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FiscalNote Hiring for Software Engineer, Timebase Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time
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About the Position
About the Timebase Team
About You
What to Expect in this Position:
At FiscalNote, we Lead with Values
Only applicants that are legally eligible to work in Australia will be considered
If your background and experience align with the competencies above, we encourage you to apply so that we can review your experience and learn more about how you can add to FiscalNote’s growth and success.
FiscalNote is continuing to hire new talent, with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. New team members, along with our current staff, will temporarily work remotely (unless communicated otherwise).
Thank you for your interest in this position with Timebase, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FiscalNote. The recruitment for this role is being managed by FiscalNote’s Recruiting team (parent company), so you are in the right place! Please continue to review this opportunity and apply at your interest. We are excited to review your background. Thank you!
About the Position
At TimeBase, our Technology team builds applications and infrastructure that help professional users research and keep up to date with legislative change.
As a Software Engineer, you’ll create data pipelines that transform and ingest thousands of new documents daily into our search engine infrastructure, and build tools and procedures for efficient maintenance.
You’ll work closely with our legal editorial team, and engineers to build solutions to complex open-ended problems, and play a critical role in delivering them to the thousands of organisations that depend on TimeBase.
About the Timebase Team
TimeBase is the best place to find, search, track and make sense of Australian legislation. We help our customers to navigate the complex legislative landscape with confidence and efficiency, and to keep on top of the legislative changes that matter to them. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative technology processes to deliver the timely, accurate and comprehensive services our customers rely on.
TimeBase is now a part of FiscalNote, the leading technology provider of global policy and market intelligence.
About You
You are an experienced software engineer looking for more autonomy in a local, small team setting with all the benefits that come from having an exciting offshore parent company. You like working in an environment with multiple tech stacks and you are comfortable proposing well-thought-out solutions and architectures to both technical and non-technical audiences. You take initiative to get the job done, and are comfortable applying your existing knowledge, learning new skills and coming up with new solutions
What to Expect in this Position:
- Working with the CTO, you will be responsible for the data that powers our in-house software, legislative API and website that is relied on by our professional customer base
- You will participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, deploy and maintain production services that help publish and index millions of documents
- A key part of the role involves building and maintaining conversion programs that transform disparate data sets into consistent and ingestible formats.
- Demonstrated experience using our main languages – Ruby, C# and Java
- Experience with complex XML data sources (particularly unstructured)
- Knowledge of data storage design (RDMS and NoSQL)
- Knowledge of web data extraction techniques
- Experience dealing with legislative text, or similar formats such as Treaties or case law is a plus
- Knowledge of data ingestion and data processing pipelines
- Willingness to learn and to put forward novel ideas
About FiscalNote
FiscalNote is the premier information services company focused on global policy and market intelligence. By combining AI technology, expert analysis, and legislative, regulatory, and geopolitical data, FiscalNote is reinventing the way that organizations minimize risk and capitalize on opportunity.
Home to CQ, Roll Call, Oxford Analytica, and VoterVoice, FiscalNote empowers more than 5,000 clients worldwide to monitor, manage, and act on the issues that matter most to them. To learn more about FiscalNote and its family of brands, visit FiscalNote.com and follow @FiscalNote.
At FiscalNote, we Lead with Values
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Only applicants that are legally eligible to work in Australia will be considered
If your background and experience align with the competencies above, we encourage you to apply so that we can review your experience and learn more about how you can add to FiscalNote’s growth and success.
FiscalNote is continuing to hire new talent, with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. New team members, along with our current staff, will temporarily work remotely (unless communicated otherwise).
