Software Engineer - Cloud

We are looking for software engineers with a strong background in Kotlin and/or Java to develop and support Cloud based applications. Someone with great collaboration skills and who thrives in an environment where the team takes precedence over the individual. Someone that embraces and aligns with our culture, ways of working and desire to build high quality products using sustainable industry standard best practices.

Job type: Full-time/Permanent  (5 days) 

Industry: technology, property, real estate 

Company type: Private, 30 employees

Technologies: Kotlin, Java 17, Springboot, Cloud Run (Google Cloud), Datastore, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Compute, Google BigQuery, Looker, Google Cloud AI, TypeScript, Angular 10, Webpack. 

Location: Sydney, Australia 

Benefits

You would get to work in a friendly, engineering centric, high trust environment that optimizes for the longer term by investing in our employees and building things the right way.
We have a blameless and egoless culture where we can constructively conflict in good faith and continually uplift one another.
We clear the path so that you can do your best work and grow as a software engineer.
You get to work with leading technologies in Cloud and Machine Learning. You get to learn from and contribute to our technology, practices and ways of working.
We have a generous ESOP package and a bright future commercially.
Flexible working hours and location. The team goes to the office most Thursdays, and many team members also come in on Tuesdays.
Great office location
Fun environment with games etc.

Task & responsibilities

Responsibilities
● You will promote a safe and sustainable working environment and work well within a team.
● You will contribute to the product and product development processes.
● You will participate in wider company discussions and decisions.
● You will take features and bug fixes from concept through to production. You will sniff out the real requirements, understand design trade-offs, deploy it to production, and monitor it with metrics.
● You will collaborate within the company and with our partners.
● You will treat our customers, partners, and colleagues with respect and compassion.
● You will periodically be rostered to be on-call (i.e. available to be paged) in case of system alerts, outages or incidents raised by the services your team owns. Typically one week in every eight and typically with no alerts to respond to.

Qualification & experience

Bachelor degree or Higher in IT 

At least two years experience in similar roll 

Desired skills
Some but not necessarily all of these should describe you. We welcome applications from candidates who feel they can contribute in other ways, too.

You are experienced using Java or Kotlin to build medium-to-large backend applications.
● You are experienced with Kotlin or you are excited and willing to learn it with us
● You are committed to staying up to date with the latest technologies and continue modernizing our tech stack
● You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, challenging environment
● You are comfortable working on small, medium and large projects both independently as well as within the context of a team with a collective ownership model.
● You are able to architect large Java/Kotlin applications to manage complexity by balancing maintainability, performance, and agility.
● You are able to research, evaluate, recommend and discuss innovative technology solutions to evolve our tech stack,
● You are able to implement new technical solutions solving complicated codebase and data model design challenges,
● You can give thoughtful code review feedback and are willing to receive the same.
● You are comfortable working through legacy code and refactoring it to be in accordance with team practices.
● You have production experience maintaining a backend codebase; you can tell us what you enjoy about working with Java/Kotlin, and what you don't