Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join OFX, a global online international payment and money management services provider, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will be part of a team building reliable code using the latest frameworks and technologies. The role involves translating application requirements into functional applications, designing, building, testing, and maintaining code, identifying and resolving issues, and enhancing application usability. This position is open to fully remote candidates within Australia or New Zealand. You will need strong knowledge of Javascript, Typescript, React, and databases, along with experience in microservices architecture and AWS. OFX offers a range of benefits including health insurance, parental leave, and a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Javascript
• Strong knowledge of Typescript or any other strongly typed language
• Strong knowledge of frontend frameworks such as React
• 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