Principal Software Engineer

About us:

Southern Cross Insurance is an independent insurance agency writing home, auto, business and life policies with more than 20 carriers. We specialise in commercial insurance for contractors, trucking companies and restaurants. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

About the role:

We are replacing a colleague who is moving away. Our Search team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Hybrid: two days in the office in Sydney, the rest from home.

Main duties:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

Minimum qualifications:

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Benefits:

• Superannuation on top of salary
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible hours
• Hybrid working

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Southern Cross Insurance Pty Ltd.