Senior Frontend Engineer
Brighte
Software Engineering
Sydney, Australia
Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2023
Brighter Together
Brighte is on a mission to make every home sustainable.
By offering financial solutions to homeowners, we’re making renewable energy and home improvements more accessible to the everyday Aussie.
Between Nov 2016 and Feb 2022, Brighte has facilitated the installation of solar systems for over 110,000 households. Currently we have 1700 GWh generated by our customers each year which is saving 1 million + metric tons on C02 emissions per year!
Our founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, has been awarded Telstra Business Woman of the year in 2020 as well as winning the Sustainability Crusader award at B&T's 2023 Women Leading Tech Awards. She is a passionate and humble leader who has a human first approach to business. As a business we have been awarded AFR Sustainability Leader in the Banking and Finance category and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies!
We value different perspectives, skills and backgrounds and have been recognised for our strength in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, winning Best Workplace Diversity (Finnies 2021).
The primary responsibilities of the software engineer are to design, develop, test and maintain software programs for computer operating systems or applications as well as confer with and assist team members and other developers on problems, improvements and modifications to system software and projects.
You will be building front end components as well as wrangling APIs in the back end and ensure the quality of delivery. You are also expected to conduct code reviews and keep up with industry best practices and new technologies, learning & implementing latest trends.
What You'll Do
- You’re able to take improvements and features right through to production and see the impact with the end user.
- Your ideas will be listened to within the team and you can provide direction and guidance to more jnr engineers.
- You can take ownership of features and directly impact customers and vendors.
- You should be looking to take on leadership positions, such as a feature lead role, or be providing really strong knowledge around one or many technical aspects.
- You should be suggesting, introducing and actioning improvements to the team, along with working collaboratively with product and other teams, driving successful delivery.
Who You Are
- Robust industry experience in React, Redux and Typescript
- Proficient in GraphQL
- Experienced with React Native and some commercial experience building mobile apps
- Experience with deployment pipeline technologies like AWS, bitbucket
- Unit testing using tools such as enzyme, Cypress, Jest and Mocha
- Experience with software platform design, Full SDLC, SOLID principles, Design Patterns, unit testing, Security & Compliance
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines including GIT / Bitbucket code repositories and workflows
- Worked in an agile scrum, continuously shipping environment
- You have a customer centric mindset
- Hungry to learn new skills, share the knowledge with your team and expand your horizon
- You care about the user experience; building responsive, user-friendly web applications
- A conceptual, critical and analytical thinker, who loves to provide outside-of-the-box problem solving skills
- You can communicate your ideas coherently, especially to those not technologically proficient
- An individual who is pro-active, has a strong sense of ownership, and able to work autonomously
Named LinkedIn’s #10 Top Australian Start Up (2021), we know we wouldn’t be anywhere without our investors, who believe in our mission and the opportunities that lie ahead for a brighter future.
Airtree Ventures, Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Investments, Kim Jackson and Scott Farquhar’s Skip Capital, and Qualgro Partners all continue to support Brighte in making this dream a reality!
If you want to join this mission-driven, inclusive, and highly collaborative team, click apply and upload your resume! All applicants will receive a response.