As an integral member of Criteria’s Global Engineering team, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and developing solutions to application problems, ensuring a solid development framework of leading-edge technology and process is utilized in developing the Criteria product to meet business needs and vision. This will involve collaborating with the wider Research and Development (R&D) team and key stakeholders including R&D Psychology, Product and Project Managers.

Important: This role will be a resource for our general Platform development needs and with a focus on internal and external generative AI powered applications.

As SSE you will be encouraged, supported, and expected to continually enhance your skill set in new and improved technologies and to provide mentoring and guidance to more junior members of the team.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

To be successful in this role the incumbent will demonstrate the following:

Essential:

• Comfort working a portion of daily hours overlapping Pacific Standard Time (PST) and/or Australia’s AEST. Required for meetings on occasion as well.
• Excellent English-speaking skills with strong command of written English & comfort collaborating with native English speakers
• 8 years of combined experience with PHP and advanced JavaScript
• Experience in front end web development using JavaScript
• Experience creating API back-ends and connecting to web application front ends
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EC2, AWS-SDK)
• Experience working in a continuous integration/deployment environment
• Experience implementing and maintaining unit, integration, and system tests
• Attention to detail and desire to create quality documentation
• A natural curiosity and drive to learn and continually develop own skills and assist with developing the skills of less experienced members
• Diligent with superior problem-solving skills

Unique Requirements for this Position:

• Proven experience working with AI applications that drive internal efficiency or AI powered use cases in-product.
• Experience working with Generative AI APIs such as AWS Bedrock or OpenAI
• Knowledge of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) applications

Desirable:

• Experience in NodeJS and/or TypeScript development
• Experience with front end frameworks such as React
• Experience with the Serverless framework
• Experience in Linux scripting languages such as Shell or Groovy
• Fluency in multiple programming languages
• AWS Certification, e.g. AWS Developer Associate
• Side projects and/or personal development that compliments your skills in-office

The primary responsibilities of this role include:

Tech/programming

• Master tools and technologies used at Criteria
• Routinely evaluate current or emerging methodologies, technologies and frameworks for viability or improvement
• Scope, design and estimate effort of solutions ensuring architectural best practices (performance, resiliency, cost, security and operational excellence)
• Gain a detailed understanding of business requirements and convert them into robust and comprehensive system designs
• Undertake programming for applications and systems

Quality

• Contribute to and improve the automation of testing by writing unit, integration, functional, smoke, performance and security tests
• Contribute to the improvement of quality and the reduction of technical debt across code bases

Delivery

• Contribute to the implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Contribute to and improve the monitoring of system operation to detect potential problems (I.e. infrastructure, application and security)

Collaboration

• Participate in the agreed SDLC
• Contribute to and improve standards, policies and procedures to ensure operational excellence
• Maintain and update internal documentation and wikis
• Communicate project information to stakeholders through presentations, technical reports or white papers
• Communicate regular status updates (including deviations) to stakeholders

Support

• Provide technical guidance or support for the development or troubleshooting of systems.
• Mentor other team members to ensure leading practice

Other

• Comply with all internal procedures and policies of Criteria (I.e. change control, security and auditing, release, configuration, problem and incident management)
• Undertake other reasonable tasks consistent with skills, qualifications and experience, as may be required from time to time
• Proactively manage career progression