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) Tribe. The tribe, in a nutshell, 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.

We embrace hybrid working combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing.

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.

• Using your expertise in modern agile practices, you’ll contribute to planning, building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale, automating where possible.    
• 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 mentoring and coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained. 
• Develop and support solutions that deliver enhanced levels of automation and auto-remediation across our systems. Automation will be a key focus to all solutions implemented. 
• Demonstrate understanding, motivations and expertise in collaborating and developing mutual respect and trust with product managers, engineers, researchers and designers. 
• Create and enhance team culture, by sharing your knowledge and ideas, giving and receiving constructive feedback

What we are looking for?

• A Senior full stack engineer with strong frontend (preferably Angular) and backend (.NET focused) experience, with exposure to Cloud (AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Machine Learning services; familiarity with generative AI solutions using AWS Bedrock is advantageous.
• Extensive working experience with C#, .NET Core, Angular, Microservices, AWS.
• Proven track record building event-driven and distributed systems.
• Sound knowledge and experience on SQL, data storage, query optimization in SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, DynamoDB.
• Skilled at applying appropriate engineering methods (e.g. modularisation, abstractions) that make assets tractable.
• Passion for clean code, continuous improvement, and scalable design.
• Strong collaboration skills, aligned with our values: (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

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 and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.