Full Stack Engineer

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Engineer

Location: Sydney

Job Type: Contract

Job Description

This role facilitates product and platform development by planning, designing, leading and executing technical solutions and improvements. Reporting to the Engineering Manager and working closely with a Technical Lead, this is a hands-on, senior, individual contributor role. You set standards and lead from the front on all technical matters: Architecture, Development, Documentation, Quality and Application Performance. Your strong technical skills, thought leadership and collaborative approach bring out the best from your squad.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on development experience in a full-stack environment with PHP, WordPress and Laravel.
• Hands-on experience building modern, scalable web applications and reusable component libraries using frameworks like React and TypeScript.
• Experience developing API’s (REST or GraphQL) and stand-alone applications using frameworks such as Laravel and Horizon.
• Hands-on experience implementing solutions on top of SQL and NoSQL databases, comfortable using an ORM system such as Eloquent.
• Exposure to or experience with front-end frameworks such as Gutenberg will be a plus.
• Exposure to performance profiling tools such as Blackfire will be highly regarded.
• Experience developing/maintaining applications with at least one cloud vendor such as AWS or GCP.
• Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, Microservices, Distributed Systems, ETL processes, etc.
• Practical understanding of key DevOps principles: Automation, CICD, Observability.
• Experience building high traffic systems that are secure, available, scalable and cost-efficient. Practical understanding of a framework such as AWS’s Well-Architected Framework
• Demonstrated ability to ensure applications are built for optimal performance and scalability, including implementing caching strategies, optimising database queries, and identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.