
Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
- Define and drive technical vision, strategy, and architecture aligning with business objectives.
- Handle data driven events and ensure robust event handling at scale.
- Optimize existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
- Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior engineers in the team.
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
- Experience with Node.js, Docker, Cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and related technologies.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong understanding of code architecture, design principles and documentation practices.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
- Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with teams and stakeholders.
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership, come with an attitude of getting stuff done.
- Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
- Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, NATS, K8's, ArgoCD, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, Nodejs.
- Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
- Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
- EAP access for you and your family
- Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
- Give back with a paid volunteer day
- Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
- Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
- In house full-time barista's providing you your daily coffee needs
- Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
- Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week
- Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles