Senior Software Engineer (Open to remote locations across Australia)

Job Description

Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

Purpose of your role

The Senior Software Engineer role is responsible for delivering high quality code in a timely manner while leading and working with the engineering managers to design solutions as appropriate. Working in an agile environment you will provide technical leadership and provide senior technical expertise and support while delivering quality software. On a day to day basis the Senior Software Engineer is actively helping lead the continuous improvement of our technical delivery and agile processes while positively leading and contributing to discussions and team dynamics.

The Senior Software Engineer will proactively help push the technical standards and quality of the team forwards. The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for delivering high quality application, automation and testing code in accordance with industry best practice and OFX guidelines.

This exciting new position involves becoming an integral part of our agile team dedicated to crafting and overseeing the heart of OFX. You'll contribute to impactful engineering and product initiatives, focusing on core capabilities like FX and treasury services.

Where required, the Senior Software Engineer will take on the technical leadership of a piece of work by performing the function of a technical lead on a task. 

What you do

• Work closely with the solution and application architects, help improve our coding practices while delivering code and participating in code reviews.
• Ensure code is efficient and adheres to OFX coding standards and guidelines and industry best practices.
• Ensure that our capability and expertise continue to evolve by motivating the teams and promoting a collaborative working environment.
• Identify complex areas of code that require refactoring and technical debt and ensure these are addressed as appropriate.
• As part of an agile team assist outside of your core skills including deployments, QA and level 3 support when appropriate.
• Actively provide appropriate leadership as part of the product development team including mentorship and coaching.
• Work collaboratively within the agile team to deliver user stories. Owning stories to ensure they meet all functional and non-functional acceptance criteria.
• Work with the solution and application architects to create solutions and conduct spikes when required.
• Participate in design reviews and proof of concepts.
• Maintain consistent and constant communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

Valuable Experience

• Demonstrated experience developing software. We’d like you to come equipped with expert knowledge in C# and .NET (Core and Framework).
• Extensive experience with commercial software development required.
• Experience designing, building, and working with RESTful APIs.
• Experience building and running distributed systems
• Experience operating services on serverless or containerized environments
• Good understanding of cloud-native application architectures (we use AWS)
• Knowledge of the client/server technology stack and tools (HTTP, Auth, Timeouts, Retries)
• Extensive experience with relational databases like SQL Server or Postgres.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and systems
• Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices such as TDD, Scrum, Kanban etc.
• Extensive experience with unit testing and acceptance criteria frameworks
• Experience with architectural design patterns and data modelling and design

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform) and DevOps practices
• Experience working with NoSQL storage solutions like DynamoDB
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) product development
• Knowledge of cross-border payments and systems

Additional Information

What it's like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally, to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer a wide range of learning and career development opportunities to help every OFXer build their capacity and career, with leadership training, secondments, internal mobility and access to a large library of online learning.
• Make a difference. Through our Make a Difference program, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, which OFXers can use together or individually, as well as matched giving and the opportunity to nominate charity of choice every quarter.
• Reward and recognition. We recognise a job well done. OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of global and regional channels and awards, including quarterly and annual awards, milestones and shout outs.
• Showing our social side. Our Good Vibes employee-led committees around the globe organize events to help keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s a wellbeing activity, end of year celebration, or a monthly team get-together, our team wants you to feel welcome!
• Benefits that mean something. We offer a range of fantastic benefits, including health insurance, primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you'll feel well-supported at OFX.
• A great work environment. Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at [email protected].
We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.