Property Exchange Australia Limited Hiring for Junior Software Engineer (Current Uni Student) – Part Time (~20 Hours a wee Job at Melbourne Full Time

Junior Software Engineer (Current Uni Student) – Part Time (~20 Hours a week)

Hey there, we’re PEXA!
We know you’ll Google us before applying, so let’s keep this brief. PEXA pioneered an electronic lodgement solution that simplifies property transactions – we’re a national online property settlements platform. Since starting life in 2010, we now employ a team of 350 people working across 5 states. Today, we help 20,000 families settle their property safely each week.

Our passion and customer focus has resulted in awards or recognition of our products, services, culture, commitment to innovation and member experience in recent years. We’re still expanding at a rapid rate and we’re constantly striving to deliver superior property experiences to all Australians.

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Why become a PEXArian?*
Great question! Being a PEXArian is so much more than just a job. We’re a passionate, motivated and unashamedly enthusiastic bunch at PEXA – we love what we do and we’re proud to admit it! Creating brilliant experiences for our members and their clients wouldn’t be possible without ensuring we deliver an exceptional employee experience.

Here’s a snapshot of what your life at PEXA could look like:

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Your growth: *
We encourage you to hit your personal and professional learning and development goals with our tailored programs and tools.

Your wellness:
We care about your holistic wellbeing – take advantage of our ergonomic environment, a fully stocked kitchen, four wellness days, a $250 wellness subsidy as well as lunch and learn sessions to support your financial wellbeing.

Your work/life blend:
We know that work is just one aspect of your life – we want to help you create your ideal work/life blend, rather than squeezing in life around work.

Your family:
With a range of benefits aimed at supporting your family including access to a subsidised school holiday program, when we say, ‘welcome to the family’, we really mean it!

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A day in the life: *

This exciting role is part of a completely new team within the organisation. You will be part of a global team that is challenging the status quo of property settlement experience in many countries.

Ideally you are studying or completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar. You have learned to code on your own and have personal projects to showcase.

As a Junior Developer you will work closely with your team of engineers, pairing across time zones writing and reviewing code.

At PEXA, we are extremely proud of our work culture and the highly motivated and skilled team we have built. In joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work on a range of initiatives and deliver the “wow” moments as the company continues to grow and expand.

What you’d do on a day to day basis:

• Design, develop and test quality applications using a variety of languages, frameworks and tools
• Work collaboratively and contribute to every stage of the software development lifecycle including technical design, pair programming, peer code review, documenting, testing and CI/CD
• Support and maintain applications in a build-and-run fashion, including automated tests, bug fixes and general maintenance
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies based on SCRUM or Kanban
• Review tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery
• Security aware – approach all engineering work with a security lens. Actively look for security vulnerabilities both in the code and when providing peer reviews
• Deliver praise and constructive feedback to your team, teammates and manager in a useful manner. Deliver feedback to business stakeholders when opportunities arise
• Mentor team members in an open and respectful manner. Seek out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability
• Help team members overcome obstacles, resolve blockers and complete work tasks
• Participate in On-call rotation and support activities
• Comply with corporate and compliance policies

Key Attributes:

• An effective communicator with good written and verbal skills to describe both technical and non-technical subjects
• Able to build relationships with your teammates, manager, and product counterparts, as well as relevant business stakeholders
• Open to share opinions and actively contribute to discussions in a respectful manner and encourage others to do the same
• Open to share knowledge with team members and encourage others to do the same
• Be customer centric, actively seek out customer driven data to help prove or disprove features hypothesis, liaise with customers to design, and improve our products
• Good creative problem-solving skills and can-do approach to work

To be considered, you need to:

• Provide Year 12 ATAR transcript and/or University transcript
• Share portfolio of coding projects (GitHub, GitLabs, etc)
• Any experience in Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript and ReactJS are considered highly advantageous.
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Design, SOLID, KISS, DRY principles
• Familiar with common data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form both technical and non-technical concepts to engineers of different levels as well as non-technical partners.

We also would value any experience with the following:

• Experience in frontend development using Typescript / React
• Experience in integrations with third party APIs
• Experience designing and building well-defined RESTful APIs for internal and external consumption
• Experience building observable systems, operating them at scale and being on-call
• Experience in user identity management and SSO
• Exposure to distributed storage and database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL)
• Exposure to event driven systems such as Kafka
• Knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes

Sounds like you?
We at PEXA are ready so if this role sounds like you apply today.

Job Type: Part-time