Who we are
Flip sits at the heart of the logistics ecosystem, enabling senders and carriers to operate, disrupt and grow in powerful and effective ways.
Flip is a medium sized company which is profitable, growing, and harnesses the power of product, engineering and customer-centric design to build high quality, elegant and valuable solutions that our customers love to use.
The environment is informal but technically very mature with a consistent focus on creating a workspace which is free from the typical bottlenecks that impede software engineers and designers from enjoying their work.
Flip is the Product and Engineering company within the FMH Group of companies, and is part of the FMH Group Tech Org.
We work flexibly with 3 days a week remote and 2 days working together in our CBD office.What is a Geek for Geek?
Some companies have Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps people, engineering uplift teams, and so forth. At Flip we have Geeks for Geeks (G4G). These folks are talented engineers, who wander around among our engineering teams to help improve security, uplift quality, kaizen how we build things, how we deploy them, and how we monitor and measure our systems and more.
From time to time our G4Gs join a team to help deliver a new outcome - you get your hands dirty and are not just an "architect" or "internal consultant" drawing pictures of things for others to build.
What does this role require?
You will need a real commitment to working collaboratively with customers, product people, and software engineers to coach and deliver well engineered solutions that you are proud of, which are a joy to inherit, maintain and extend.
This role requires strong engineering skills, the discipline to think critically and independently, with a willingness to engage in new ideas and unfamiliar technical challenges.
You are an excellent coach to other engineers, and are constantly delivering kaizen across multiple tech stacks, teams, and business units.
You will also need to be able to discuss system and software design reasoning with an open mind, based on customer and product considerations.
You will require a very keen ability to identify the right problems to help solve, and to be self managed and highly reliable.
You work hard, but you rest easy. You help others do the same.
Who will I be working with?
You will be working with a range of Software and Infrastructure Engineers across several systems and business units.
You will find the conversations you have are underpinned by varying levels of technical knowledge, but always with a sense of curiosity and a satisfaction of learning and achieving ever increasing levels of engineering excellence.
You will work with teams of engineers in Melbourne, Albury, and Sydney across a group of companies owned by the FMH Group.
Can you tell me about the leadership?
Leadership largely resides in existing Developers and Designers.
You will also find a very experienced technical CEO that facilitates this mindset and works on an equal footing with everyone, although naturally, with a commercial aspect to their role.
Company leadership listens closely and acts on the sentiment of both customers and technology whilst looking after business direction and commercial success.
How are things organised?
You will be working with around 25 Engineers who are working across several different pieces of software in integration, infrastructure and software engineering. Each team in each of the business units will have different practice and approaches, so you will need to be flexible and agile of mind.
Who Makes Technical Decisions?
Developers do this together. You’re empowered not only to step up to lead, but to also step up to follow: You won’t be forced to accept things the way they are, but you will need the insight and maturity to determine when best to champion ideas, or when to disagree and commit with the team.
Why would I apply?
- You might be looking for a mature and respectful environment with a high level of technical competence that is self organising.
- You might be after an uncomplicated and transparent hiring process. Three technical conversations. There will be technical discussions where hopefully you will feel challenged yet supported.
- You might be after a flexible work environment. Whilst this is not a remote role, you might enjoy a day or three working from home each week. Or you may not be a morning person. No stress.
- Generous salary.
Why might I not apply?
- You might prefer an environment where you get to make solo decisions. If so then this role will probably not be a good fit. You will need a creative, tenacious and collaborative approach to creating solutions and be able to comfortably communicate your thoughts whilst listening to those you work with.
- You might be looking for a more traditional “lead” role with direct reports under you. To apply for this role you will need to be currently residing in Melbourne and have permanent Australian residency status.
No agency canvassing.
Requirements
What is the technology and what processes are used?
Hiring is not made purely on the basis of specific languages and tooling but as a guide the following skills would be useful:
- Back end development in .NET/.NET Core with C# or other CLR languages
- Azure and AWS based Cloud experience
- Some of the teams have some on premise deployments, also mainly Microsoft based.
- A good understanding of networking, operating systems, and infrastructure.
- Experience with building and maintaining IaaC with CI/CD
- We try to follow lean principles more than Agile™
- Transparent, honest, and blameless communication
Benefits
Flexible work arrangements.
$1,000 per annum to spend on professional development and/or ergonomics.
Top Skills
Flip (flip.com) Melbourne, Victoria, AUS Office
Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, 3000
