Role overview

Senior Web Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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The role entails

  • Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
  • Design and implement well-tested and documented software
  • Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
  • Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
  • Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
  • Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
  • Deploy and operate services developed by the team
  • Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

What we are looking for in you

  • Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
  • Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
  • Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
  • Displays competency in researching new technology or approaches, and is able to tastefully and sustainably integrate changes and more modern approaches to technical projects.
  • Provides comprehensive and insightful code review on items of any size within the project
  • An eye for accessibility and performance
  • Professional written and spoken English
  • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
  • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each

Nice-to-have skills

  • Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience fostering and maintaining a talented team by defining excellence
  • REST API design, development and governance
  • Drive to deliver performance engineering and security experience

What we offer colleagues

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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StackDocker, Kubernetes, RESTPrimary skills
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