Full Stack Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join OFX's engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building reliable and high-performing applications. You will translate application requirements into functional applications, design and build efficient code, and ensure optimal performance and responsiveness. The role involves identifying and resolving bottlenecks and bugs, maintaining code quality, and enhancing application usability. You will work with various technologies including Javascript, Typescript, React, NodeJS, and cloud platforms like AWS. The position is open to fully remote candidates within Australia or New Zealand. OFX offers a supportive and inclusive work environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Javascript
• Strong knowledge of Typescript
• Strong knowledge of React
• Strong knowledge of NodeJS
• Strong knowledge of document and relational databases (DynamoDB, Postgres, Opensearch)
• Skill for writing reusable libraries
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns but mostly microservices architecture
• Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous event based microservices
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
• Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
• Experience creating databases that represent and support business processes
• Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with Cloud Provider AWS (manage stacks, deployments, secrets, etc)
• A product mindset, constantly thinks about the customer and product to deliver the best possible outcomes
• Be a self starter who is motivated and driven and passionate about what they do
• Be willing to always learn and embrace new technologies and ways of solving problems

Responsibilities

• Translate application requirements, story boards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, test and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automization
• Enhance usability of our applications (UX / UI)

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with AWS, especially AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and API Gateway
• Design and development experience in a microservices or serverless ecosystem
• Experience collaborating directly with designers to rapidly prototype ideas
• A solid understanding of UX fundamentals
• Personal Projects / Open Source Contributions and involvement with the broader developer community

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks)
• Birthday leave
• Hybrid work model