Software Engineer

About the role

Matillion is built around small development teams with responsibility for specific themes and initiatives. Each team is a mix of engineers with various levels of skills and experience. The Software Engineer works within a team to write, test, and release new features and fix problems in the Matillion products.

What you will be doing

Software Development

• A Software Engineer is expected to spend almost all of their time hands-on in the production of software for Matillion products.
• Work alongside senior engineers to refine and break down stories to levels implementable by development.
• Development and improvements in confirmation testing (unit test, API test, automation, etc.)

Innovation

• Research projects, including prototyping, to explore future opportunities.
• Investigate new technologies.
• Optimise the development process through use of automation, in-house and open source solutions.

Self Development and Growth

• Develop new skills by working with other members of the team.
• Be a self-starter and use your own initiative to recognise areas for personal development and growth
• Work with the Team Lead and Manager to identify training goals.
• Partake in technical discussions within the team.
• Actively identify and complete opportunities for self-training and external training.
• Contribute to the team’s process of continual improvement.

Support

• Responsive support to the customer-facing colleagues.
• Analysis of logs to identify issues and provide solutions.

What we are looking for

Essentials

• Demonstrable Java programming ability with some understanding of underpinning techniques.
• Object Oriented Design and Programming
• Understanding of Databases and query languages (SQL).
• Experience of writing tests to a level of production code, using JUnit.
• Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, GWT, Gradle, Jenkins, Linux, Scripting for CLI, CICD, tool automation, etc.
• Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Microsoft Azure

Personal Capabilities Required

• Inquisitiveness- digging into problems and solutions to understand the underlying technology
• Autonomy - ability to work on a task and solve problems independently
• Motivation - sets personal challenges and constantly looking to stretch themselves
• Problem solving - recognition of problems and recasting difficult-to-solve problems in order to find unique and innovative solutions
• Integrity - honest and transparent in dealing, open to voice and accept criticism, is trustworthy and builds credibility through actions
• Detail focussed - pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects
• Big picture aware - understands the scope and impact of a problem or solution