About Us
Founded within the Woolworths group, Wpay has unparalleled expertise in customer-led payment experiences for businesses across Australia and New Zealand. We’re ready to help businesses move beyond payments by transforming transactions into rich payment experiences. With an unrivalled understanding of people and the way they pay, we simplify operations and innovative payment offerings. Keeping businesses safe from fraud, improving customer satisfaction, and enabling growth.
Wpay is Australia’s largest non-bank payments provider, processing >1.2Bn transactions and >$50bn in volumes, servicing >30m customers in-store and >19m customers online - every week! You’ll be working with Australia’s largest retail operations - both online and in-store, along with pushing the innovation boundaries with marketplaces and the subscription and gig economy businesses.
About Wpay
Wpay is a retail payments platform designed for retailers. Our end to end solution will deliver seamless payments, administrative efficiencies and deeper customer engagement and understanding for businesses.
We’re building beyond payments - offering retail merchants a comprehensive, customisable, one-stop digital platform for creating and managing commerce experiences to help business flow.
We’re backed by Australia’s largest retail group - and with over 1.3 billion transactions processed every year, we’re Australia’s largest non-bank payments platform. The platform is built to evolve and continually deliver richer retail experiences.
We’re always looking for committed, talented people who want to help create better experiences for businesses and customers alike. Together we can create Australia's leading, buying, selling, saving and giving experiences every day.
About the role
This is one of the key roles in the Wpay Engineering space who is directly reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager. You must be passionate about cloud and platform architecture design, preparation, cost, risk estimation, and more importantly development leadership and coaching on teams technical capability.
You will also work as an interface between cross functional teams including Engineers, Product Managers, Operations and Support. A maturity level of mixed technical and leadership skills are required.
- Design and operate high quality, scalable and performant cloud platforms
- Provide team leadership to a small squad of platform engineers
- Coordinate with other Tech Leads and the architecture team on best practice and ensure all squads are aligned to Wpay standards and collaborate across various teams, while mentoring and coaching other engineers.
- Deep dive into technical blockers including hands-on contribution as necessary. Strong operational focus, will actively jump into help recover systems as needed.
- Investigate and recommend improvement opportunities to drive continuous improvement and ensure Woolworths remains innovative and up to date with market-leading technologies and industry trends.
- Maintains high standards with relation to compliance (including PII, PCI), security, and risk, and guides the technical teams accordingly.
About you
- You bring with you a background in Platform Engineering whilst having recent experience leading agile teams and individuals.
- Strong experience delivering functional/non-function technical solutions and are able to build solid relationships and have a clear and concise communication style.
- Excellent experience with Azure Cloud, Kubernetes and related technologies using the principles of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Exposure and understanding of:
- Database technologies, particularly document based systems (MongoDB)
- Azure DevOps & GitHub
- Cloud monitoring tools include Prometheus, Grafana, Appinsight and Dynatrace etc.
- Google Cloud data tooling (BigQuery)
- Data engineering patterns, including NRT time, synchronous data integration, event messaging, pub/sub and Kafka models, and legacy patterns such as SFTP.
- Automation and software tooling, software management and branching, dev environments etc.
- Strong understanding of secure and compliant platforms.
Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group
We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’
Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au.
