Software Engineer

What you'll do

The Software Engineer is an integral part of a cross-functional squad, responsible for design, build, test, and support of applications. As part of this role you will be responsible for designing and developing high-quality, fit-for-purpose software, consistent with Equifax's global engineering standards. This role is highly technical and requires the ability to work in and leverage an agile delivery environment to continuously deliver business value.

Equifax is an extremely data rich and technology driven place, you will be working in a multidisciplinary environment. In addition to supporting international products, we're in the middle of a major digital transformation journey and building new generation products. This is a huge transformation and an opportunity to be on the floor of something exciting, while also learning new and emerging technologies.

What experience do you need?

• 5+ years of experience as Full Stack Engineer with Java (backend - Spring MVC, SpringBoot) and Angular JS (Frontend UI) skills is mandatory.

• Cloud-native software development skills in Java strongly preferred, with a track record of learning other languages as required.

• 5+ years experience building elegant, delightful cloud-native apps with reduced cycle time. GCP preferred

• Experience in overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance

• Commercial software engineering experience, preferably in a financial services enterprise or technology product company

• Established knowledge and understanding of key software engineering principles like OOP, Inversion of Control, Design Patterns and Microservices architectures

• Detailed knowledge of modern software development tools, techniques and frameworks

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate, not only with team members at various levels but with business leaders across the organisation

• Strong stakeholder management skills to operate across a broad and complex business unit

• Proactive, self-starter, highly motivated, with a real passion for staying up to date and researching new methods of work and new technology

• Must have valid and unrestricted working right in Australia.

What could set you apart?

• Cloud Certification (GCP/AWS/Azure)

• Open-source or community project committer would be highly desirable (please share Github or similar details)

• Commercial experience with well-known Java libraries, Linux and JVM tuning.