Software Engineer

Reporting to the Lead Development Engineer and working within an experienced and collaborative development team, you will be tasked with building performant, scalable, and sustainable backend application architecture and software.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Working with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices
  • Building technical integrations with third-party vendors
  • Supporting critical technology incidents as needed
  • Working in technology architecture, scalability, security, and performance initiatives
  • Delivering high-quality hands-on engineering work in line with the companies commercial objectives
  • Mentoring other platform engineers and team members
  • Tracking and driving to completion all of the platform focus group's deliverables
  • Working within defined project management guidelines and security best practice
  • Contributing technology inputs to the product team and roadmap discussions

Be the champion in delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company and become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 year’s industry experience with Ruby on Rails development deploying scalable Rails API & applications
  • 5+ Experienced in any Web Development fields
  • Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing and profiling web applications using NewRelic and related tools
  • Develop and maintain specs using Rspec, Jest, and e2e preferably Cypress
  • Experience in creating APIs
  • Good understanding of pair programming and in pair code reviews
  • Working proficiently in relational databases
  • Have worked in teams of 3 or more developers
  • Experience and understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI
  • Experience deploying scalable cloud solutions on AWS
  • Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Basic experience working with frontend frameworks such as Vuejs.
  • Devops skills a bonus

Your attributes:

  • Confident and autonomous
  • You write performant, scalable, efficient code
  • You take pride in your work
  • You have good (written/verbal) communication skills and contribute regularly to architectural and team discussions
  • You aren’t afraid of making and learning from mistakes
  • You share and communicate your knowledge with the team
  • TDD and BDD by default
  • Some knowledge/interest in other technologies we use, Vuejs, React native, serverless

ShiftCare’s innovative software platform helps Australia’s disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals, streamline the way they do things 🧑🏽‍⚕️📲 ✅By creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, we enable businesses to grow, while creating more time for what matters most – supporting clients, and helping them lead healthier, happier lives.Working with usWe’re a small but rapidly growing start-up that strikes the balance between work and play 🧑‍💻 ➡️ 🏄‍♂️Based at Fishburners, one of Sydney’s leading tech co-working spaces, our diverse team embraces a culture of dedication and enthusiasm.Whether you choose to work on-site with us, where you’ll rub shoulders with other start-ups, enjoy perks like complimentary coffee, beer and the occasional pizza, or remotely, at hours that suit you, you’ll soon feel like part of a team making a difference.Key Benefits: Be part of a small, rapidly growing business. Flat structure – take responsibility, be your own boss, and help us shape the direction of the business. Company laptop provided (Mac or PC) Based at Fishburners, Sydney CBD – a leading start-up community. Our valuesWe’re no cult. But we do have a set of values inspiring all who work with us.☝️ People-first - We’re a tech company, but people come first. We believe in better – enabling better quality care, and encouraging people to be at their best, by creating a fun, supportive environment to draw on their passions.🤩 Optimism - We see the good in people. Born problem-solvers, with a positive mindset, we rise to any challenge – a better way of doing things is never far away.🤝 Collaboration - Everyone has something different to offer. By recognising our own strengths, and those of others, we work together in harmony to achieve outstanding results.🤸‍♂️ Independence - We don’t believe in hierarchy. You’ll work side by side with the founders, yet have the opportunity to take responsibility for your efforts and help shape the future of the business.

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