Software Engineer - Intermediate / Senior (Storetech)

As a Software Engineer (Intermediate/Senior) - Storetech at Bash you’ll have a far-reaching impact on the commerce experience for both our customers and store staff. You’ll work in a dynamic cross-functional team closely aligned around the customer journey, with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects and technologies.

What Storetech does: 

The Store technology division powers in-store sales of physical & digital products through mobile point-of-sale and endless aisle capabilities utilising new and existing in-person payment capabilities - ultimately this will grow to be the next generation point of sale solution for TFG across 3,400 stores and over 15,000 end-devices.

Who you are: 

• A self-starter able to manage your tasks, removing ambiguity from your tickets with effective communication to streamline development.
• Assist your team with operational tasks related to the platform.
• Build relationships with engineers across the organisation, product managers and other colleagues.
• Influence the team to build resilient, maintainable solutions.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for critical system alerts.
• Document processes and SOPs (we use Notion)

Skills you already have:

• 5+ years experience writing backend code and/or doing some frontend work on web and/or mobile applications
• We primarily use Golang for our backend services, with a Typescript used for our Backend-for-frontend service.
• In-depth knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms and an interest in distributed systems
• Experience in a scripting language
• Great problem-solving skills
• A passion for observability and monitoring of the services you build
• Experience owning the deployment process of your services and applications in Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes
• Ability to work effectively across teams to deliver results, with good verbal and written communication skills

Nice but not required: 

• BSc Computer Science or equivalent is encouraged (strong work experience can fill this gap)
• Experience with Retool for building support-centric internal applications
• Experience with IoT technologies like MQTT/WebSockets etc.

This job is for you if you are:

• A team player who is always ready to support and collaborate.
• A data driven decision maker with strong opinions and a bias for action.
• A strong communicator who works well with others, and welcomes feedback.
• Motivated leader who takes initiative and excels by taking ownership.
• Knowledgeable about architectural patterns for systems and code.
• Genuinely passionate about technology and problem solving.

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