Senior Software Engineer

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small, small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other.

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we’re transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve and we’re not afraid to take bold steps to get there.

A career in Software Engineering will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure) team. The team focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to buy and sell their inventory. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise their online customer interaction and sale funnels.

What’s on offer

• Recognition as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer.
• A highly engaged, collaborative team where you’ll learn from exceptional talent.
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave.
• Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health.

What you’ll be doing

As the Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a passionate engineering squad focused on building products that delivery quality solutions to our customers. Working closely with skilled colleagues in Engineering, Product, and Design.

• Apply AI-first engineering practices to deliver great products
• Build smart, data-driven SaaS capabilities that help Dealers make better decisions - from inventory acquisition to optimisation, to lead management and conversion
• Design and evolve systems that are modular, well-instrumented and scalable, ensuring our solutions are resilient and aligned to real commercial outcomes
• Be involved in all aspects of software engineering practices including breaking down work, code review, testing, source control, build processes.
• Understand and share expertise in coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained
• Own what you build, from idea to impact, and being accountable for how it performs in the real world

What we’re looking for

• Senior full‑stack engineering experience, with strong frontend (preferably Angular) and backend (.NET focused) experience, with exposure to Cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Deep experience building scalable, distributed systems, ideally event-driven, with a strong understanding of how systems behave in production
• Strong proficiency in C# / .NET, modern frontend frameworks, and cloud-native development
• Solid data fundamentals, comfortable working with relational and NoSQL data stores, and able to design for performance, scale and efficient querying
• Applies sound engineering principles (e.g. modularisation, abstraction, separation of concerns) to build systems that are maintainable and evolvable over time
• A mindset for clean, high-quality code, with a focus on continuous improvement and scalable design
• Effective at collaborating across Product, Design and Data to deliver meaningful outcomes

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

So come join us - because every role plays a vital part in our journey toward something big!