking accountability to deliver towards it.
• Make the complex appear simple, with your strong conceptual understanding and ability to communicate on point.
• Be a humble team player, with proven ability to build relationships and connect people at all levels

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.