Senior Engineer Software
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineers are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business
Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades.
They also work closely with DevOps, DBAs and Systems Engineers to make deployments easier to improve team velocity and overall quality of delivery. They design, develop and contribute to some of the most important functionality happening in the product category, and also mentor, coach and empower technical team members while still taking a very active role in developing solutions.
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Who you are
Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, devops, virtualization & network.
· Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience
· An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process
· Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
· Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
· Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
· Excited to work on cutting-edge technology
During the first Six months, you will:
· Understand customer needs and business goals.
· Often act as a technical lead for features or epics and complete features or epics where the approach is loosely defined and requires technical & design discovery prior to implementation
· Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery
· Actively mentor/coach less-experienced team members
· Ensure code is flexible, reusable, extensible performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews
· Decompose outcomes into solutions composed of multiple software components interacting with each other
· Understand and consider technical dependencies
· Provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the org
· Work within the scope of a team and participate in driving cross-team collaboration
· Build something that you are proud of
· Learn something that you are excited about
· Do the best work of your career so far
· Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work
· Exercise creativity and solve cool problems
· Demonstrate passion for writing quality software
· Contribute to a shared code base
· Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation
· Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others
· Build relationships and communicate with various types and levels of stakeholders across the organization
· Analyze and spearhead improvements to the systems and software that are important to your team
· Manage risks, escalate priorities and help to resolve issues that could impact production quality
Required Experience:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in mobile front-end development, with strong proficiency in client-side technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and asynchronous data fetching
- Strong understanding of mobile UX best practices and responsive design principles.
- Experience building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
- Ability to translate designs and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to design and ship new features.
- Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, React, Angular, and CSS.
- Experience with optimising hybrid apps for performance, ensuring they load fast and run smoothly on mobile devices
- Experience with unit and integration test automation; exposure to Jest, Cypress, or Playwright is a plus.
- Adaptable, self-motivated, and committed to delivering high-quality work.
- Eager to learn, stay current with new technologies, and continuously improve development practices.
- Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in an Agile team environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a proactive attitude toward sharing ideas and seeking feedback.
- Ability to mentor and coach less-experienced team members.
Nice to Have
- Background in building and supporting mobile-first front-end apps using Angular, React, Ionic, or similar cross-platform frameworks.
- Familiarity with Storybook to streamline component development and integrate smoothly with React, Angular, or Ionic for enhanced UI collaboration.
- A history of working on side/hobby projects and contributing to open source projects in Ionic, Angular, or React is a huge plus.
- Solid understanding of modern API standards and concepts
- Demonstrated experience with CI/CD and APM tools such as Datadog, TeamCity, Octopus, or similar.
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation and handling production issues.
- Understanding of React and its ecosystem (e.g., React Router, React Hooks, Redux/Context API for state management).
- Experience with hybrid app development in SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose and React Native is advantage
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