At Zendesk, we’re always striving to break new ground with customer service software. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work with the Answer Bot team in Melbourne. This role will be focused on the Flow Builder tool that allows Zendesk admins to configure a chatbot that can converse with end users on various messaging channels like our web and mobile SDKs as well as social channels such as WhatsApp and Facebook. Our current focus is on improving the usability and adoption of this tool based on feedback from our customers following our first major release earlier this year. The next phase of growth for Flow Builder will be focused on introducing automation capabilities in these bot-powered conversations through integrations, both Zendesk and third party.
What you’ll be doing
Write clean and maintainable code to support the team’s delivery commitments
Take ownership of features and collaborate with the Tech Lead to design complete solutions
Break complex features into granular pieces of work, to facilitate incremental feedback cycles
Prioritise and estimate work balancing feature delivery with the management of tech debt
Actively participate in pairing sessions and code reviews
Work closely with Designers and Product Managers on building new capabilities
Triage customer issues in partnership with Product Managers
Provide operational support for our services in Production
Actively look for ways to improve the observability, performance, reliability and security of our services
What you bring to the role
A strong knowledge of the Java ecosystem
Experience with Akka and Kafka is advantageous but not required
Problem solver with the ability to think on your feet
A passion for software development and delivery
A keenness for mentoring other team members
A collaborative and can-do attitude
A burning desire to learn and grow
Ability to work with uncertainty
Flexibility to pivot with changing context and priorities
Tech Stack
Our code is written in Scala and Ruby
Our services communicate via REST APIs and Kafka event streams
Our platform runs on Ubuntu
Our servers live in AWS
Our services are deployed to Kubernetes using Docker
Our data is stored in Aurora MySQL
About Zendesk – Champions of Customer Service
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 logos with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in New York City, and today employs more than 4,000 people across the world. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
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