Whispir Hiring for Senior Full Stack Engineer Job at New South Wales, Australia Full Time

A bit about Whispir
Whispir is a cloud software and communications platform that seeks to help organisations communicate like people. Our platform enables our customers to build powerful communications workflows and automate interactions between systems, business, devices and people – with no coding required.
The outcomes are powerful – people everywhere can have access to the right information at the right time so that they can make informed decisions, take action, engage and communicate with each other.
Organisations can finally start to behave how they have always wanted to – they can engage with people the way people do… in a timely, personal and contextually sensitive way with actionable, useful insights that promote richer and deeper engagement.
We know this because leading organisations use Whispir’s technology locally and globally every day for this reason. Whispir becomes their competitive advantage as they streamline their operations, improve their resilience and bring innovative new services to market quickly. We also see first-hand the capacity of these innovative solutions to assist saving lives and materially improve community outcomes.
About You
Do you have a passion for building solutions that make a positive difference? We are looking for Senior Full Stack Engineers who are as excited about working in technology as we are.
We’re looking for people who have:

• Very good knowledge of software design and architecture
• Ability to explain, discuss and document complex technical concepts
• Ability to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Solid experience with CI/CD
• Some experience with Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform)
• Some experience with AWS and Serverless Architectures
• Some experience with driving for technical excellence and improvements
• Extensive experience working in agile teams
• Experience with coaching and mentoring other developers
• Knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript

The Role
As Senior Full Stack Engineer in Whispir you will be working in one of our Agile development teams:

• Contribute to work breakdown, design, evaluation, planning and estimating product features
• Contribute to continuous improvement of practices and solutions
• Be an advocate for best practices and adoption of new technologies
• Support the other members of the team on achieving the teams goals
• Take on challenging and complex coding tasks
• Contribute to all agile cadences of the team such as planning sessions and retrospectives
• Work within your development plan to build and extend your technical and non-technical skills
• Provide after-hours support as part of our application teams weekly support roster when required

Within these responsibilities, the three promises for the Senior Full Stack Engineer role are:

• Delivery of high quality code that solves complex problems and/or sets the framework for further development.
• All tasks for the team are well-defined and correspond with a well-designed solution architecture.
• Junior members of the team are supported in their every day work and further development.

The Tech
We have a burgeoning Javascript/Typescript codebase for our newer software – both on the frontend (React) and our backend (Node).
You will know at least one of these ecosystems and one or two others to a deep level. You should be familiar with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, EKS, MSK, RDS, Lambda. Experience with automation tools (such as terraform, cloudformation) and CI/CD processes is a must.
Did you know? Research shows that while men apply to jobs when the meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other under-represented people only apply if they feel they check every single box? So, even if you don’t feel you hit every point above, we still encourage you to apply.
Our Values
Product Engineering at Whispir is committed to building the best customer experiences. We define, together, clear goals and boundaries for your team, so that you can become more effective and efficient. We support you to make decisions quickly and keep moving forwards. We understand we don’t get everything right, but we measure, error-correct, and evolve through incremental improvements. We want to enable autonomy and trust in (and between) our teams – you are the expert! We measure our impact, so we can understand how much value we’re adding.
We value collaboration over competition and compassion over judgement. We believe that good culture requires good leadership and for this position we are looking for leaders who live our values. We should enjoy coming to work every day and extend that opportunity to our coworkers.
The Whispir platform touches the lives of millions of people every day. We cover a wide range of use cases from large-scale crises communication to helping out small businesses with managing their customers and suppliers.
Diversity & Inclusion
Whispir places a high value on inclusion. Those from under represented communities are encouraged to apply. This includes, but is definitely not limited to, people with a lived-experience of mental ill health, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities.
We take our core values seriously and work hard to create an environment where you feel welcomed. Teams who reflect a diversity of experience, identity, perspective, and background help us to create a healthy & inclusive working culture

If this has resonated with you, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations