Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Native)

Wenco has R&D offices located in Vancouver, Canada and Brisbane, Australia. This role is based in Brisbane.

As Wenco continues to build our next generation of technology, we need a wide range of professionals to help us achieve our objectives. We are currently looking for a full-time Senior Software Engineer with skills in the development, deployment and monitoring of highly available, highly robust services.

Reporting to the Research & Development Manager, the Senior Software Engineer will work as a member of an agile software team, focusing on Wenco’s next generation Fleet Management System and Autonomy platform. We are looking for someone who can provide technical leadership in a team creating high performance, business critical capabilities within the field of mining fleet management. This is an opportunity to join a significant greenfields development project at an early stage.

Key Responsibilities

• Development
  • Design and implement robust, reliable and resilient software solutions using a cloud native approach
  • Contribute to design and implementation across the full stack including backend web services
  • Support technical services and operations teams with investigation and reproduction of customer issues
• Technical leadership 
  • Be relentless in pursuit of continuous improvement
  • Promote a culture of quality and technical excellence within the development team
  • Mentor others in the team
  • Work with the Product Owner to help set direction for the team
  • Coordinate with globally distributed 3rd party development teams
• Product development support
  • Interface with product management/owners and developers to define and improve requirements and automated and manual test cases.

Qualifications & Skills

• A minimum of 7 years work experience as a software engineer with at least two years in a senior role
• Extensive experience in developing containerised services for demanding environments
• Software and system design using Clean Architecture and Domain Driven Design concepts and methods
• Experience across the entire development lifecycle from concept to development, unit testing, automated functional testing, deployment and monitoring
• Commercial experience with relational and document databases
• Demonstrated experience working with Scrum practices

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with C++
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with containerization and orchestration and management tools such as Kubernetes
• Commercial experience delivering products onto cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience and/or knowledge of the mining industry

Education & Eligibility

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems/Electronics/Software Engineering or equivalent
• You must be eligible to work in Australia
• This role may require some international and domestic travel (<10%)