Senior Backend Software Engineer

As our Senior Software Development Engineer

• End-to-end (Fullstack) development for new and current cloud-based applications, for both web and mobile use
• Work on the technology roadmap with Product Owners, designing solutions with your squad, and new feature development, through to production, improving/optimizing and maintenance
• Debug and perform root cause analysis for application issues
• Perform tests and quality checks on your code - you own the quality and security of the code you create
• Take initiative in recommending improvements to the development process
• Proactively identify application pain points and suggest mitigation strategies
• Perform peer reviews of code changes
• Maintain documentation and help articles for new/updated features
• Provide training sessions for the support team for new features
• Work closely with business stakeholders within an agile environment
• Mentoring junior members of the squad

To be successful in joining Employment Hero, you’ll have:

• Extensive experience as a Senior Software Development Engineer, particularly for a cloud-based SaaS
• Experience in at least one Object-oriented programming (OOP) scripting language, such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Scala or other scripting language
• Experience with Typescript, Javascript and JS based frameworks like React (For Full-stack candidates)
• Experience in developing software, using microservices or SOA architecture for deployment on public clouds, preferably AWS
• Good understanding of database concepts and experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience using Agile methodologies and working with Product teams
• Quality coding practices, including test-driven development, unit testing and secure coding awareness