Senior Software Engineer

carsales.com Ltd. • CONTRACTOR • Remote (AU) • 3d ago

Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

“Are you ready to be a big part of something big?”

Autonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. We bring the whole team together for planned collaboration, communication, and connection events 2-3 times per year.

A career in Technology, Product and Information will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our Dealer Tribe. The Trade Tribe, In a nut shell, focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to manage their inventory and prospects. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise their online customer interaction and sale funnels – See our AutoGate - Automotive retail software from Carsales.com Ltd. From integrations and billing to user management, promoting listings, appraisal solutions and authorizations, the tribe are responsible for a high availability, low latency platform built for client success.

All of our teams use a variation of C#, .NET core, ASP.NET MVC, Microservices and AWS. And a variation of angular or react – depending on the team.

What’s on offer

Autonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
Support of a highly engaged, high-performing team. We have incredible talent in carsales that you will learn from.
22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
Regular Hackathons, endless learning and development opportunities, and a range of activities that will help support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

Job Description

What you’ll do

This is a 12-month fixed term contract

Using your expertise in modern agile practices, you’ll contribute to planning, building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale, automating where possible.
Be involved in all aspects of software engineering practices including breaking down work, code review, testing, source control, build processes.
Understand and share expertise in mentoring and coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained.
Develop and support solutions that deliver enhanced levels of automation and auto-remediation across our systems. Automation will be a key focus to all solutions implemented.
Demonstrate understanding, motivations and expertise in collaborating and developing mutual respect and trust with product managers, engineers, researchers and designers.
Create and enhance team culture, by sharing your knowledge and ideas, giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Qualifications

What we are looking for?

A Senior full stack engineer with strong frontend (Angular) and Backend (.Net focused) experience with exposure to Cloud (AWS or Azure).
Extensive working experience with C#, .NET core, Angular JS, Microservices, AWS.
Experience building event-based systems using queue systems i.e. RabbitMQ.
Sound knowledge and experience on SQL, data storage, query optimization in SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Dynamo DB.
A passion for continuous improvement and implementing best practices in engineering.
Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about...

carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.