Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

At Ordermentum, we are on a mission to help food and beverage and suppliers trade smarter and more sustainably. We help venues discover, connect, order and pay from Australia’s best food and beverage suppliers, among other tools to help run their business better and focus on what they love doing most. We’re looking to scale up our team that helps over 40,000 venues find new suppliers and understand and adopt our various features.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Ordermentum,

What you’ll do:

• Build scalable and maintainable software in a SaaS environment
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams on the feasibility and architectural requirements for early design concepts
• Mentor and pair with engineers to drive quality and best practices across our codebases
• Work with your team to develop and maintain supporting libraries to speed up development

What you’ll have:

• 3 years+ Node.js development experience
• You value clean, reusable, maintainable code and follow best practices
• Solid understanding of SOA design principles, integration patterns, and best practices including messaging systems.
• Extensive knowledge of common web connectivity and integration standards/protocols such as GraphQL, REST and grpc.
• Strong experience with Relational Database Management Systems (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Strong understanding of design principles behind a scalable application in a SaaS context

You will also be:

• Driven, determined and disciplined
• Advanced levels of critical thinking with a creative and innovative mind
• Open and transparent communication style and ability to communicate a plan to both non-technical and technical team members
• Positive, can-do attitude that inspires others

About Us



Be part of an engineering team that will scaffold world class software and data and machine learning to drive brand engagement, customer acquisition, sales growth, cost and cash flow efficiencies and business insights like never before between retailers and suppliers.

Our stack is deployed to the AWS cloud. We use TypeScript backends with PostgreSQL for storage and ElasticSearch for performant searching. Everything is deployed on Kubernetes via our Buildkite pipelines.