Engineering Manager

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company with our investments spanning Television, Video on Demand, Print, Digital, and Radio.

Nine lives at the intersection of Australia’s best content, conversation and culture.

The Nine Product and Technology team build and maintain some of the most highly respected consumer applications and websites in Australia, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Stan, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and 9Now, as well as their content management systems, services and middleware.

The Consumer Platform team is a newly formed portfolio within Nine Product and Technology. It sits at the heart of the Consumer Group and its main objective is to build Nine’s new Integrated Audience Platform. This new platform will support Nine’s suite of consumer products and centralises essential functions such as subscriptions, billing, payments, SSO, and marketing communications. This will ultimately give Nine the ability to harness its wealth of unique content and customer data to drive digital subscriptions and revenue growth for the Nine group.

Responsibilities:

Enabling your team

• Work with Product teams and stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues

• Act as an enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed

• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and the software engineering practices of your team

• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals

Technical Leadership

• Drive adoption of best practices and best-in class technology

• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions

Drive high performance

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members

• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals

• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed

• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

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• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

• Proven leadership in technical teams and people management 

• Extensive proven experience in web and software development

• Strong technical knowledge and hands-on development capability in relevant technologies. (e.g. Go, JavaScript, NodeJS, GraphQL, Cloud infrastructure or others as required by the squad)

• Experience running a team responsible for high availability, high volume digital products

• Proven skills creating a high performing team environment

• Managing yourself and your team in a fast changing environment with competing priorities

• A strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologies

• Excellent communication skills

How we work

At Nine, our flexible work options vary by role and team. Depending on the position, this may include flexible hours, hybrid work, or part-time arrangements. We welcome discussing your flexibility needs during the hiring process - just ask the Talent Acquisition team. 

Our employee benefits include:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers.
• Access to 'Employee Exclusives' program - a way of getting closer to our incredible brands, offering unique experiences, behind-the-scenes access, and awesome perks.
• Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads.
• Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription.

More info at Nine Careers.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, genders, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures as we recognise the importance and value of diverse perspectives. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please advise us when you apply.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.