Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Act as a core pillar in the development and scalability of our systems.
• Focus heavily on deep technical capabilities, technical leadership, and a commitment to technical excellence.
• Take responsibility for mentoring the team, setting high code-quality standards, and transforming abstract business requirements into robust and efficient system architectures.
• Strengthen technical hard skills within the team and provide intensive mentoring to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure all code and built systems meet and adhere to technical excellence standards, including performance, security, scalability, and clean code.
• Initiate active and innovative ways to elevate and update the organisation's engineering standards to a higher level.
• Translate ambiguous or poorly defined business and product problems into well-structured technical designs, database schemas, and system architectures.
• Break down complex and large-scale technical challenges into clear, well-planned, and actionable technical workstreams for the team to execute.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for automation across the software development lifecycle, such as CI/CD implementation, automated testing, performance monitoring, and release processes.
• Optimise team workflows and developer experience (DevEx) to minimise technical debt and accelerate time-to-market.
• Drive code democratisation by building modular architectures, reusable components, shared libraries, and robust APIs/SDKs.
• Create comprehensive and clear technical documentation, including system architecture diagrams, API contracts, and runbooks, to empower other engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate and innovate independently.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or demonstrate equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrate at least 5+ years of software development experience across Backend or Fullstack domains, utilising one or more general-purpose programming languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or Go.
• Maintain deep familiarity with server-side web frameworks such as Django, Laravel, or Node.js.
• Exhibit familiarity with frontend JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular to support fullstack capabilities.
• Thrive and enjoy working within a collaborative, fast-paced team environment.
• Possess a proven track record of guiding technical initiatives and mentoring software engineering teams to ensure deliverables meet technical excellence standards.
• Communicate with working proficiency in both verbal and written English.
• Remain highly open to exploring, learning, and implementing new technologies and engineering concepts.
• Show a keen interest and capability to learn other programming languages and technical stacks as required.
• Demonstrate a profound understanding of core software engineering principles, computer science concepts, and system architecture.