Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Zeller, a fast-growing Australian scale-up reimagining business banking and payments, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will architect and develop cloud-native applications in the AWS environment, leading a team and promoting best practices. Responsibilities include translating business requirements into technical designs, implementing and deploying applications, and maintaining mission-critical systems. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team and contribute to the company's technical architecture. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, 5+ years of experience, and expertise in various technologies and AWS services. Zeller offers competitive remuneration, a supportive work environment, excellent parental leave, a fully remote role, and numerous learning and development opportunities.

Requirements

• Have experience in web, mobile, backend, API, database development
• Have experience in leading a team of software engineers
• Be analytical and be able to work with fuzzy requirements
• Methodologically translate discussions with stakeholders, documents, own research findings into technical designs and implementation steps
• Have experience in handling a team of software engineers
• Have a build to last and go production mindset versus build as proof-of-concept
• Have a strong background in software engineering and design patterns
• Have experience in microservices and serverless architecture
• Have knowledge in architecture patterns such as; CQRS, event-sourcing
• Have experience with NestJs
• Have good knowledge in multi-threaded and socket programming
• Have an instinctive desire to maintain code quality , tidiness and zero technical debt
• Have a strong understanding of testing practices (TDD/BDD), with tools like Jest , Supertest , and Postman
• Be good with API and its design/protocol e.g. Restful, Websocket, SOAP
• Have a good understanding of Request/Response vs Async protocol
• Have familiarity with production-grade monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Be able to work with various databases to match query and storage requirements e.g. DynamoDB , SQL, DocumentDB
• Have experience in cloud native architecture
• Have an understanding of data lake and data warehousing
• Have knowledge in secured coding e.g. OWASP, XSS, CORS
• Have experience in authentication standards and platforms e.g. JWT, OAuth, Identity Federation
• Have experience in AWS Cloud environment
• Have experience in AWS Serverless architecture
• Have experience in Microservices
• Have experience in Blue Green Deployments
• Have a proven track record in developing and maintaining mission-critical high-load production systems with SLA 99.999 %
• Have a proven track record in supporting rapid and agile product deployments to different environments - dev, test, stress-testing, staging/production
• Have a minimum of a Bachelor degree in software engineering (or related)
• Have 5+ years of working experience in a technical hands on software engineering role
• Have demonstrable experiences in developing mission-critical systems

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop cloud native, highly available, robust and secure applications in the AWS environment
• Adopt and promote best practices, bleeding edge technologies and trends
• Work in a cross functional team with skill sets in full stack software engineering, devops, infrastructure, quality assurance to architect
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to own product software development, contribute and promote standards and engineering best practices, support operational activities such as; process automation, compliance activities, SLA upkeep requirements
• Translate business or product requirements into technical designs, hands-on implementation of the designs to see through its testing and deployment into various environments such as; development, stress testing, integration testing, staging and production
• Enjoy the fun of development from scratch in some application components while adhering to the company engineering standards, frameworks and best practices
• Be a collaborative engineer capable of observing and contributing to existing works by other team members
• Automate and maintain; be excited to see through your contributions into production and maintain their longevity in the mission-critical environment
• Design, develop, and deploy microservices and serverless applications using Node.js , TypeScript, and AWS
• Write unit tests using Jest -, along with Supertest and Postman as supporting tools
• Build and maintain scalable REST APIs integrated with DynamoDB , S3 , SNS/SQS , Step Functions , and Lambda
• Own CI/CD processes using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
• Use Infrastructure As a Code (IAC): Terraform, Cloudformation
• Use AWS Devops SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions
• Use ElastiCache
• Use Loading Balancing, Route53, CloudFront, ECS, ECR, Auto-Scaling
• Use S3, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB
• Use CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
• Improve observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and other monitoring tools
• Contribute to and evolve our technical architecture and engineering processes
• Participate in system design and architecture reviews

Preferred Qualifications

• Love challenging the status quo
• Have the ability to work autonomously yet collaboratively
• Be prepared to be bold yet consistent with your engineering principles
• Be logical, ethical, mature and responsible
• Be a fast learner, humble and love to share knowledge
• Be calm and exercise a positive level of stress in exceptional circumstances such as; production issues, timeline requirements
• Have experience in fintech
• Have AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• Have experience in working within a high-growth environment
• Have experience in other programming languages
• Have experience in payments
• Have exposure to Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Have experience with PCI compliant environments (PCI-DSS, etc)

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• A balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment
• Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements
• Fully remote role
• Annual get together with the team
• Endless learning and development opportunities
• Plenty of remote friendly fun and social opportunities - we love to come together as a team
• An ability to influence and shape the future of Zeller as our company scales both domestically and globally
• Being part of one of Australia’s most exciting scale-ups