Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Native)

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Wenco International Mining Systems (www.wencomine.com), a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM), provides industry leading, innovative technologies to customers in the mining and material movement sectors, enabling sustainable and safe operations.

Wenco has R&D offices located in Vancouver, Canada and Brisbane, Australia. This role is based in Brisbane.

As Wenco continues to build our next generation of technology, we need a wide range of professionals to help us achieve our objectives. We are currently looking for a full-time Senior Software Engineer with skills in the development, deployment and monitoring of highly available, highly robust services.

Reporting to the Research & Development Manager, the Senior Software Engineer will work as a member of an agile software team, focusing on Wenco’s next generation Fleet Management System and Autonomy platform. We are looking for someone who can provide technical leadership in a team creating high performance, business critical capabilities within the field of mining fleet management. This is an opportunity to join a significant greenfields development project at an early stage.

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Key Responsibilities

Development

• Design and implement robust, reliable and resilient software solutions using a cloud native approach
• Contribute to design and implementation across the full stack including backend web services
• Support technical services and operations teams with investigation and reproduction of customer issues

Technical leadership

• Be relentless in pursuit of continuous improvement
• Promote a culture of quality and technical excellence within the development team
• Mentor others in the team
• Work with the Product Owner to help set direction for the team
• Coordinate with globally distributed 3rd party development teams

Product development support‍

• Interface with product management/owners and developers to define and improve requirements and automated and manual test cases.

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Qualifications & Skills

• A minimum of 7 years work experience as a software engineer with at least two years in a senior role
• Extensive experience in developing containerised services for demanding environments
• Software and system design using Clean Architecture and Domain Driven Design concepts and methods
• Experience across the entire development lifecycle from concept to development, unit testing, automated functional testing, deployment and monitoring
• Commercial experience with relational and document databases
• Demonstrated experience working with Scrum practices

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Nice to Have

• Prior experience with C++
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with containerization and orchestration and management tools such as Kubernetes
• Commercial experience delivering products onto cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience and/or knowledge of the mining industry

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‍Education & Eligibility

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems/Electronics/Software Engineering or equivalent
• You must be eligible to work in Australia
• This role may require some international and domestic travel (<10%)

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Wenco advances the efficiency and safety of the world’s surface mining equipment through our fleet management systems.  We are committed to providing a stable yet exciting work place environment for individual employees to build and grow their career with the Company.

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Wenco is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
     
Disclaimer

The information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.   It is not intended as an employment contract.  Job descriptions are subject to change, which may not necessarily affect compensation.

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As our team experiences high volumes of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. To be considered, please ensure a resume is attached.  

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