Software Engineer - Backend

Why work for Tyro

We're not just like every other bank. Tyro has always been a tech company at heart, but fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, and a passion for continuous learning has always been one of the most important parts of our company's culture.

Tyros are a highly collaborative mix of people. You will work closely with our awesome teams and individuals in engineering, product management, customer support, sales and other functions within the business. Our strong team of 600+ Tyros, just like our customers, are the lifeblood of our business. We go to great lengths to ensure a positive and enjoyable employee experience for all. Everyone is committed to delivering great outcomes for our customers, and you will have the chance to change the face of payments and commerce for Australian businesses.

About The Role

The Device Management team are a back end team focused on managing the fleet of terminals at various scales, this could be as small as a single terminal and being as large as the entire fleet. In the team you will be looking to build on the existing functionality and deliver exciting new features to help our staff better service terminals for our merchants. You will be looking for optimisations, creating efficiencies and working collaboratively with the many teams that are required to make Tyro terminals operate smoothly.

As a key member of the development team, you will work closely with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define and execute on our vision and values. Whilst based in Sydney, you will report to the Engineering Lead.

What You'll Do

• Be Involved throughout the whole delivery life cycle, from inception to production, through to planning, development and testing, contributing at every stage
• Translate your technical skills to influence other developers, product managers and senior managers to ensure the team understands the Tyro vision
• Develop high performance features, services and algorithms
• Experiment with new technologies! We're always open to trialling something new here
• Ensure openness, transparency and visibility at all times
• Foster initiatives in speed of delivery, customer focus, creativity and experimentation
• Set examples for having high ownership, enthusiasm and a can-do mentality to the team
• Balance the needs of product/service features with technical vision and operational needs
• Align vision with our goals for technology, delivery, quality, customer focus and simplicity
  
  

What You'll Bring

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 4-8 years of experience in developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of education or work experience
• Proven working experience in Java/Kotlin/Nodejs
• Experience with Cloud-based development and DevOps practices (AWS, ECS, ECR, S3, Lambda etc)
• Solid understanding of how to build testable, decoupled, maintainable code and other engineering best practices
• Passion for creating quality software and up to date on new technologies
• Test automation and Continuous Integration & Delivery practices
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities, with the ability to influence the engineering teams towards a united vision
• Desirable experience with Kotlin, Spring, Hibernate, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
• Strong communication and leadership abilities, with the ability to influence the engineering teams towards a united vision and goal
  
  

Perks And Benefits

We’ve worked hard to create an environment that’s big on diversity, inclusion, and flexibility, and one that suits the changing needs of our people across Australia. Here are just some of the things Tyros tell us they love about working here: 

• A hybrid working policy that truly enables you to live your best life
• Learning and career development opportunities
• 16 weeks paid primary carers leave
• 12 weeks paid secondary carers leave
• Annual team-based volunteer day
• We're a social bunch, we love a weekly team social event, snacks, a selection of craft beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages, ping pong and video games
• Taco Tuesdays
• Mental health and wellness initiatives
• Personal finance initiatives