Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at Pole Star you will contribute towards ensuring the architecture of Pole Star is robust and secure, utilising a wide spread of technologies. Including Amazon web services such as Cognito, Lambda, EC2, relational databases, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, app sync and more. You will also carry out development work, including backend, frontend, iOS and Android development. You will be responsible for ensuring all back end, web and mobile apps work together efficiently, seamlessly and securely. Supporting the existing product working with older technologies such as jQuery, Java 8 and MySQL.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platform
• Collaborate cross-functionally with, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.
• Review the current AWS framework for Pole Star and recommend changes to support best practice to ensure the systems are robust
• Manage AWS cloud administration and issue required reports related to usage and costs
• Identify technologies to be used and ensure they are established, robust, future proof and well supported
• Collaborate with team members to determine best practices and requirements for software, architecture and data storage
• Supporting architecture reviews etc by external parties
• Be involved in the design/architecture/development/programming/testing and deployment of new software solutions including front end (Full stack).
• Work with support on investigations and fixes of data and provide help on the Database when required
• Write reusable code and libraries and improving processes
• Manage the code base/repository.
• Integrate backend code with front end
• Deploying all new code
• Problem solve and fix bugs
• Integrate third party and internal APIs
• Data Import and export functionality
• Write user-facing features
• Support maintenance and testing of modules and components
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Work with the QA team and support when required for testing purposes

• At least 5-7 years relevant experience in the backend and apps development
• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
• We’re looking for someone with in B2B, has a BS degree in computer science or similar, and is familiar with the following software/tools:
  • Experience with infrastructure automation technologies like Docker, Vagrant, etc.
  • Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
  • Experience with monitoring technologies like Nagios, Ganglia, etc.
  • Experience with modern programming languages like Java, Python, etc.
  • Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
  • Experience with scripting languages like Perl, Shell, etc.
• Linux Server Management, Shell scripting
• AWS solutions architect experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team Player and be able to lead by example
• Problem Solving

• Knowledge of:
  • Kotlin
  • Objective C/Swift
  • GraphQL
• Build:
  • Gradle/Maven
  • Jenkins
  • AWS Amplify
  • GIT
• Docker, ECS, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of design patterns
• Exposure to testing frameworks (Junit, Selenium etc)
• Experience working in a remote environment.
• A level of travel will be required.