Senior Software Engineer - Engagement

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership within the Engagement domain, collaborating closely with adjacent teams to deliver cohesive solutions; Actively engage in hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability; Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and best practices; Play an active role in technical discussions and propose solutions that drive team performance and contribute to team and company goals & objectives; Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes to enhance team performance and efficiency; Lead and independently own projects or components from start to finish; Share knowledge and best practices with the team, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment; Mentor peers on the team, providing guidance and constructive feedback to support their growth; Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to effectively communicate timelines, deliverables, blockers, project statuses; Actively investigate AI for automation of processes within the team

Requirements

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience; 5-8 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development; Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks; Proficient in Node.js, Rest API, Kubernetes (K8), Design Patterns, Subscriptions (WebSockets, Pub/Sub etc) and related technologies; Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts; Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams; Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to lead resolution of complex technical challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders

Nice to have

TypeScript; JavaScript; Svelte; React; NextJS; Vue

Benefits

Influence Culture and Excellence: Directly champion and drive cultural change across the organization to raise the bar for engineering excellence; Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, Svelte, Typescript, Node.js, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare; Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!); Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform; EAP access for you and your family; Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses; Give back with a paid volunteer day; Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house; Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays; In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs; Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays; Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week; Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles