Software Engineer

**Who we are**: What is the structure and culture of the team like?**:
VMware Tanzu Labs (formerly Pivotal Labs) is a leading software consultancy founded in Silicon Valley in 1989. We have over 30 years experience working with over half of Fortune 500 companies to become leaders in the digital economy.

The South Asia App Services team is composed of Product Managers, Product Designers, and Software Engineers. We are based in Singapore, but also collaborate a lot with other offices in the Asia Pacific region, including Tokyo and Sydney.

We partner with organisations to build and modernise digital products, leveraging Lean Product Management, User Centred Design, and Extreme Programming practices. We are hungry to learn, love sharing what we know, and we are supported by active communities of practice. We strive for diverse teams because we know they are the most successful. We like to keep things simple, do what works, and treat each other with respect and kindness.

Our principles are:

- Empower Teams
- Start Simple
- Embrace Change
- Deliver Early and Often
- Improve Continuously
- Give Back

**The Elevator Pitch**: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**:
Our Software Engineers embrace Extreme Programming (XP) as a way to go fast forever and deliver remarkable results. Our product managers and product designers work side-by-side with our engineers in small, empowered, autonomous teams, using Lean and User-Centred Design as complementary product development practices. We measure success by making our customers more productive, as software developers, product managers, and product designers. We enable our customers to build high quality products and own their modernization journey.

**The Work**: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?**:
This is a consulting role that requires you to be able to work collaboratively with clients and colleagues on cross-functional product teams. You'll need strong communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility, and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup, agile, and user-centered design values, principles, and practices.

As a software engineer, you will pair daily with client software engineers, coaching them in Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies, such as pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration and delivery. You will work with a team of product managers, designers, and engineers to enable your client team to deliver and iterate on high-quality software products that deliver user and business value.

**You Will Be Responsible For**:

- Pair programming with clients and other VMware Tanzu Labs engineers to build/modernize software based on the team’s backlog
- Leading one or more teams through complex engineering efforts
- Managing risk and uncertainty while moving the team forward
- Teaching your client pairs how to do the above for themselves
- Enabling client leadership to grow their own engineering practice
- Contributing back to VMware Tanzu Lab's engineering practice through mentorship, giving talks, and experience reports

**Success in the Role**: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months that you will work toward completing?**:

- ** 1st Week**:You have a good sense of our Labs practices and shadowed some sessions to see it work in practice. You have learned about our clients, tools, techniques, and role within VMware. You’re more integrated into the wider Software Engineering practice and understand how you’re a critical part of that.
- ** 3 Months**:You’ve made amazing improvements to your engineering skills You feel more comfortable helping less experienced client engineers build, test, and deploy great software. You’ve helped our clients be effective engineers in an Extreme Programming environment. You feel capable of adapting your style to the needs of your team. You will keep your team productive and be a great communicator to executives. You paired with your manager to create goals aligned to your career and development interests. You have the support and resources at hand to go on that journey.
- ** 1st Year**:You’ve succeeded in shipping a lot of valuable software using a variety of technical stacks within different client contexts You've improved the skills and abilities of your client teammates so that they can keep building great products themselves You’ve become an active member of our diverse engineering and modernization community

**Where is this role located?**:
Like many companies, the COVID pandemic has changed how we work. We are fortunate to be capable of running a strong business in a 100% remote working environment. However, we believe that the fastest way to build authentic relationships is in person. Our role as consultants requires us to work well with new teammates on many types of engagements. We navigate large customer organisations, facilitate team buildin