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

About us

WSP Digital is a global team of innovators that use digital technologies to enhance our customer’s engineering, infrastructure, building, and environmental projects. We provide integrated services in website and mobile applications design, user experience, systems architecture, solutions architecture, website development, mobile applications development, testing, maintenance and hosting.

The Opportunity

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to join our growing team based in any of our offices nationally or remotely anywhere in Australia. You will be joining a team working on complex web applications with advanced, real time frontends and backends, integrating and processing hundreds of millions of data points daily. The primary responsibilities of the role include:

• Creating user interfaces that ensure end-users can achieve their goals in a simple and enjoyable way.
• Researching and driving the adoption of new development technologies.
• Designing, building, testing and deploying complex, multi-component JavaScript/Python applications to global clients.
• Working in a fast-moving team of smart technology professionals.
• Working face to face with clients and business analysts to provide a technical perspective on product decisions.

This is an amazing opportunity to work on major projects across Australia and globally, and positively impact lives in the community. You will also have the chance to work with some of the brightest subject matter experts in the fields of engineering, climate change and resilience, urban planning and more.

Some of the key projects we’ve recently completed:

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  Newcastle City Intelligent Platform – a smart data brokerage and visualisation platform designed to make smart city data available to all staff within Newcastle City Council.
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  Online Forms for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice – we design, implement and support a range of complex forms used by applicants for community housing in NSW.
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  Melbourne Liveability Monitor – as part of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project, we designed and built a sensor integration platform which receives, aggregates and analyses data from hundreds of sound, vibration, and air quality sensors. For more information, see our technical presentation from PyCon AU 2019: here >
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  MyRo for VicRoads – we designed and implemented a fully automated, online system that provides real time and credible traffic information during construction works through the use of portable road-side devices

What we’ll love about you

The key skills and technology required to succeed in this role are:

• Architectural design of complex JavaScript applications using React, Vue or similar
• Highly proficient Python web development skills (we use Django, including async workflows using Channels)
• Responsive web design and implementation using SASS or similar.
• Source control using Git, SVN or similar

Knowledge of the following will be highly regarded

• Implementation of WCAG compliance
• User experience design
• Amazon Web Services
• Data Science (Numpy, Scipy, Pandas etc)

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