Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Reports into: Engineering Team Lead Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Remote - open to candidates based on Australia
About Us
At BibliU, we have an audacious vision: the future of Higher Education is about ensuring all students have affordable access to their class content. To achieve this, we have built partnerships with thousands of publishers and created a Learning Enablement platform that is dedicated to making learning more equitable, effective, and efficient. Interested in helping us shake up higher education and make reading materials more accessible and learning more effective? Read on!
Our team of 80+, of which half the senior management team are women, are currently seeking engineers to work within a global, cross-functional, product-driven team.
About Our Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at BibliU, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of brilliant engineers and provide solutions to technical problems that have a direct impact on our customers. You will then take the solutions from concept to production with support from the team.
Our infrastructure is on AWS, with our codebase mainly in node.js which is written typescript/javascript. There is a frontend component to what we deliver, experience in frontend development will be beneficial currently this is based on web components.
As a senior member of the team, you will have the opportunity to act as a mentor to more junior members of the team and to help shape our technical direction. We also work closely with other teams within Bibliu so you will have the chance to build relationships across the wider team and help deliver business objectives.
We are a fully remote team, across different time zones but maintaining a positive, open and collaborative team culture remains a priority to us. We have put in place lots of initiatives to keep connected; from fortnightly team online board games and company-wide social events to weekly catch ups and virtual tea breaks. In addition, you will also have weekly one on one sessions with your manager to make sure you are getting the support you need to complete your role and to help you in career progression.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: Providing and implementing technical solutions. Delivering those solutions on agreed upon timelines Collaborating with your team and other teams to achieve company objectives Owning the teams infrastructure Providing code and scoping reviews Responding to and handling incidents in our production systems
What we are looking for
Experience with node.js with javascript/typescript Good understanding serverless architecture pertaining to AWS Confident in SQL, bonus if experienced with mysql Some experience with Elasticsearch/Opensearch Previous experience in building front end applications in javascript/typescript Individual contributor that enjoys working with a team Recognize security best practices and the ability to implement and enforce them An interest in statecharts as an application design pattern
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds, experiences and identities to apply. Each new hire is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective and BibliU is committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone can do rewarding work.
