Senior Software Engineer (Open to remote locations across Australia)

Job Description

OFX is a leading financial operations company providing businesses and accounting firms with real-time financial control and visibility to do business anywhere in the world. With an innovative platform and 24/7 human support, OFX automates and simplifies doing business across borders, reducing risk and eliminating routine operational tasks. Offering global business accounts, payments to 180 countries in 30+ currencies and currency risk management solutions to simplify global payments. OFX further enhances business operations by providing corporate cards with spend management, bill payments, vendor management, and integrations with popular accounting and HRIS software, to help achieve better business solutions so accounting firms and businesses thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices globally, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. OFX has been a trusted innovator in global money movement for over 25 years.

Purpose of your role

The Software Engineer role is responsible for delivering high quality code in a timely manner while working with the Tech Lead and Engineering Managers to design solutions as appropriate. Working in an agile environment you bring excellent problem-solving skills while delivering quality software. On a day-to-day basis the Software Engineer is actively helping enhance the continuous improvement of our technical delivery while positively contributing to discussions and team dynamics. The Software Engineer will proactively seek to learn and grow on the job to push the quality of the team's delivery forward. The Software Engineer is responsible for delivering high quality application, automation and testing code in accordance with industry best practice and OFX guidelines.

What you do

• Work closely with the Tech Lead and Engineering Manager in delivering code and participating in code reviews.
• Ensure code is efficient and adheres to OFX coding standards and guidelines and industry best practices.
• Ensure you take ownership of work and collaborate effectively with the team. Seek clarification from Engineering Manager, Tech Lead and senior engineers.
• As part of an agile team assist outside of your core skills including deployments, QA and level 3 support when appropriate.
• Work collaboratively within the agile team to deliver user stories. Owning stories to ensure they meet all functional and non-functional acceptance criteria.
• Work with the Engineering Manager and Tech Lead to create solutions and conduct spikes when required.
• Participate in code reviews and proof of concepts.
• Maintain consistent and constant communication with stakeholders.
• Document solution proposals, decisions and guides to troubleshoot and maintain systems we own.
• Stay curious and learn and acquire skills on the job.

Qualifications

What you bring

Experience

• Experience with commercial software development in C# and .NET required.
• Experience with distributed version control system such as Git. Experience with branching, pull-requests and build pipelines. 
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Configuration Management.
• Extensive experience with unit testing and automated test suits.
• Professional understanding of Agile/incremental development methodology. 
• Experience working with a Microservices architecture.
• Experience working with relational Databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience designing, building and working with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with a public cloud. AWS experience would give you a head start but Azure/GCP experience can be handy as well.
• Experience working with serverless compute such as AWS Lamba or similar.
• Commercial experience working with containers such as Docker.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in React, TypeScript/ECMAScript/Modern JavaScript, linting, bundling, transpiling and deploying apps to the cloud.
• Experience building and running production apps in NodeJS.
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) product development desired.

Additional Information

What it's like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally, to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer a wide range of learning and career development opportunities to help every OFXer build their capacity and career, with leadership training, secondments, internal mobility and access to a large library of online learning.
• Make a difference. Through our Make a Difference program, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, which OFXers can use together or individually, as well as matched giving and the opportunity to nominate charity of choice every quarter.
• Reward and recognition. We recognise a job well done. OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of global and regional channels and awards, including quarterly and annual awards, milestones and shout outs.
• Showing our social side. Our Good Vibes employee-led committees around the globe organize events to help keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s a wellbeing activity, end of year celebration, or a monthly team get-together, our team wants you to feel welcome!
• Benefits that mean something. We offer a range of fantastic benefits, including health insurance, primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you'll feel well-supported at OFX.
• A great work environment. Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at [email protected].

We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.