Senior Software Engineer (12-month contract)

The organization is an all-Australian-based telco and tech business, offering a variety of solutions to residential, business, and corporate customers. We pride ourselves on our outstanding customer service and punching way above our weight in the industry.

As our Senior Software Engineer, you will put our values up in lights by delivering these activities and outcomes:

• Building end-to-end solutions across a variety of channels (including internal tools, APIs, SDKs, apps and customer-facing portals).
• Utilising industry best practices and leveraging the latest technologies where possible
• Automating business processes so our staff can focus on the really important stuff
• Engaging with stakeholders in all stages of the software development life cycle
• Solving interesting performance and architectural challenges
• Writing clean, maintainable code, following best practices and adhering to coding standards
• Working on special projects as directed by the Software Engineering Manager
• Communicating and coordinating with internal departments
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team
• Participating in sprints/iterations
• Performing code reviews
• Participating in an on-call rotation
• If you like the sound of that, here’s some other things we’d love to see…
• Bachelor of Computer Science or relevant industry experience
• 5+ years commercial software development experience
• Good knowledge of databases, including schema design & query optimisation
• Experience with creating and consuming modern APIs and SDKs
• Experience crafting and maintaining software with a test-driven approach that is maintainable and conforms to standards and software development best practices.
• A willingness to explore and experiment with new software and/or languages to provide solutions
• A strong desire to guide and support others to achieve their goals
• An understanding of the telco industry
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• The desire to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to design and implement complex software solutions
• Test Driven Design experience highly regarded
• A willingness to mentor, support and grow a team
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Ability to design and implement complex software solutions
• CI/CD experience highly regarded
• Laravel/Go/Python experience highly regarded
• Test Driven Design experience highly regarded