About the role

Engineering Lead at Auror guiding the engineering team to reduce crime through impactful software solutions. Collaborating for high performance and technical excellence in a rapidly growing organization.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering team by creating clarity and distributing authority, not just delegating tasks. You will mentor engineers by asking the right questions rather than simply providing answers.
Drive technical excellence in a core domain by establishing clear intent, articulating the "why" behind decisions, and shifting control to where context lives within the team.
Balance hands on development with strategic leadership, diving into code when needed while empowering your team to own significant technical decisions and delivery.
Architect the evolution of our critical entry point systems toward a service-oriented architecture, ensuring we can scale to support our growth trajectory while enhancing the user experience.
Leverage AI tools strategically to amplify your team's capabilities, integrating GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude to accelerate development without sacrificing quality.
Champion engineering practices that foster both deliberate action and innovation, this might include things like having thoughtful testing strategies, efficient code reviews, and comprehensive documentation that allow us to scale.
Collaborate with product leadership to ensure technical decisions amplify business impact, particularly in this highly impactful area of the product.

Proven technical expertise: Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, C# .NET Core, and cloud-native architectures, coupled with the ability to understand technical decisions in the context of business value
Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing performance, and cultivating a culture of accountability and excellence.
Communication skills: The ability to distill complex technical concepts for a variety of audiences, including non technical stakeholders.
Passion for integrating AI: Experience or interest in leveraging AI tools and LLMs as force multipliers for your team—not just following trends, but thoughtfully applying these technologies to enhance engineering practices, streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
Big picture thinking: A strategic mindset that considers the broader business impact of engineering decisions, including scalability, performance, maintainability, and user experience when guiding architectural discussions.
Prioritisation and decision-making: Skill in helping teams navigate trade-offs between immediate value and long-term technical health, breaking complex initiatives into meaningful, shippable increments.
Passion for product quality: A strong understanding that technical excellence manifests as reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity, particularly crucial in our context of crime prevention and building safer communities.

Competitive salary Range: Depending on level of experience of PL3 ($145,000 - $175,000)
Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
Health Care Plan: In partnership with Nib, Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan.
Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.