Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Engagement team (Melbourne)

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Are you a passionate and ambitious software engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth? We're seeking talented individuals who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions, and collaborate with some of the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Dive into intricate projects that challenge and push boundaries. Solve complex technical puzzles and craft scalable solutions.
• Invest in Mastery: Access tailored learning programs, dedicated mentorship, and over 9,000 courses to accelerate your professional growth and gain deep expertise in building large-scale, high-volume products.
• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside exceptional engineers, exchanging ideas and driving innovation forward through collaboration.
• Maximum Impact: Your contributions will directly shape the future of top-tier entertainment experiences, solving complex technical puzzles and driving innovation across our global platform.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Take on challenges, learn from failures, and celebrate achievements together.

Key Responsibilities:

• Elevate Technical Strategy and Architecture
• Design and evolve large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that handle high-volume traffic and degrade gracefully under failure or attack.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, mentoring senior engineers and driving consensus on critical frontend and full-stack architecture decisions.
• Drive and lead cross-cutting platform initiatives, such as rendering strategy improvements, static asset delivery, and overall reduction of redundant backend load.
• Ensure System Health and Performance
• Optimise existing systems for world-class performance, scalability, and reliability, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Deliver end-to-end platform improvements that directly address systemic bottlenecks and complex failure modes across the platform.
• Improve deployment safety, rollout strategies, and failure recovery to minimize platform-wide incidents.
• Partner with Platform and Infrastructure teams on large-scale efforts including scaling, load balancing, caching, and lifecycle management.
• Set the Bar for Execution
• Write and ship high-quality production code, primarily in TypeScript and Javascript (Node.js), establishing and upholding the standard for code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, communicating complex technical concepts and project updates clearly and concisely.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, preferably Typescript, JavaScript, Svelte or other server-side rendering frameworks (React, NextJS, Vue etc).
• Proficient in Node.js, Rest API, Kubernetes (K8), Design Patterns, Subscriptions (WebSockets, Pub/Sub etc) and related technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to lead resolution of complex technical challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Some of the perks of working for us:

• Influence Culture and Excellence: Directly champion and drive cultural change across the organization to raise the bar for engineering excellence.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, Svelte, Typescript, Node.js, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!).
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• EAP access for you and your family.
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses.
• Give back with a paid volunteer day.
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house.
• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays.
• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs.
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
• Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week.
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.