Software Engineer

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital. Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Job Description

The Nine Publishing Technology team continually delivers and maintains premium, market leading digital products, including: smh.com.au, theage.com.au and afr.com.au across multiple platforms and systems.

Software Engineers are responsible for the design, development, and delivery of products and services that delight our customers, and grow the business.

You will be responsible for developing high-quality, scalable and high performing solutions that align to business and technology goals. You will be working with technology leaders and other senior engineers to ensure consistency of our practices and processes across the Publishing Technology team.

You will work in a busy and stimulating environment responding swiftly to resolve production incidents as required and be available to support your products and services as needed. You will continuously learn and improve on your skills in emerging technologies and new toolsets and share knowledge and learnings with other engineers.

Qualifications

We are seeking great team players with passion for delivering great digital products. You will have excellent communication skills and a strong customer focus. You will thrive in working in a busy environment with competing priorities. You will have excellent analytical and

problem solving skills and an understanding of modern development practices and processes is highly regarded.

Must have:

• Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in React JS (or a framework like NextJS, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Previous experience in web development/software design spanning the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment to production.
  
  

Nice to have but not essential:

• Previous experience in writing unit and integration tests using frameworks like jest and vite.
• Previous experience in writing end to end tests using frameworks like Cypress or Playwright
• Previous experience with several general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Golang, Python, Ruby, Node.js is highly regarded.
• Experience in building and integrating high performance REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge and experience of DevOps.
  
  

Additional Information

Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partner
  
  

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.