Senior Software Engineer

Headquartered in Melbourne since 2012, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Southern Cross Systems employs 840 people across engineering hubs in Melbourne and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary

We need another Senior Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Our headquarters is in Melbourne, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings.

Responsibilities

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Why work with us

• Paid in USD
• Flexible hours

Candidates must be eligible to work in South Korea.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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