At hipages Group, we're committed to setting the standard for Diversity, Equality and Belonging in the tech industry and set ourselves this goal back in 2015. Today, we've achieved a Workplace Gender Equality Agency pay gap of just 2.3% (against the national average of 21.7% & tech industry average of 14.7%) with 0% same role pay gap, and a gender mix of 56:44. On top of these results, our people say the below in the past 3 years:

• 96% of us felt hipages encourages and promotes diversity of backgrounds, talents and perspectives.
• 96% of us felt welcomed when we join the company
• 94% of us believe there is a team feeling at hipages
• 93% of us said we celebrate our achievements and wins

About the role:

Being part of the Tech Uplift team gives you the chance to shape the future of hipages' software architecture, which is crucial for the company's growth and success. As a Software Engineer, you'll have the responsibility to design, develop, and deliver high-quality web and mobile applications, ensuring they meet the needs of hipages' users and contribute to the company's overall objectives. It's a role where you can make a significant impact and help drive innovation within the organization.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
• Work from home with 50/50 hybrid working model
• Cross-functional collaboration with autonomous work driven by your own innovation
• Leverage hands-on learning, coaching opportunities and workshops for continuous upskilling
• Birthday leave: An extra day of annual leave!

How you will add value:

• Raising the bar of what-good-looks-like within hipages Engineering
• Design, development, and delivery of quality, maintainable backend, web applications
• Creation of APIs which will be consumed both internally and externally
• Involvement in data-driven product experimentation
• Writing clean, scalable, testable code to support and enable the growth of the company
• Participation in discussions of system architecture

About you:

• 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Full stack background in two or more programming languages, including languages such as TypeScript, Javascript, or PHP
• Understanding of SOLID design principles, AWS or cloud environments and using AWS/cloud services
• Experience working in an agile team (Scrum or Kanban or similar)
• Experience with a modern Relational database or NoSQL databases 
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principles and practices
• Understanding of DevOps practices such as  logging, monitoring, alerting, observability
• Experience writing automated tests
• Understanding of distributed systems

About the company:

We are an Australian-owned, ASX-listed tech company and the leading online tradie marketplace in Australia. Inspired and driven by our purpose of transforming the trade industry, building better lives for everyone, hipages Group operates via three technology-enabled platforms; hipages, Tradiecore, and Builderscrack (NZ) with over 300 team members across Australia, China, Philippines and New Zealand. 

Take a look inside our home:

Ranked #3 in Best Places to Work in Australia for the past 3 years, we offer meaningful, impactful work collaborating and innovating with the best and brightest in a transparent, supportive and fast-paced work environment:

• Close-knit diverse family of bright, respectful, collaborative members who love to solve problems and jump on new opportunities
• Strengths based organisation with in house coaching to help you leverage what makes you special
• Holistic wellbeing focus with EAP access, meditation room, daily bottomless continental breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks and diversity initiatives and celebrations
• Inspiring office and location - based in the heart of Sydney CBD, only a few steps from Town Hall Station, with multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration and social areas
• Social connection focus: Friday socials, 2x big company parties per year and regular and fun teaming activities - we work hard but play hard too!

We value Diversity:

Innovation & Collaboration are core values at hipages, and are impossible to cultivate without a diverse and inclusive team. We don't expect you to be an expert in all areas, we’re more interested in who you are as a person, a team member and a leader.

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other minority groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you don't tick every single box above, but you think you would be a great fit for the role we encourage you to apply, we would LOVE to hear from you! 

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.