Plexus Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

• Play a key role in transforming our world class product and make an impact daily
• Be able to hide complexity and allow for feature richness across the platform
• Continuously improve our product both in features, technology, and growth

About the role

The Software Engineer works within the Plexus Engineering team and plays a key role in transforming our world-class product strategy into a SaaS platform loved by our valued clients. Our technology products are growing rapidly, and we need to continue to evolve and enhance them to continuously grow to solve our customer problems.

The Software Engineer will be working within an Agile team as a full stack developer across our platform made up of React, VueJS, Python, Django, Heroku, AWS, Serverless, Microservices, Event Sourcing and other leading-edge technology solutions.

At Plexus we focus on simplicity and making it easy. We want our products to be simple to use but powerful at the same time. We want to hide complexity while allowing for feature richness. Your day to day work will be about continuously improving our product both in features, technology, and growth around the world.

Key objectives and desired outcomes

• Working in collaborative Agile teams to deliver product features, bug fixes and general enhancements covering the full stack of technologies contained in the platform
• Contribute to, enhance, and run our CI/CD pipelines including taking ownership of no-outage deployment processes.
• Within the first 3 months you will be participating in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, estimation, story kickoffs and showcases.
• Understand and contribute to the best practice architectural strategies used by Plexus, including Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing

The ideal candidate will

• Have been building web-based SaaS products for 3+ years now.
• Intimately understand backend programming languages for the web, including Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc. While we ultimately use Python at Plexus you may come from a different language but are a quick learner and keen to expand your skillset.
• Have an understanding of front-end technologies, including React (or Angular), HTML5, CSS3, Less, SASS etc.
• Have worked with cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS and Serverless frameworks.
• Be obsessed with quality and SOLID engineering principles.
• Understand the differences between CI/CD, TDD/BDD etc and have utilised tooling to support them.
• Have a keen eye for coding styles and be opinionated on best practice coding approaches.
• Understand what Agile in the real world is about and how to deliver within an Agile product development process.