About the role:

As the Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be providing leadership and direction on our front-end web capabilities and patterns in our growth team. Your role is to develop and deliver our web and app applications, working closely with other software engineers, a UX designer, a product manager, and other key stakeholders to devise innovative solutions to customer problems. You will be influential in defining and leading the direction of the future of the hipages frontend architecture and the hipages software architecture as we continue to evolve

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
• Work from home with 50/50 hybrid working model
• Cross functional collaboration with autonomous work driven by your own innovation
• Leverage hands-on learning, coaching opportunities and workshops for continuous upskilling
• Inhouse Talent Development team to support your personal career growth and plan for your promotion!

How you will add value:

• Raising the bar of what-good-looks-like within hipages Engineering
• Design, development, and delivery of quality, maintainable software applications
• Creation of APIs which will be consumed both internally and externally
• Involvement in data-driven product experimentation
• Writing clean, scalable, testable code to support and enable the growth of the company
• Participation in discussions of system architecture
• Coaching and mentoring of more junior team members

About you:

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Relevant software engineering experience within a product led organisation or startup environment
• Experience in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining React applications
• Experience scaling front end patterns across a multi team environment
• Experience working in an agile team (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience writing automated tests
• Good understanding of modern CICD practices
• Experience working with modern design practices eg: Atomic Design Principles, Design Systems, etc
• Working in a Cloud environment (bonus if it is AWS)

About the company:

We are an Australian-owned, ASX-listed tech company and the leading online tradie marketplace in Australia. Inspired and driven by our purpose of transforming the trade industry, building better lives for everyone, hipages Group operates via three technology-enabled platforms; hipages, Tradiecore, and Builderscrack (NZ) with over 300 team members across Australia, China, Philippines and New Zealand.

Take a look inside our home:

Ranked Top 3 in Best Places to Work in Australia for the past three years, we offer meaningful, impactful work collaborating and innovating with the best and brightest in a transparent, supportive and fast-paced work environment:

• Close-knit diverse family of bright, respectful, collaborative members who love to solve problems and jump on new opportunities
• Strengths based organisation with in house coaching to help you leverage what makes you special
• Holistic wellbeing focus with EAP access, meditation room, daily bottomless continental breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks and diversity initiatives and celebrations
• Inspiring office and location - based in the heart of Sydney CBD, only a few steps from Town Hall Station, with multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration and social areas
• Social connection focus: Friday socials, 2x big company parties per year and regular and fun teaming activities - we work hard but play hard too!

We value Diversity:

Innovation & Collaboration are core values at hipages, and are impossible to cultivate without a diverse and inclusive team. We don't expect you to be an expert in all areas, we’re more interested in who you are as a person, a team member and a leader.

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other minority groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you don't tick every single box above, but you think you would be a great fit for the role we encourage you to apply, we would LOVE to hear from you!

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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