What you'll do
As the Senior Software Engineer you'll be part of a passionate engineering squad focused on building products that deliver quality solutions to our customers. Working closely with skilled colleagues in Engineering, Product and Design.
* 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
We build distributed systems using a wide range of tools and technologies. As a senior engineer you'll bring deep technical expertise and lead by example. You won't need to know every tool we use but strong experience in the following areas is essential:
* Extensive backend development ecosystems.
* Demonstrated experience with data‑intensive storage and processing frameworks (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Spark, EMR).
* Proven track record building event‑driven and distributed systems.
* Experience with caching (e.g. Redis, in‑memory) to support scale and speed.
* Solid front‑end development experience; Angular/React preferable.
* Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS) and DevOps practices such as CI/CD, containers and infrastructure as code.
* Skilled at applying appropriate engineering methods (e.g. modularisations, abstractions) that make assets tractable.
Additional Information
* 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 will 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.
Remote Work
Yes
Employment Type
Full‑time
Key Skills
Spring, .NET, C/C++, Go, React, OOP, C#, AWS, Data Structures, Software Development, Java, Distributed Systems
Experience
years
Vacancy
1
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