Senior Backend Developer

The TV & Content Group is responsible for a key pillar of the Optus Strategic Plan; to excite our customers with a range of exclusive and non-exclusive content, delivered in an ever-increasing mobile and digital life and where customer experience needs to be uncompromising. The entertainment strategy will see Optus move from traditional telco to the entertainment and content provider of choice in Australia as it differentiates against other telco’s and content providers. A strong understanding of the global and local sports entertainment industry and markets along with a working understanding of navigating matrix organisations is essential to being successful in this role.

The Senior Backend Developer is a role within the TV & Content Product Development team. This group is responsible for the end to end product design and development of Optus’s TV & Content Products and Solutions. This group closely with other parts of the Optus Organisation and key partners to deliver and operate these products and solutions.

The day to day

• Contribute to backend platform development
• Detail Solution Design
• API design
• Build new API/microservices based on AWS serverless stack
• Ensure stable and high quality of each release
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Using tools to identify and fix the App exceptions and issues which are impacting customers
• Implement logging and monitoring system to monitor API and backend system

Why you are our next Senior Backend Developer

• Efficient backend developer using node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Experience in building highly secure, fault tolerant, reliable, scalable and extensible systems using cloud architecture
• Extensive experience in designing and developing API
• Microservices and serverless architecture
• Experience in REST and GraphQL
• Cloud experience ideally AWS, particularly with serverless stacks such as Appsync, API Gateway, Lambda , Dynamo DB, SQS
• Data modelling, design patterns
• Strong experience in agile and engineering best practice

The Perks!

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 14 weeks for the primary care giver
• All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue – even earn a MBA micro-credential via OptusU (University)
• Connect at work through one of our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans and Yarn Network
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

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