Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Sydney)

Staff Software Development Engineer, Full-Stack (Sydney)

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Are you a passionate and ambitious Staff Software Engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth? We’re seeking talented individuals who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions, and collaborate with some of the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Dive into intricate projects that challenge and push boundaries. Solve complex technical puzzles and craft scalable solutions.
• Accelerate Your Growth: Access mentorship, training, and hands-on experiences to level up your skills. Learn from industry experts and gain expertise in scaling software.
• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside exceptional engineers, exchanging ideas and driving innovation forward through collaboration.
• Caring Culture, Career Development: We deeply care about your career. Our culture prioritises your growth with tailored learning programs and mentorship.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Take on challenges, learn from failures, and celebrate achievements together.
• Shape the Future: Your contributions will shape the future of entertainment.

If you’re passionate about growth, innovation, and working with the best, we’d love to have you on our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Define and drive technical vision, strategy, and architecture aligning with business objectives.
• Handle data driven events and ensure robust event handling at scale.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior engineers in the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Experience with modern tech stacks (ideally JavaScript / Go, Docker, Cloud services e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and related technologies.
• Proficient in JavaScript fundamentals, Design Patterns, Subscriptions WebSockets, Pub/Sub), TypeScript and related technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong understanding of code architecture, design principles and documentation practices.
• Analytical mindset to address complex technical challenges and devise innovative solutions.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with teams and stakeholders.
• Positive attitude and eagerness to learn new technologies to grow as a Lead engineer.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Staff or Principal Software Engineer in a large-scale product company
• Experience building web applications and debugging production applications
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., AWS Code Pipeline, Github Actions) for automating the deployment process.

Some of the perks of joining us: 

• Championing Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8’s, Go, Terraform, Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
• EAP access for you and your family
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform 
• Paid volunteer day
• Team lunches every Monday. 
• Fun office environment with table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.
• Unlimited snacks and drinks provided.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.