Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 1-3 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
The tech stack
We use a modern technology stack including Swift/Kotlin/C++ (mobile); React.js (front end); Go/node.js (back end); AWS/Kafka/Kubernetes (infrastructure)
The role
As a Staff or Senior Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be empowered to manage complex architectural decisions and drive change. You’ll own delivery of practical solutions to solve real-world problems for customers, with the knowledge that what you build has an immediate positive impact.
You’ll face exciting technical challenges as we scale, and be an integral part of the engineering team. High-performing teams here own their services, and you’re trusted to build and run a system that serves hundreds of thousands of users while transforming it into a system that will serve millions of users in the near future. We empower engineers to learn new skills and use technology to solve customer problems, including initiatives in IoT, machine learning, and event-driven architecture.
How you can have an impact
Be recognised as an expert in relevant technologies to the role, and have influence over the direction of the team and function. Improve others’ ability to deliver great work and drive initiatives focused on release-safety, repeatability, and improving the way we do things. Mentor colleagues, actively engage in building a culture of candid feedback, and help the engineering teams give and receive constructive feedback. We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.
The teams
In Sydney we have teams developing and supporting our SaaS platform, working on extending the functionality and longer term strategic bets, including real-time incident reporting, analytics, and IoT. Each team has a co-located manager, product manager, designer, direct access to customers, and support from specialists in quality, SRE and specific technologies. Check out some of the things we’ve been doing in our blog.
Essential Skills Depth of knowledge in a front end or back end coding language and associated libraries/frameworks Ability to own delivery of complex features, break down requirements and provide reasonable estimates Ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs Able to improve others’ ability to deliver great work Able to demonstrate SafetyCulture values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)
Desirable Skills Breadth of knowledge of a variety of platforms and approaches Working with service-oriented/microservice architectures Experience with key/value store and relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB, Postgres, MySQL) Building and running SaaS or cloud services at scale
