Lead Software Engineer

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Remote (Australia)

Salary: $215,000 - $280,000 pa

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Fixed-term contract (12 months)

Homeowner associations hire us for accounting, vendor management and board meeting support.

Position summary:

Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. We need another Lead Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. This role is fully remote within Australia.

Responsibilities:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

What we offer:

• Flexible hours.

You must have full working rights in Australia.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Baker Real Estate Pty Ltd.