Engineering Lead, Salesforce

Who we are? 

We are Athena and we’re a fintech company that has already transformed home loan lending in Australia for the better. We're reimagining home loans and showing Australia there's a lender on their side. Home loans are all we do. We place the power of independence in our customers’ hands and in yours. If you’re looking to start your career in the finance world and make a difference in a diverse, unified team we’d love to hear from you. 

About the Role

The Engineering Lead, Salesforce at Athena is responsible for providing technical guidance as well as leading a team of Software Engineers. They have excellent architecture and solution design skills and are quick to roll up the sleeves and join the team on delivering high quality code and solutions for data and analytics problems at Athena.

This is a hands-on leadership position with a moving slider on the engineering and leadership dimension, both should always exist but the precise split will be regularly fine tuned based on the specific needs of the team and the business.

We have a vision to build an AI-native platform team backed by a well oiled AI-DLC and the Lead should also have strong aspirations to jump onboard and familiarise themselves with this way of working and then evangelise it!

Key responsibilities:

• Ownership and full accountability for the team you lead and the platform domain


• Managing internal priorities


• Facilitating the daily scrum, spring planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings


• Working with product to drive the best tech path forward backed by an entrepreneurial spirit.


• Clarifying goals and actions to achieve them


• Handling performance feedback; Coaching and developing the team


• Architecting and designing software solutions, reviewing and collaborating with other engineers on internal and cross-team technical proposals


• Providing technical guidance and direction to team members


• Building out our core platform in Salesforce


• Building out our API layer using a micro-services architecture and components on public cloud infrastructure


• Running and operating the infrastructure in production and being responsible for the domain as per first principles.

About You:

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and a handful of years of experience under your belt


• You have demonstrable leadership and management experience


• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills


• You have strong Salesforce experience and Apex experience


• You have experience with micro-services


• You can troubleshoot issues in production, help determining root causes and proposing the most appropriate solution for the situation


• You can collaborate with software developers, product owners and other IT staff members in order to understand the goals, derive/adapt requirements and implement solutions


• You are comfortable with AI-DLC and working in an Agile, fast-paced DevOps environment


• You are a problem-solver and embrace the can-do attitude


• You preferably have BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field


• You are comfortable leading and managing people and being accountable for them.

You'll be joining an experienced team, passionate about being best in class in everything we do. We have a relaxed and fun atmosphere where you can bring your unique self and skills to help us all grow as a team. Be great, be you, play nice.

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.

Please be sure to add [email protected] to your contact list to ensure delivery of all correspondence from us.

Kind note to recruiters/agencies: we’ve got this one covered internally, but thank you for thinking of us.