What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Software Engineer position at Megaport?
About Megaport
Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. We're global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS), changing the way businesses reach the cloud. We're also a leading partner to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. We’re a lean, high-achieving team made up of over 300 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, employees are spread out across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and fun.
Our Team Culture
Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture, and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated, adaptable, persistent, hard-working, and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this, in turn with a global vision, forms a commitment to each other, our customers, and shareholders alike.
The Role
You’re a software engineer who is well respected by your peers, and collaborates and communicates effectively. You are familiar with Spring and enjoy taking ownership over a product. That means, paying down technical debt, thinking of the users (internal and external), and solving interesting technical problems. Our main code base is in Java / Spring MVC but we’re actively moving to Kotlin / Spring Boot. We’re a tech company, our product is in the technical space and we need great engineers to make a great product! Interest in advanced networking is a bonus!
\n- As a Software Engineer at Megaport, you'll contribute to the evolution of our core business systems. Your responsibilities will include:
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless customer integration. Ensure API scalability, security, and adherence to best practices.
- Proactively manage and reduce technical debt while optimising system architecture, ensuring stability and performance.
- Actively participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Applying and promoting best practices and design patterns within our engineering teams.
- Drive the complete lifecycle of small feature development, from initial concept and design through to implementation and successful delivery.
- Participate actively in Megaport's agile development process and drive continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- 3 years of software development experience in Java - OO design and associated design patterns.
- Experience in building services and tools in the context of web applications.
- Accomplished in problem solving and troubleshooting.
- Strong data modelling skills with experience working with relational databases using SQL, ideally Hibernate.
- Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills.
- An ability to reason logically, question appropriately and present technical information clearly and concisely.
- Bonus: Experience with network (IP routing, MPLS).
- Bonus: Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP etc).
- Bonus: Experience with Kotlin, JavaScript, Python.
- Flexible working environments
- Birthday leave
- 4 weeks annual Leave & purchased annual leave program
- Generous study and training allowance development opportunities 5 days paid study leave
- Motivated team of industry experts &new talent
- Health & wellness program
- Opportunities for career growth and potential for global intra-company transfers
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If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at Careers@megaport.com
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