Software Engineer

Job no: 505018

Work type: Ongoing Full Time

Location: Various

Categories: IT/Technology

About the ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the Role

Shape how millions of Australians discover content by building cutting-edge recommender systems that power personalised experiences across ABC News, ABC iview, and ABC listen - leveraging real-time, low-latency data pipelines at scale to deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time.

Key Accountabilities

• Demonstrate technical skills within the ABC's Digital Products department, to design and develop secure and high-performance platforms and services.
• Under broad direction, deliver quality software development and produce best possible results on code quality, efficiency, system sustainability, scalability, and security within agreed time and budget requirements.
• Create and maintain accurate documentation, including technical designs, product specifications, architecture details, support & operation guides, automated test packs with testing instructions.
• Maintain an awareness of best engineering practices in the industry and share with other team members. Working with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, and Software Engineers to drive the effort in implementation of best practices throughout Digital Product teams.
• Drive the effort in continuously strengthening the architectural foundation of the platform and drive the architectural improvements and best practices for the platform.
• Ensure separation of concerns and create layers of abstractions and re-usable components where appropriate. Adopt service-oriented architecture when designing particularly complex systems and apply industry best practices where appropriate.
• Proactively validate assumptions, properly rectify defects with due diligence and effectively minimise any band-aid solutioning that introduces technical debt.
• Apply audience-centric mindset when solving product and engineering problems.
• Actively promote the ABC values and apply all relevant workplace policies and guidelines.

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or demonstrated relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Commercial or production programming experience, in Golang (preferred) or other major languages (C, C++, C#, Java), with ability to write readable, and testable code.
• Experience with application monitoring and dashboard tools highly desirable, combined with a knowledge of how to implement application telemetry for reporting. DataDog experience preferred.
• Experience with handling database management systems, preferably with high volume of data throughput.
• Experience in API design, development, management and testing. Experience with REST and GraphQL preferred.
• Experience in developing secure and high-performance digital platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to share knowledge and communicate effectively with the team.
• Demonstrated planning and task prioritisation skills with the ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to solve the most complex problems with methodical approach and attention to details.

What's In It For You?

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC's digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia's most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop, and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on iView, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website, or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.

Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog:

We are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow.

For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved, Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via email   

 We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce

For more information on inclusive employee networks within the ABC please refer to Life Page on ABC LinkedIn. 

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