Lead Software Engineer

About Cascade

We are a global software company at Cascade, and we consistently rank as the World’s #1 strategy execution platform.

We make visions happen by acting as the strategic brain of your organization, remediating the chaos of running your business so that you can move forward.

Thousands of leading organizations leverage our Cascade platform to plan, execute, and track their strategies for realized performance and accelerated decision-making.

Our customers are redefining the world–executing strategies that range from deploying life-saving vaccines to building the world’s fastest Formula One car.

Our customers are leaders in their industries, redefining the world as we know it. From battling the AIDS epidemic and establishing a supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, to building the world’s fastest Formula One car, Cascade has been a critical component in driving their success.

We are a team of over 100+ passionate Cascaders, dedicated to building the future of strategy execution. We are rapidly scaling up and aspire to have Cascade in the hands of millions of people, empowering them to drive alignment, business observability, and focus within their organizations.

About the Role

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a Lead Software developer responsible for developing new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Join a product and engineering division of ~30 to lead a product focussed, stream-aligned team of 4-6 engineers.
• Be accountable for technical designs, code reviews, test approaches, and release process within your team, working with them to help them be better developers individually, and the team to get continually better as a unit.
• Lead your team of developers, work closely with the team’s product manager and designer to set product direction, and coordinate and share knowledge with the other engineering team leaders
• You’ll work with the engineering and product leadership team to steward the product, our team culture, practices, release cadence, and quality focus.
• Mentor and support the engineers in your team to help them better themselves, and build a strong, safe, and friendly team environment!

About you

• 7+ years Dev experience
• Engineering leadership experience (doesn’t need to be in a formal leadership role — but demonstrated leadership of a project or effort with accountability for outcomes.)
• Strong JavaScript experience (TypeScript)
• Hands-on experience with Node JS, and experience desirable in Kubernetes, Lambda, and/or Terraform
• Strong skills in software architecture and systems design, especially with high scale or distributed systems.
• Experience consuming and developing REST, GraphQL or RPC APIs
• Experience working with with a cloud platform like AWS (preferred) or GCP
• Understanding of and experience with different database varieties and their strengths and weaknesses

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation package + equity.
• Work from anywhere in Australia (100% remote work).
• Quarterly get togethers in our Sydney CBD headquarters
• Stock options.
• Be a part of building something great!