Lead Software Engineer - Motors

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

At Trade Me, the Lead Software Engineer is critical to our commitment to sustainable engineering and customer-centric innovation. You'll steer technology toward adaptable solutions while nurturing your team's technical growth. Balancing hands-on technical expertise with strong interpersonal skills, you'll foster trust, collaboration, and high performance to build enduring solutions for all Trade Me Motors users.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• Draft, communicate, and execute architectural decisions focusing on scalability, sustainability, and adaptability.
• Stay hands-on, contributing to the SDLC by developing, testing, and deploying high-quality artifacts.
• Champion engineering best practices and a positive Developer Experience (DevEx) through continuous delivery.
• Partner with product managers and owners to guide large-scale changes, refactors, and feature deliveries.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers to support their career progression and skill growth.
• Define engineering guardrails and guidelines to manage delivery risks and ensure operability.
• Manage technical debt, system operability, and participate in on-call schedules and incident management.

What you will bring to our team:

• Proven engineering leadership experience guiding, inspiring, and mentoring software development teams.
• Deep hands-on coding, debugging, and architectural design expertise across complex, scalable applications.
• Hands-on experience experimenting with AI tools, and a natural curiosity to weave them into your everyday work.
• Hands-on experience with feature development, large-scale refactors, rapid prototyping, and system maintenance.
• Broad exposure to a diverse range of languages, tools, platforms, design patterns, and DevOps principles.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Decisive, action-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving, project scoping, and stakeholder coordination skills.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#Flexible work options: We support various work arrangements for this role, including part-time work, job sharing, and flexible working hours to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance. This includes a home office setup and utilities allowance.
#Invest in your family: We offer comprehensive parental leave policies to support parents.
#Dedicated 10% Learning & Development time: Enjoy 10% dedicated time for ongoing learning and skill enhancement.
#Wellness resources: We prioritize your physical and mental wellbeing, providing access to various resources.
#Strong social culture: Company-paid shared lunches, regular social events, annual awards, employee networking groups, social sports clubs and more.
#AI & Tech: We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.

Our Commitment to Diversity:
believers that diversity fuels progress. To tackle existing inequality for women in technical leadership, we will be applying le, and Trade Me will also take a broader perspective weighing up skills and experience alongside other factors such as future potential, diversity and the unique contribution you could make at Trade Me.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.