What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Backend position at Rest?
Company Description
Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders
Job Description
- Can be based in Sydney or Melbourne
- Join a leading industy fund
About Us
Awarded as an ESG and Responsible Investment Leader, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds; supporting more than 280,000 employers and around 1.95 million members, we have nearly $71 billion of funds under management.
Our ambition is to create super our members love. This is our purpose; it is why Rest exists. To achieve this ambition our mission is clear: make super simple!
At the heart of everything we do at Rest are our values and behaviours, they represent how we’ll be successful in this pursuit. We want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit! To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.
About the Job
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Create scalable, secure and resilient software that deliver to business requirements
- Design and implement RESTful APIs
- Design and implement AWS serverless software components based on micro-services patterns
- Deliver high quality solutions using TDD approaches
- Enable low-risk, high-quality changes to solutions through CICD automation
- Work closely with product owners and technical leads to plan delivery of solutions
- Collaborate within agile teams and participate in team planning, estimation, reviews, stand-ups and retrospectives
- Design and embed security into software solutions
- Engineer reliability, manageability and monitoring into solutions
- Follow and evolve Rest software engineering standards and best practices
- Keep abreast of new approaches, technologies and best practices in engineering and AWS
Qualifications
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3 years of designing and building RESTful APIs
- Minimum 3 years experience with NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Git
- Minimum 2 years experience delivering cloud-native (AWS) solutions, ideally serverless
- Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation (or related tools, ideally CDK)
- Hands on experience with CICD tools and automation (e.g. Git, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline or similar)
- Strong understanding of QA techniques like code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, TDD
- Experience building consumer facing solutions using micro-services patterns
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis
- Experience delivering within Agile teams and understanding of Agile values
- Desirable AWS experience – StepFunctions, EventBridge, DynamoDB and RDS, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, VPC, EC2, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
Additional Information
Benefits
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Hybrid working – Work to suit your lifestyle
- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops)
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)
If you share our values, want to help make a difference for our members and be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now
Rest is committed to creating a flexible hybrid work environment and we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where people feel welcome and inspired to work at their best.
We value differences in people and actively seek a wide range of diverse employees. We are passionate about having a workplace that is inclusive of our differences in gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, background, geographical/rural/remote location, disrupted work history due to career or other breaks or abilities, so we can all bring the best of ourselves to work.
Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.
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