Senior Software Engineer

Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payments, cards and expense management services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

Purpose of your role

OFX's engineering team has a wealth of experience in finance and tech companies, from startups to global names. We obsess over understanding our user needs and the related financial fundamentals. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be joining a team that ship reliable code fast and use the latest frameworks and technologies to deliver an A+ experience.

We are open to fully remote candidates within Australia or New Zealand.

What you do

• Translate application requirements, story boards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, test and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automization
• Enhance usability of our applications (UX / UI)

Requirements

What you bring

The ideal person for this role should have:

• Strong knowledge of Javascript
• Strong knowledge of Typescript or any other strongly typed language
• Strong knowledge of frontend frameworks such as React
• Strong knowledge of document and relational databases (DynamoDB, Postgres, Opensearch)
• Skill for writing reusable libraries
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns but mostly microservices architecture
• Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous event based microservices
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
• Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
• Experience creating databases that represent and support business processes
• Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with Cloud Provider AWS (manage stacks, deployments, secrets, etc)
• A product mindset, constantly thinks about the customer and product to deliver the best possible outcomes
• Be a self starter who is motivated and driven and passionate about what they do
• Be willing to always learn and embrace new technologies and ways of solving problems

Additional experience in any of the below highly desired:

• Demonstrated experience with AWS, especially AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and API Gateway
• Design and development experience in a microservices or serverless ecosystem
• Experience collaborating directly with designers to rapidly prototype ideas
• A solid understanding of UX fundamentals
• Personal Projects / Open Source Contributions and involvement with the broader developer community