Development Manager

About us: 

Making a meaningful difference with mission-critical software that empowers communities to thrive.

ReadyTech is more than just a one-trick pony playing in one market with one product, or one customer. We re-imagine, design, develop and deliver technology to solve our customer’s diverse problems – supporting multiple businesses across a variety of markets to be ready for anything. 

We’re an ASX-listed company which means we are stable, have a strong track record of sustainable growth and have a significant number of long-term customers. So, what does this mean for you? It means we can offer you an experience that will push you to be your best, provide career-building challenges, and that will offer you numerous growth opportunities that can’t be found in any other company.

It’s an inclusive environment where there is no place for politics, where we get our heads together to solve the problems that really matter to our customers, and where we always stay focused on our north star – the communities we serve, and society at large.

The key accountabilities of the role:

• To deliver quality software projects on time.
• To manage a team of developers to deliver innovative and robust new business solutions for clients.
• To design and construct business solution that are simple to use, effective in addressing business needs and innovative in the delivery of an outcome to clients
• Work with Head of Technology to build and monitor a software development framework to manage project delivery and quality within service level agreements

The key responsibilities of the role:

• Lead, mentor and manage developers.
• Architect, document design and prototype .NET technical solutions
• Plan, execute and deliver detailed technical implementation plan on time, on budget with good quality outcomes
• Set and control development standards and procedures
• Track, review and monitor development team activity
• Deliver project results
• Oversee product releases through test and production environments
• Control and govern quality outcomes
• Drive and lead technical, architectural design and development of new systems

The key requirements for the role:

Skills

• Demonstrated capacity to manage information security in an agile development environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow engineering teams
• Strong analytical skills plus excellent written, oral communication and presentations skills
• Demonstrated orientation towards using initiative, being proactive and accountable.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Ability to work flexible hours.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise competing requirements and resolve conflicts.
• Ability to set and meet deadlines and an ability to perform under pressure.

Knowledge

• Experience with Agile software development utilising the Kanban or Scrum methodology.
• Tertiary qualification at a degree level in Information Technology.
• Hands on experience with C#/.NET, SQL Server, React, REST API
• SQL Server Database Administration experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes environments
• Exposure to system performance and capacity planning, platform upgrades, root cause analysis and application change management processes.
• Exposure to problem analysis and complex IT solutions.
• Exposure to ISO27001

Experience

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience as a Senior Developer
• Minimum 2 years’ Team Leadership Experience
• Minimum 3 years .NET development experience building highly available web applications using C#, ASP.NET, Web Services, JavaScript

Why you should become a ReadyTecher: 

• A day off for your birthday- hip hip hooray!
• Additional 4 days of leave each year
• ReadyTecher Awards each quarter with the chance to win flights and accommodation to Hamilton Island
• Hybrid work, with in-house baristas in Australia via the Ready Beans team
• Access to Sonder- a technology-driven platform supported by safety, medical and mental health experts - available 24/7
• Paid parental leave
• Additional paid leave for miscarriage, endometriosis and menopause
• Volunteer leave
• Flu vaccinations
• And plenty of ReadyTech merch drops along the way!

ReadyTech is committed to seeing things through each other's eyes. We invest deeply in relationships by offering positivity, fairness and empathy in every interaction and love that everyone is different. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates our diversity of race, beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, age, disability status, marital status and more - so that every single one of us can feel like we belong.

As part of our commitment to ensuring a safe and secure working environment for all employees and in compliance with Australian regulations, please note that if selected for this role, you will be required to complete a comprehensive police check and an Australian working rights check. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding these requirements, please feel free to contact us.

So, if you are ready for anything, please apply today. Please note that if your application is progressed to the next stage, we will send you some testing to complete as part of your application as we have found this helps us to quickly identify potential ReadyTechers!