Role Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership and Solution Architecture
- Define and guide system architecture for CMS and digital menu board solutions to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Drive technology decisions across front-end and back-end stacks, particularly leveraging TypeScript and cloud-based frameworks.
- Partner with product and UX teams to ensure technical feasibility and solution alignment with customer needs.
- End-to-End Project Delivery
- Lead the design, build, testing, and deployment of complex, customer-facing features across the full stack.
- Ensure seamless integration of front-end interfaces, backend APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate with DevOps to ensure robust CI/CD pipelines and secure, automated deployments.
- Quality, Standards, and Technical Governance
- Establish and uphold engineering standards for code quality, performance, and security.
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews and mentor engineers on software design principles and OOP best practices.
- Identify and remediate technical debt, ensuring architectural decisions support long-term scalability.
- Mentorship and Team Development
- Provide guidance, feedback, and technical coaching to engineers.
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support onboarding of new team members and documentation of technical knowledge.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies or frameworks that enhance solution capabilities.
- Lead technical proof-of-concepts (POCs) or innovation sprints to explore and validate new ideas.
- Drive automation and optimization initiatives to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
Role Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience in full stack engineering
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience and/or certifications).
- Experience with CMS development and digital signage solutions. (preferred)
- Proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering enterprise-level projects. (preferred)
- Advanced understanding of security best practices in cloud environments. (preferred)
- Technical Skills:
- Extensive expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, Node and object-oriented programming.
- Advanced backend development skills with frameworks like NestJS and Express.
- Proficient in frontend frameworks: React.
- Strong architectural design skills and experience implementing scalable systems.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and DevOps practices.
- Strategic Technical Leadership – Leads by example, guiding teams with deep technical insight and strategic vision.
- Innovation Mindset – Proactively introduces and implements innovative solutions to complex problems.
- High Accountability – Owns outcomes and drives projects to successful, high quality, outcomes.
- Effective Communication – Articulates complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Adaptability – Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments with rapidly changing business needs.
Top Skills
What We Do
Coates Group is a growing global technology and digital merchandising solutions provider creating immersive experiences for some of the world's leading brands and their customers.
We are focused on creating dynamic, personalised and engaging experiences powered by our range of digital hardware and proprietary content management system. If you’ve ordered in-store or in the Drive-Thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions!
We work across 50+ global markets with our headquarters located in Sydney, Australia and other offices in Japan, India, China, the Middle East, Canada, Europe and the United States.
Our people who we proudly call our “Crew” are at the heart of everything that we do. So, it is our commitment to empower and develop the people that set us apart. This is done by implementing new policies that our people care about like an annual market competitive bonus program, opportunities for growth and prioritisation for learning and development that includes kick-starting our new wellbeing program called Thrive.
The cornerstone of Thrive is our flexible work approach, including a suite of flexible work options because we are believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also equips our crew with wellness tools and dedicated time to prioritise our health with Yoga and Meditation programs as well as a Global Wellness Day off to enjoy and recharge plus a Give Back Day for the opportunity to make an impact on the community.
Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).
We are one global crew with diverse perspectives that make us stronger. We are curious, charismatic and authentic. And together, we make our purpose become a reality, to create immersive brand experiences for everyone
