Senior Software Engineer

What you’ll do

As the Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a passionate engineering squad focused on building products that delivery 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  

What we are looking for?

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 with .NET 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 preferrable 
• 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 

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.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.