Position Summary
We’re looking for a Senior Web Engineer to join our growing engineering team who have worked across the successful launch multiple OTT platforms. This is a unique opportunity to be mentored by highly experienced teammates in a team that prides itself on continuously experimenting and learning from each other.
You’ll develop foundational web development skills while learning the ins and outs of the booming streaming industry. The web team is responsible not only for the OTT platforms but also its Chromecast offering, streaming to hundreds of thousands of Australians each day.
Major Areas of Responsibility
- Responsible for maintaining technical standards, using your judgement and experience to help ensure timely delivery of projects.
- Contributing to a team culture of excellence – mentoring juniors, knowledge sharing, and providing constructive criticism to others to help them grow
- Building isomorphic web application, using functional reactive programming (rxJS) and frontend (reactjs) JavaScript frameworks
- Building UI elements in a mature component library
- Have a mind-set that is willing to embrace new technologies and ways of doing things including curiosity about the usage of JavaScript beyond the desktop/mobile web browsers
- Identifying and advocating for technical or process improvements
- Writing automated tests (unit, functional, end-to-end, and visual regression)
- Contribute to the team’s DevOps setup, developing CI/CD pipelines and occasionally overseeing deployments
Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge Required
- 5+ years of software development experience
Expert in JS, Typescript, React, Webpack, Baconjs, RxJs.
- Expert at building web applications using HTML, React Js, CSS, and JavaScript
- Highly regarded experience working with react, rx.js or bacon.js, video technologies, accessibility best practice, SEO, and performance tuning
- Knowledge of unit testing and integration testing tools like mocha, sinon, chai, and codecept.js
- Experience with version control (GIT) beyond the basics
- Experience with continuous integration (CI)
- Understanding of RESTful services
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Experience with delivering (and optimising) advanced web and/or Connected TV applications at scale
Behavioural Competencies Required
- Excellent IT skills.
- Ability to be forward thinking.
- High-level communication skills, both written and verbal.
Benefits
- Excellent remuneration package and flexible working in every sense.
- 100% Work from home
- 2 festival bonus, mobile bill, internet bill, health allowance
- You will be working with a global team of 350+ top notch engineers, cutting edge technologies and tools.