Software Engineer II

About Us

Vista has long supported small businesses with high-quality print services—and now we're evolving to become their go-to partner for design and marketing at every stage.

To help achieve this, the Design Services domain is responsible for creating a wide range of easy-to-discover design offerings, guiding customers to the right solutions, and enabling smooth, effective collaboration with designers to help bring their design ideas to life. Our domain also supports the product experience for 99designs by Vista, helping to ensure consistent, successful outcomes across platforms

About the role

Do you like working across the stack to solve meaningful problems and deliver real impact? As a fullstack Software Engineer in our Melbourne-based team, you'll help shape the platform that connects small businesses with professional designers.

As part of this role you'll:

• Build and maintain features for our customer-facing platform, primarily using React, TypeScript, and Golang.
• Translate product ideas into clean, scalable solutions as part of a cross-functional team.
• Write high-quality, testable code and contribute to our engineering standards through code reviews and documentation.
• Support the full development lifecycle—from technical design to deployment and operations
• Champion a growth mindset by contributing to tooling, exploring new tech (including AI), and continuously leveling up your skill

Your Qualifications

At Vista, we value fresh ideas, diverse perspectives, and individuals who enrich our culture. No matter your background or experience, we encourage you to apply—even if you don't meet every requirement. You could be a great fit for this or other roles.

You'll bring:

• 2 to 5 years of commercial experience with languages like Golang, TypeScript, PHP, or Ruby.
• Commercial experience with React or other recent Javascript web frameworks.
• A positive approach: equally curious, collaborative, and can-do.
• Experience working in an agile-like methodology.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus skills:

• Experience with GraphQL, and Apollo.
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience working with and building AI-enabled features
• Exposure to modern data tools and workflows, like SQL, DBT and FiveTran.
• Prior success working in a remote-first environment with a demonstrated ability to leverage async practices

What we'll do for you

At Vista, we're serious about building a workplace where you can grow, thrive, and do meaningful work. We're an inclusive, values-driven community, guided by a shared set of behaviours that help us stay culturally strong and high performing.

We're proud to be an award-winning remote-first company, ranked 2nd in the 2024 AFR Best Places to Work (Manufacturing & Consumer Goods) and 1st in 2022 (Technology).

Perks & benefits currently include (but are not limited to):

Learning & Growth

• Fortnightly learning & development time
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and 360Learning
• Opportunities to attend conferences

Remote Work & Flexibility

• A monthly "remote work" allowance, to help offset the cost of remote working
• A one time remote-first new hire reimbursement, to help you set up a safe and productive home working environment
• Flexible working arrangements

Health & Wellbeing

• An external Employee Assistance Program, giving you 24/7 access to support
• 2x days of wellbeing leave, available after your first 6 months of employment (in addition to standard sick & carers leave)
• Paid birthday leave

Additional Benefits & Support

• Donation matching to a NFP or registered charity of up to $1000 per financial year
• Access to purchased leave, salary packaging, novated leasing…and more

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Vista exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique – and the Vista team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to role model and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vista, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.

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