Senior Engineer

Design and Architecture:

• Provide Software Engineering guidance to Solution Designers and BAs.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and meet business requirements.

Coding and Development:

• Write, review, and optimize code to ensure high performance and quality.
• Implement complex features and functionalities.
• Microservices development, orchestration and code documentation

Collaboration:

• Promote a collaborative culture within the team and across geographies
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including Architects,  Designers, and QA engineers.

Mentorship and Leadership:

• Mentor junior developers, providing guidance and support.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.

Quality Assurance:

• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards.
• Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Utilize static code analyzers.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
• Advocate and implement best practices in software development.

Problem Solving:

• React to production incidents within SLAs.
• Provide multiple viable solutions with clearly articulated advantages and disadvantages.

1.

Develop and keep high-standard designs/code across different applications, written in different frameworks and libraries.

2.

Develop and document all changes and ensure that the code repository and code quality guardrails are maintained. This includes Optus's in-housework and our extended team, such as a vendor. 

3.

Effectively communicating technical complexities to both technical and non-technical teams, providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, and facilitating consensus building within the team 

4.

Balancing hands-on technical work with delegating tasks to junior engineers while ensuring quality standards are met 

5.

Focus on more than just writing code, including architecture design, project planning, identifying potential risks, and making strategic decisions that impact the entire system

Decisions made under own authority

Decisions referred to higher authority

Choosing approved framework/libraries for development

Escalation management 

Decision on coding standards, and best practices

Budgetary impacts, approvals, and commitments to business 

Approval of code merges into release branches

Final approval for and scope of release 

Decision on introducing a new framework, libraries