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Render Networks

Senior Software Engineer, Backend & API

Render Networks Melbourne Today
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Render's singular focus is best summarised by our purpose; continuously innovate and evolve technology to build networks better and connect communities. Render's geospatial network construction platform enables telecommunication network operators and construction teams to digitize the construction workflow and cut the time and cost of large-scale fiber deployment by over 20%.

Network infrastructure spend in the USA is forecast at more than $60B per annum over the next decade. So, the demand for technology-enabled efficiency and construction innovation is sizable and acute. Render's market-leading platform is experiencing rapid adoption. In partnership with majority partners IFM Investors, Render is perfectly positioned to build on existing momentum and realize significant growth.

Our entire team has a genuine passion for innovation and understands technology’s role in enabling communities to connect and thrive globally. Our shared values shape everything that we do at Render. We
cannot overstate how central the following five cultural statements are to our culture:

- Innovate for impact
- Love what we build
- Back ourselves to win
- Be the customer outcome
- Stay open and connected

The role you will play:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Render, you are a back-end focused engineer who is passionate about all aspects of excellent developer experiences including architecting and developing simple yet powerful APIs, authoring clear and informative documentation, building compelling integration applications, and interacting with internal and external customers to incorporate feedback. You will be an expert in Python code bases and demonstrate both high code velocity and quality simultaneously. The backend team consists of some of the most dynamic and tenured software engineers at Render and is motivated to deliver high quality code for internal and external integrations that support our product-led strategy.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

  • Work as a leader within the Backend team to develop a scalable, reliable, and high-performance APIs
  • Be a proactive member of system scoping discussions, technical specifications and code reviews
  • Establish and implement best practices for backend infrastructure focusing on scalability and reliability
  • Create robust test cases for new platform and API capabilities
  • Roll out changes and migrations to customers in an agile manner with backward compatibility
  • Work with and mentor fellow engineers through code reviews and technical sessions
  • Troubleshoot production issues across various service levels
  • Collaborate with engineers, technical leaders, product managers, and designers to scope out and deliver on new features and roadmap items
  • On-site mentorship and cross team collaboration sessions

    • Our ideal candidate must have:

  • A BS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or relevant engineering field
  • 6+ years of professional backend software development, including developing public-facing API products
  • Deep understanding of modern Python and the ecosystem
  • Solid understanding of the full stack of technologies needed to build and run APIs (Render’s API is built using Fast API)
  • Expertise in Restful API design and management, ensuring scalability and high performance
  • Exposure to micro services and designing webhooks or similar event based technologies
  • Proficient in SQL, advanced database design, with a strong understanding of optimisation and performance best practices
  • Experience working within AWS
  • Production experience with observability tooling, Datadog, New Relic or similar
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD methodologies and experience in building pipelines
  • Experience with agile software development methodologies
  • Motivated to develop high quality code, ability to engage with all necessary stakeholders to ensure that happens
  • Experience with gathering and documenting technical requirements and specifications
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills
  • Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular is a plus
    • What’s on offer:

    At Render, we’re ‘reimagining connection’ and enabling both our customers, and the communities they exist to serve, to reach their full potential. We do this by building world-class technology that improves: deployment speed, connectivity quality, and economic outcomes for some of society's most vulnerable families and communities.

    Engagement is important to us at Render. We strive to ensure our people remain connected in thoughtful ways:
    ● Flexible working: We treat our employees as adults. They understand the importance of coming together to collaborate, innovate, and perform and we understand the importance of providing the flexibility to work remotely, connect virtually, and at different times
    ● Professional development: In addition to having goal-oriented check-ins to ensure potential is realized and performance maximized, our culture focuses on supportive and robust development. Learning
    opportunities including: tech talks and guest speaker sessions are hosted regularly, and individual employees have customized training and development plans
    ● Collaborative culture: We know big ideas can come from anyone. So, we encourage and empower everybody to share their ideas and expertise to feel valued and to make a positive impact
    ● Technology investment: We work with leading technology platforms and enablement tools to support your success
    ● Wellbeing focus: All people perform better when they’re firing on all cylinders; health and wellness benefits are essential. Render supports all employees' wellbeing via our Employee Assistance Program
    (EAP) and we encourage people to be themselves by creating an inclusive workplace
    ● Employee Benefits: We offer competitive paid parental leave with 12 weeks of paid leave for Primary Caregivers and two weeks of paid leave for Secondary Caregivers.

    At Render we celebrate diversity and promote equal employment opportunities in the workplace. Our open, transparent, and inclusive team culture provides a license for every individual to turn ideas into impact. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Render and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!

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