Software Engineer

• Company Afterpay
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

Job Description

As a Software Engineer in the Merchant Domain you’ll be responsible for ensuring Merchants also get the Afterpay experienceᵀᴹ. The team’s focus is onboarding new merchants with a suite of ecommerce integrations, providing tools post onboarding and finally statements for transaction visibility.

This is a perfect opportunity for a Software Engineer that enjoys working in a global team and with product, creating new experiences for major retailers and businesses alike!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Scope, build and maintain/enhance systems & services using Kotlin, Java and related open source technologies
• Participate in critical technical design and product discussions
• Own features and functions throughout their lifecycle from inception, rollout, launch, scale and iteration
• Practice eXtreme Programming (XP) engineering techniques of Software Development
• Fostering the use of agile practices for Software Delivery
• Work in cross-functional Product teams responsible for the discovery, delivery and validation of product features via microservices, APIs, web-apps
• Work with the software engineering team following our software development principles, guided by the Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers.
• Peer review design decisions, code, automated tests and documentation
• Participate in the ongoing design and architecture of our evolving core platforms and services

Qualifications

• A demonstrable track record of building highly scalable, performant and resilient systems/software
• Proven experience in preferably Kotlin, Java and JavaScript (React/Redux)
• Experience mentoring & coaching junior developers within teams
• Strong understanding of Full stack engineering in a complex development environment
• Solid understanding of how to build testable, decoupled, maintainable code and other engineering best practices such as XP techniques (TDD, pair-programming, CI, etc)
• Experience working within an agile, cloud-based environment, we use AWS
• Some working knowledge of backend technologies including but not limited to: Dropwizard, Spring/Guice, ORM/Hibernate, SQL and relational databases
• Understanding of integration technologies: microservices, RESTful APIs, gRPC, JSON/XML Structured Logging
• Experience with version control, preferably Git
• Uses of Serverless technologies will be a bonus
• The ability to build scalable and maintainable software-as-a-service applications using modern JVM languages
• Willingness to learn and apply new methodologies and techniques as required
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Great communication skills, able to discuss engineering issues and trade-offs without hesitation.