Senior Software Engineer

A global, ASX listed, blue-chip client base - including many of the Fortune 500 and some of the world's largest banks, airlines and telecommunications companies, rely on IR to provide performance and experience management solutions for their mission-critical systems and infrastructure.

Our purpose is to create great when it matters most.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable code, with built-in high performance, quality and security. Senior Software Engineers may take on Subject Matter Expert responsibilities, and act as a team leader for more junior engineers.

Job Description

The key responsibilities of the role include -

• Work on Epics relating to the current product release
• Work closely with your Development Manager in resolving high priority tickets and critical production issues with efficiency and perseverance.
• Participate in and host daily stand-ups to effectively convey your value added to the product and future ideas
• Organize planning sessions using JIRA to create user stories to complete the epic
• Create an architecture (or utilise the existing product) to achieve the acceptance criteria from Product Managers
• Discuss, negotiate and agree to project requirements with your Product Manager and Development Manager for each project
• Create Automated System-level Tests on epic completion for maximum product coverage
• Organize backlog grooming and sprint retrospectives with the team to increase velocity every sprint
• Mentor and advise other team members on possible implementations and potential issues arising ie Transfers of Information (TOIs)
• Working with support on existing products to ensure better customer satisfaction and a better quality product
• Develop unit tests following Test Driven Development (TDD) principles
• Support the development of team members by coaching and mentoring
• Act as a key contact point for internal stakeholders
• Provide security solutions based on risk assessment.
• Provide the best technology security practices for the company.
• Ensuring that requirements in IT Audit, Standard, Policy, Compliance and Risk controls are met.

Desired Skills and Experience

The job requirements and qualifications required for the role include -

• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks
• Ability to benchmark systems, analyse system bottlenecks, and propose solutions to eliminate them.
• Ability to clearly articulate pros and cons of various technologies and platforms.
• Ability to perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use this in designing solutions.
• Familiar with Agile processes and standard coding practices (e.G. unit testing)

Cloud:

• Cloud services knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • S3
  • EC2
  • Kinesis
  • API Gateway
  • Cloudformation (+ serverless)
• Front-end:
  
  • Familiarity with Node.Js, React, State management libraries (such as Redux), styled-components, UI toolkits (such as antd), GraphQL, ramda/lodash, eslint, highcharts
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines (e.G. Jenkins)
• Comfortable using SCM tools (i.E. git)
• Comfortable with unit testing
• Back-end:
  jest, mocha (with sinon/chai)
  

On Prem:

• Scripting:
  Perl, Batch, Shell, Python
• Building solutions knowledge:
  CMake, Cake, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse
• Operating system knowledge:
  Windows, Linux (CentOS/RHEL), AIX, Solaris, NonStop
• Repository knowledge:
  Git, SVN
• CI/CD Knowledge:
  Jenkins, TeamCity

While experience in the above areas will be highly considered, it's important to note they will be secondary to the person with the right determination, attitude and IR's compatibility. Our culture and core behaviours are very important to us.