Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Birchal:

Birchal is Australia’s leading crowd-sourced investment platform. We are at the forefront of the Australian crowdfunding landscape, dedicated to bridging the gap between enthusiastic investors and innovative companies. Our robust digital platform enables start-ups and growth-stage businesses to achieve their fundraising goals, whilst providing investors with unique opportunities in the Australian market.

With an ambitious vision for the future, we're excited to expand our team! This is a fantastic opportunity for you to understand Australia's crowdsourcing and startup communities and interact with a wide variety of people, from entrepreneurs to investors.

About The Opportunity:

Birchal is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our engineering team as we build new and exciting features for our platform. In this role you will be part of a product-focused team, reporting to the Lead Engineer and closely collaborating with engineers, designers and product management.

Key responsibilities:

• Play a critical role in developing and maintaining robust and scalable web applications including our client-facing platform and supporting services
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Help define development standards to ensure security, performance, and documentation are satisfactory
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practice as well as our own internal standards
• Mentor other engineers, providing guidance and fostering a culture of learning and knowledge sharing
• Work towards achieving a high level of automation, testing and observability across our systems
• Be a champion of agile ways of working, strategising to effectively deliver the next value increment to address real problems and opportunities whilst helping to plan out the larger and longer-term technical strategy, architecture, process/practice and engineering initiatives

Skills:

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate strong skills in the following areas:

• Javascript and Typescript
• React.js or comparable front-end frameworks, including build tools (e.g. WebPack, Vite)
• Node.JS
• HTML5, CSS, Responsive design
• SQL (e.g. Postgres, MySQL or equivalent)
• ORMs (e.g. Sequelize, Prisma)
• Unit testing (e.g. Jest, snapshots, use of mocks)
• GraphQL and/or REST APIs
• Cloud Deployment and Infrastructure Management (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Software architecture (e.g. use of sensible patterns and practices)

The following skills are highly regarded, but not essential:

• Automated Testing (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Build Pipelines (e.g. GitHub actions, GitLab workflows)
• Knowledge of containerisation (e.g. Docker) and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes) is a plus.

About Your Experience:

• 7+ years of relevant experience, ideally gained in a product-driven company
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Proven experience as a Fullstack Engineer with a focus on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities
• Strong initiative – in a small team you can make a huge impact, but you need to recognise and respond to what is needed
• Agile advocate - you understand the value of building incrementally and having short feedback cycles, and you actively participate in sprint ceremonies
• Product - You understand a product-driven process and keep the customer and business drivers in mind to inform your engineering solutions

What We Offer:

Birchal provides a fun and energetic, supportive and inclusive work environment that is collaborative and offers flexible working arrangements including work-from-home 2 days per week. We invest in our people by continuously upskilling through our L&D programs, holding social team activities and providing an employee assistance program (including Health & Wellness resources) amongst other great benefits.

We celebrate the diversity of people, and we pride ourselves on ensuring everyone belongs. As an equal opportunity employer, we want to create opportunities for everyone and will consider all applications without bias.