Senior Engineer (Digital)

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering the technical solutions that meet the transformational goals of the customer. This is a hands-on role working with both the internal and customers team of engineers, contributing to detailed design work and responsible for development of the solution as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to software engineering processes and ways of working, not just coding.
• Development and implementation of agreed achitecture and detailed designs
• Contribute to features across the entire life cycle, from inception to deployment in production.
• Navigate in new code and make sense through what you find.
• Comfortable working with AI Tools to be effective and productive with development tasks
• Demonstrate an interest in working with best practices and principles while contributing to them, to keep high quality standards.
• Work towards production deployment rapidly, be able to scale and to be monitored easily.
• Enable feature improvements and delivery to be updated daily.
• A mindset ready to firefight against issues in Realtime

Technical Skills and Experience

• NodeJS experience

• Experience with Java (or similar languages)

• REST API design and implementation experience

• Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)

• Experience in horizontally scaling microservices over AWS.

• Experience with AWS (Serverless services like API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Event Bridge, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, Step Functions, Route53 and VPC

• Experience with CI/CD (AWS tools or GitHub Workflows)

• Must have solid "hands-on" software development and engineering experience for backend services/applications development.

• Must have experience with Java (or similar languages)

• Strong fundamentals of software design (design patterns etc.) as well as systems design with ability to understand the non-functionals and design trade-offs.

• Experience with developing and deploying services on Cloud (not just infra).

• Agentic AI coding experience is highly valued. At minimum should be very keen to quickly adopt AI-powered engineering for planning/design/coding/testing/etc.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Kotlin and Typescript

• Experience with Temporal workflow orchestration

• Experience with GitHub actions

• AI Tools (eg Claude Code, OpenCode etc) for AI-based coding/engineering

Life at Versent

We're a diverse team of motivated humans who think outside the box and strive to deliver what others might consider impossible. At Versent we truly care about our people and put real focus on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration and growth.  We provide our teams with the space, trust, and support, to deliver the best work of their careers. To enable this, we have a culture that places a high value on continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.

We also offer our team:

• Flexibility: We give you the freedom to excel, providing as much autonomy and flexibility around when you work so you can manage your time in a way that best suits you to get the job done.

• Learning: We are passionate about continuous improvement and care about you investing in and developing your craft. Our Craft 180 Program is a holistic strategy for ongoing, meaningful skill and capability development with an ultimate goal to create an environment where people can learn and contribute in different ways to develop, practice and become masters of their craft.

• Access to Benefits That Fit Your Life: From salary packaging and purchased leave to novated leasing options, we offer a range of benefits designed to suit different lifestyles and priorities. There’s something for everyone.

• Health & Wellbeing Programmes: We focus on you as a whole person, with wellbeing initiatives that are to support you mentally, physically, emotionally and financially.

• Connection: Regular social activities across your team and the organisation.

• Recognition: We offer several reward & recognition programmes to acknowledge the amazing work that you do!

• Career opportunity: We provide the opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives that enable you to create a brilliant career.

At Versent, we don't adhere to a one-size-fits-all hiring strategy. We understand that you might not fulfill all the criteria for this position. Our celebration of diverse perspectives isn't just a value, it's a way to gain an edge. If you believe this opportunity is where you can thrive, don't be shy and apply! 

If you require any accommodations throughout the interview process, please get in touch with us by emailing [email protected].