Software Engineer

Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australian eCommerce. We are a dynamic and rapidly growing business. Our team believes in using & building technology to improve the online shopping experience for our customers. We are pragmatic, intelligent, fast paced and driven by seeing our software shipped to production daily.

We are currently looking for Senior Software engineers to be based in Adelaide, South Australia.

The software we build - including www.kogan.com - is used by millions of customers. You'll be a key member of a team that is fast-paced, independent, ambitious and proficient across the full tech stack.

Our software is programmed using Python and Typescript & React, however, we're open to engineers who have worked in other, similar languages. We know that competent engineers can learn our stack, regardless of their familiarity with those languages. Likewise, although the role is ’full stack’ we're still keen to chat if you've built up experience in the back end and don’t know much Javascript or vice versa. This could be a great opportunity to learn two of the fastest growing languages in the industry.

What is important to us, is technical competency to solve problems, a desire to be across the full stack and the ability to own and deliver business outcomes.

You'll be highly accountable for your work and outcomes, excited and passionate about technology and advocate for good customer experience. To enjoy working at Kogan.com you'll be entrepreneurial and excited by business outcomes.

Skills & Experience:

• Technically competent and have solid experience in software development for the web preferably in languages like Python, Ruby, Go, Clojure, Java/.NET and/or Javascript, React, Redux, Webpack, HTML & CSS.
• Experienced in working in an Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban (pick your flavour!) team.

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Infrastructure/ops on AWS & Google Cloud a bonus - as we manage our own infrastructure using these tools.
• Working through issues at the database query level / optimising database queries.

Benefits:

• Your role has a lot of autonomy and little red tape. You’ll be empowered to achieve positive outcomes and your work will have a material.and visible impact on an already well functioning and established team.
• You’ll ride the online retail boom with us and be part of a company thriving its way forward in the e-commerce space.
• Hack days that give you the opportunity to innovate and get your creative juices flowing.
• Choice of device (Mac/Win/Linux).
• A range of employee benefits like Kogan First, Kogan discounts, health and wellness program, time to invest in learning and development, monthly lunches and loads more!

**This role is open to applicants across Adelaide, South Australia to work remotely for our team**

• Flexible hours available
• More than 4 years of relevant work experience required for this role
• Work visa can be provided for this role