Software Engineer 2

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organisation. Using your skills and experience in full-stack development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product. Most of our applications are written in a NodeJS/Typescript/React stack, but we cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience. In this role, you will focus on pulling disparate business tools into a consistent and coherent platform. As such, you will be called on to reimagine known and functional processes or user experiences into new forms to create a more seamless experience. We often work as a fast response team to groups across the organisation to provide recommendations and assistance to teams from design through delivery of new interfaces. As such, the front-end aspect of our full- stack team can't be an afterthought for someone in this role. The ability to change idioms and codebases is essential to the role's responsibilities. Our work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Full-stack application development using NodeJS/Express/React TypeScript stack - Creation, maintenance, and support of a Near-Real-Time reporting and visualisation platform from the API layer outward.
• Planning discussions, team interactions, and creating feature proposals.
• Broader platform team discussions and interactions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve, maintain, performance tune, and respond to incidents on our big data pipeline infrastructure.
• On-call rotations as an Incident Commander to help categorise and track real-time data incidents, loop in engineering resources as needed to ensure a timely resolution and support any data engineering efforts.
• Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience.
• Write code that is concise, optimised, and well-tested.
• Contribute to team discussions and planning sessions.
• Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation.
• Deliver functional and supportable product as part of an agile development team.
• Work with design and test teammates to deliver high-quality and testable features.
• Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer.
• Review teammates' code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage.

Requirements:

• Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioural attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Contribute to the successful implementation of solutions facing our platform and occasionally the broader DE& E teams.
• Contribute to the development of frameworks, environments, build systems, and tooling for our platform.
• Contribute to the platform-level support of various visualisation tools for reporting across the enterprise through APIs and embedded reporting.
• Contribute to the platform-level unification of numerous tools into a consistent and coherent application.
• Support the strategic analysis of existing technologies, future projects, and execution options.
• Contribute to the definition of project/platform architecture and its proliferation.
• Contribute to a clean-code environment utilising shared-code best practices.
• Become a core member of our team, building a platform of excellence that strives for optimised processes, maintainability, and accountability.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field with 5+ years of progressive experience in a software development(SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front-end and back-end services.
• Proficient in application development, including React in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• 5+ years of experience with full-stack application development.
• 5+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit- and front-end-test frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience building cross-functional and broadly scoped platforms.
• Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, etc. )
• Experience with development in a CI/CD/CT environment.
• Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end/visualisations.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Organised, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Being a highly motivated, self-starting individual.