Senior Software Engineer

The Role

A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced member of our SEEK Group Engineering teams. A Senior Software Engineer is a fully autonomous professional, responsible for improving the technical alignment, health and engineering practices within a team.

You will develop software within product delivery/systems/platform teams, contributing to engineering quality, coaching and mentoring entry-level Software Engineers, and demonstrate passion for your craft through user centric, reliable and scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Effectively collaborate with other engineers in building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software from development to production.
• Improve system reliability, resilience, and efficiency.
• Strengthen Software Engineering best practices to ensure they are fit for purpose and aligned with Agile and secure coding standards.
• Work effectively within the team to enhance DevOps environments.
• Develop and operate scalable, high-performance software aligned with company frameworks and technology strategy.
• Write clean, well-tested, secure, and readable code while improving quality and engineering discipline.
• Contribute to team members' safety, work-life balance, well-being, onboarding, and mentoring.
• Communicate effectively and empathetically, considering customer needs in development.
• Contribute to communities of practice, seek learning opportunities, and provide regular feedback.

Requirements

Experience

• Improving how we build, deploy and maintain working quality software
• Crafting and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
• Built and operated highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions.
• Led operational support duties, including on-call support and after hours work as the need arises

Technical Skills

• Proven experience building and maintaining software written in TypeScript, Node JS & React.
• Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
• Proven understanding of highly available systems and web scale architecture with knowledge of clean architecture, clean code and domain-driven design
• Design, develop, support and maintain cloud (AWS) native applications
• Experience developing systems which efficiently use AWS services such as ECS, EKS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Event-Bridge, CloudFormation & CDK
• Experience with database technologies including MongoDB & DynamoDB
• Experience in creating and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines such as Buildkite
• Experience with integration testing
• Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
• Experience working with monitoring & observability tools such as Datadog & Splunk