ABOUT US

The Missing Link has been operating in Australia for over 26 years, helping businesses achieve their goals through IT transformation with our core offerings; IT & Cloud, Cyber Security and Automation.

Today, The Missing Link is one of the most awarded IT companies in Australia – recognised mainly for our people and processes. With over 180+ staff and 25+ different countries represented in our business, we’ve cultivated a respectful and positive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered. We pride ourselves on our training and development that ensures our staff can grow their careers alongside our growing business.

Our people are our difference, and we are always looking for amazing talent to join our team. If you’re looking for a highly successful, inclusive and fast-growing workplace, we’d like to talk to you. The Missing Link has been operating in Australia for over 26 years, helping businesses achieve their goals through IT transformation with our core offerings; IT & Cloud, Cyber Security and Automation.

The Role

We are looking for a motivated L2 Support Engineer with at least 2 years' experience providing Level 2 support who is ready to take their technical skills and client-focus to the next level by joining our growing Support Engineering team. To be successful in this role you are passionate about technology and love to work closely with colleagues and clients to deliver an exceptional 'service experience'. You understand the value and importance of IT to an organisation and can demonstrate the ability to analyse complex challenges to identify and implement a solution. You are well-organised, reliable and thrive working autonomously or in a team environment.

• Good knowledge of:
• Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud platform
• Teams and SharePoint
• Active Directory
• Excellent time management and organisation skills
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team
• Excellent professional communication skills - face-to-face, phone and email
• Excellent customer service skills and a strong sense of empathy
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to think outside of the box
• Hands-on experience with Windows Server and basic roles
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Excellent knowledge of Windows 10 and Office Suite
• Good knowledge of basic network troubleshooting
• Commercial awareness

Whilst not essential, any of the following boxes you can tick earn you bonus points

• Experience working for a Managed Service Provider (MSP)
• Relevant bachelor's degree level qualification
• Any certifications
• ITIL certification
• MacOS knowledge
• Technologies:
• Hypervisor (VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V)
• Veeam Backup and Replication
• Email Security (Mimecast etc.)
• Sophos Endpoint Protection or XG Firewall
• Microsoft SCCM or Azure Intune
• Defence force experience is desirable

A great company culture is very important to The Missing Link. Keeping everyone happy is one of our top priorities.

Here are some of the best bits about working at The Missing Link and some the ways we try and maintain our staff happiness levels. Plus you get all the perks involved in working at our clients site.

• Supportive environment
• Training / mentoring programs
• Regular, fun social events
• Workplace giving program, including paid volunteer days
• Great bonus structure

Description

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

Working as a Desktop Support Engineer you will be responsible for the provision of all aspects of End User Services to Datacom’s customers. Aligned to our customers business requirements, we provide tailored maintenance services, hardware and software break/ fix support, remote support, software deployment and relocation services.

This role will be based in Adelaide and require Australian Citizenship due to customer requirements.

What you’ll do

As a Desktop Support Engineer, you will be accountable for, but not limited to:

• Providing excellent technical support in a high-paced environment where customer satisfaction is paramount.
• Assisting new users with their IT hardware collection and setup.
• Ensuring new equipment, such as Laptops and Mobile phones, are up to date and deployment ready prior to release to customers
• Recording all customer contacts in the appropriate ITSM tool
• Keeping commitments to customers with regard to progress updates
• Using tools and processes to deliver services to customers in accordance with SLAs
• Proactively manage and maintain customer infrastructure as directed
• Initiate and drive service and process improvement
• Follow best practice methodologies and adhere to recognised ITIL processes (EG: Change/release)

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated the following:

• Exceptional customer experience with regard to end user services
• The ability to prioritise work to ensure achievement of all service level agreements
• Sound knowledge of Laptops, Desktop PC's, printers, media and audio-visual equipment, BYOD and mobility
• You will bring excellent verbal and written communication and have the ability to articulate technical information to the target audience. Your professional customer service will be second to none, and you will have the ability to work autonomously with excellent time management.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

The Role

The team delivers a range of different projects working with funding agencies, national and local governments, highways authorities and private organisations. ​

Work on projects from initial concept through to construction and operation, fulfilling diverse design, project management, stakeholder engagement, business innovation as well as technical and site assurance Role.  Every project faces unique challenges, and we take pride in developing inspired, sustainable solutions for our clients. Our collaborative and integrated approach allows us to create, rehabilitate and maintain many of the world’s iconic roadways.​

For all other Graduate opportunities, please visit our opportunities document.

Our Graduate Program

Our Growing Professional Skills (GPS) graduate program is designed to help you bridge the gap between formal education and the workplace. The program is spread across two years, drawing on a range of personal development activities, exposure to other graduates and business leaders, and a range of topics designed to grow your business and professional skills.

Along with local site visits, technical seminars, mentoring, and internal and external training, AECOM connects you with leading local and global networks that help you learn, grow, and develop.

As an added incentive, your involvement in the GPS program is fully endorsed for those seeking Professional accreditation. If you decide to do additional studies, we will help you examine your options and identify areas of specialisation to support you in your career.

Who are we?  

Humanforce provides the market leading, employee-centered, intelligent, and compliant HCM suite for frontline and flexible workforces, offering highly configurable, best-in-one WFM, HR and Payroll - without compromise. Humanforce was founded in 2002 and has built strong foundations with our 2300-strong customer base and over 600,000 users across a wide range of industries, including aged care, childcare, hospitality, retail, local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. 
 
Our vision is to make work easier and life better by focusing on the needs and fulfilment of frontline workers, and the efficiency and optimisation of businesses. 
Humanforce solutions are designed to help clients drive engagement and productivity for their frontline workforce, with an intelligent, cloud-based platform for employers and managers, and a user-friendly mobile app, specifically designed for employees in their flow of work. 
 
We are on a mission to deliver an exceptional employee experience for workforces by offering a compelling employee value proposition and great work effectiveness through connection, development and wellbeing while delivering intelligent manager automation to drive cost optimisation, increased productivity, and growth, and enhance compliance confidence for businesses as they adapt to evolving challenges and objectives. 

Who you are?  

This team is a feature enablement team. You will work on features that span across multiple domains and hard problems that often otherwise fall through the gaps. Think architecture upgrades, API modularisation, data modelling and layer changes! You'll work closely with our Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager, alongside our newly formed team.

If you are passionate about solving problems that aren't (as such) features but more so developer tooling and experiences that improve the overall scalability of our products, then this could be a perfect role for you!

What you’ll do?

• Full Stack Development: Write high-quality quality maintainable and readable code across our services. Contributing to the team's incremental feature delivery in an Agile environment.
• Pair and Learn: Program side by side with team members on tough problems, and clarify understanding with insightful code reviews.
• Tackle Tech Debt: Dedicate time to uplift legacy areas of the codebase, keep on top of configuration and stop dependencies from going stale.
• Performance Tuning: Monitoring and responding to solve scaling, security, and performance issues as the system evolves to meet its changing needs
• Code Quality Enhancement: Elevate our codebase's quality by crafting Unit, Module, and Functional automated tests.
• Bug Resolution: Identify and resolve bugs and defects to maintain a seamless user experience.
• Scrum Involvement: Attend scrum ceremonies and actively participate in shaping our technical Roadmap
• Promote Best Practice: Provide recommendations for process improvement and technical innovation.
• Documentation and Workshops: Create documentation and deliver workshops to share knowledge on delivered features

What you’ll need?

• A deep understanding of .NET, covering both Framework and Core, showcasing your expertise.
• A strong command of Entity Framework, ensuring efficient data interactions.
• An affinity for Angular Version 13 and beyond
• A keen grasp of SQL Server, Version 2019 and newer, for effective data management.
• An adventurous spirit ready to navigate the world of Amazon Web Services (AWS) fearlessly.
• A curiosity for application toolchains, experience with package managers, especially upgrade processes desirable.
• A process-driven approach capable of creating workflows and automation with your DevOps skills.
• An eye for testing using your prowess in automation tools like PyTest and Selenium, to turn time-consuming manual tests into automated release confidence.

Our values  

• We are bold  
• We are all in  
• We are customer-obsessed  
• We do what we say  
• We are good humans  

Our approach to flexibility  

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms. 

Benefits 

• A flexible working environment  
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company   
• A focus on development with access to IntelliHR learning
• Perks and rewards through Bonusly and Thrive 
• Paid parental leave and Quarterly Wellbeing Days   
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)   
• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people   
• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work! 

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.  

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant

About Us:

Client is the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. Client helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens.

Client has made few major acquisitions last few years as a part of strategic business transformations. Global Business Operations is a corporate team that oversees and manages company-wide processes for sales enablement, operations and compensations. Major business units have their own Business Operations who work closely with Global Business Operations.

About The Client

The client provides financial crime prevention, compliance and risk management products and services to the financial services industry and is a Market Leader in these areas.

Main Responsibilities and Deliverables:

·        Develop/Configure software feature(s) according to design document & enterprise software standards.

·        Work in multi-disciplinary environment with Architects and Business Analysts using waterfall and agile project methodologies

·        Planning and Performing Unit and functionality testing to ensure fit to design.

·        Customer interaction for any technical queries and discussions

·        Supporting client in performing user acceptance testing

·        Provide suggestions to address client requirements while staying within product framework

·        Interface independently with various R&D and PS Groups and with Customer Support.

·        May occasionally need to work on client site And/Or in different time zone

Experience: 4 to 7 Years 

Qualifications / Education:     

·        BE/B.Tech with Practical relevant experience/knowledge

·        High level English (verbal & written)

·        Proven experience in operating within a global environment

·        Experience working in a complex matrix environment

 Professional Capabilities            

·        Proven and Hands on experience in PL/SQL, SQL and Databases (MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.)

·        Hands on experience Unix commands and shell scripting.

·        Experience of working in AWS environment will be an advantage

·        Financial market compliance domain experience will be an added advantage   

·        Actimize (AIS/RCM/UDM) knowledge/Development experience is a plus

·        Experience in web applications: J2EE, web & application servers will be an advantage,

·        Experience in HTML, JavaScript & CSS will be an advantage

·        Analyzes information and deduces conclusions within the wider professional space

·        Familiar with coding concepts for ensuring high scalability, multi-user, secured coding

·        Experience in Financial Market Compliance / Communication Surveillance Solution would be an advantage

 Personal Leadership     

·        Good verbal and written communication skills

·        Ability to work independently & complete complex tasks.

·        Problem solving skills, analytical mind with high ability for self-learning are essential

·        Actively seeks information, and shares knowledge with others

·        Actively engages others in work done, to expand and broaden professional domain knowledge and know-how

·        Has high-attention to details and works well in a dynamic and stressful environment

·        Mentors junior members of the team

·        Performs code reviews

Business Impact

·        Holds full domain responsibility

·        Displays conceptual thinking and professional discretion in area of responsibility

·        Applies independent judgment

·        Able to resolve problems of moderate scope which requires an analysis based on a review of a variety of factors

Who are we?  

Humanforce provides the market leading, employee-centred, intelligent, and compliant HCM suite for frontline and flexible workforces, offering highly configurable, best-in-one WFM, HR and Payroll - without compromise. Humanforce was founded in 2002 and has built strong foundations with our 2300-strong customer base and over 600,000 users across a wide range of industries, including aged care, childcare, hospitality, retail, local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. 
 
Our vision is to make work easier and life better by focusing on the needs and fulfilment of frontline workers, and the efficiency and optimisation of businesses. 
Humanforce solutions are designed to help clients drive engagement and productivity for their frontline workforce, with an intelligent, cloud-based platform for employers and managers, and a user-friendly mobile app, specifically designed for employees in their flow of work. 
 
We are on a mission to deliver an exceptional employee experience for workforces by offering a compelling employee value proposition and great work effectiveness through connection, development and wellbeing while delivering intelligent manager automation to drive cost optimisation, increased productivity, and growth, and enhance compliance confidence for businesses as they adapt to evolving challenges and objectives. 

The Team

The Humanforce Integrations team is a development team that looks after the 3rd party integrations with MYOB, PayrollMetrics, Xero. We are an essential and collaborative team that often works on greenfield projects with focus on research & development and is critical to the ongoing success of the Humanforce business and its customers.

Who you are?  

You'll join our integrations squad as a Software Engineer, playing an important role to continue building key integrations for our customers. You'll work closely with senior engineers on building best practices across the team to ensure we continue to build seamless integrations across our multiple product suites and third-party integrations.

This role has a direct business and customer impact, ensuring every customer can seamlessly interact with our entire product suite. You are someone who is passionate about building greenfield projects, enjoys discovery work and thrives on collaborative working, across multiple business groups. You will have the opportunity to work with internal stakeholders for integration changes and releases. This includes the product, security and DevOps teams. As well as liaising with other engineering teams.

Join us at Humanforce, where your expertise will redefine work and workforce management!

What you will do?

• Full Stack Development: Write high-quality quality maintainable and readable code across our services. Contributing to the team's incremental feature delivery in an Agile environment.
• System Design: Build designs and architectural approaches on how to integrate with our complex product suites.
• Pair and teach: Program side by side with team members on tough problems, and clarify understanding with insightful code reviews.
• Tackle Tech Debt: Dedicate time to uplift legacy areas of the codebase, keep on top of configuration and stop dependencies from going stale.
• Code Quality Enhancement: Elevate our codebase's quality by crafting Unit, Module, and Functional automated tests.
• Documentation and Workshops: Support junior developers on best practices when creating documentation.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Product Managers to understand requirements and execute a strategy that aligns with the product roadmap.

• 4+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Essential tech experience - C#, .Net Framework and experience Cloud Development tooling, preferably AWS
• Experience working on 3rd party integrations
• Managing production issues and troubleshooting in a distributed computing environment
• Experience in managing complex releases to multiple environments in the cloud

Nice to have skills?

• Experience working across integrations with MYOB, Xero or other key accounting softwares
• Experience working with HCM, WFM or Payroll platforms

Our values  

• We are bold  
• We are all in  

• We are customer-obsessed  
• We do what we say  
• We are good humans  

Our approach to flexibility  

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms. 

Benefits 

• A flexible working environment  
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company   
• A focus on development with access to Go1   
• Paid parental leave and Quarterly Wellbeing Days   
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)   
• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people   
• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work! 

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.  

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to responding to every applicant. 

We are seeking a diligent and detail-oriented Location Confirmation Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for confirming the location of various buildings in the city center using a smartphone camera and our proprietary app. Your primary task will be to capture and upload photos of a significant number of buildings, ensuring accurate documentation of their locations.

• Collect Name, Position (lat/lon or geotag), Attributes (TBD)
• Collect address number and its position (geotag)
• Collection (surveying) street level imagery. Just driving selected areas in a city and shooting with a smartphone (or a dedicated camera) mounted in-car
• Collection of street level images. Easily move around selected areas of the city and take pictures with your smartphone

• How to collect - by walk, bike, car, etc. - of your choice, by your car (gas will be compensated additionally)
• Smartphone, internet connection
• English Intermediate
• Common computer literacy

• Flexible schedule
• Payment for fuel
• Ready to take on a student
• Can be combined with main job
• Competitive salary

We are seeking Senior Software Engineer/s with a focus on the backend (Ideally with solid AWS experience) who are excited to help us expand our product offerings. You will be given the opportunity to work on some Greenfield projects and modern technology.

You will also work collaboratively with some great engineers in other areas such as our Platform and SRE teams to make sure our DXP services perform and scale well.

What do I need?

• Commercial experience building and maintaining Typescript/JavaScript applications
• Experience working with JS frameworks like React and NodeJS
• Exposure to building or using either dedicated-backend or public APIs
• Experience working with relational databases would be highly beneficial
• Experience working with CI/CD or at-least exposure to and a desire to gain more experience

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS (CDK, CloudFormation) would be beneficial or IAC concepts

Location

• This position is open to candidates in the eastern states of Australia with full working rights (we are unable to sponsor for this position)

The Squiz product team is expanding as it works to deliver a cloud-based digital experience platform (DXP). Squiz DXP (Digital Experience Platform) is a software solution that helps businesses to create and manage digital experiences for their customers. It provides a wide range of tools and features that can be used to build and maintain websites, mobile apps, and other digital channels.

Who we are:

Squiz has helped organisations improve the services they offer online and, in turn, the lives of the people that matter to them; building portals for students, websites for citizens, intranets for employees, and much more.

Headquartered in Australia, we have teams and customers across the globe, with offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Right now, we are in the midst of a very important and exciting point in our journey as we transform our business into a SaaS Digital Experience Platform product organisation, putting the power of the products we’ve used to deliver amazing experiences into the hands of our customers.

Why work for Squiz?

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ll ever meet: we are made up of a diverse range of passionate people who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we enjoy what we do.

Squiz has a flexible working policy: We encourage our teams to embrace flexibility in how their team members manage where and how they work. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do; all while checking our egos at door, not taking ourselves too seriously and having fun along the way.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Global Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant

#LI-Hybrid

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Data @ Open

At Open, we exist because we believe that Insurance is fundamentally an information and data business. Creating technology so that our customers can enjoy intuitive insurance experiences based on smart use of information and data is at the core of Open.

Our Data team thrive on solving problems to revolutionise insurance and have a ‘no excuses’ attitude when it comes to putting our customers first. Our high performing team specialise in Python, Snowflake, Airbyte and the latest AWS tools to support development.

What you'll do

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be Open’s first data engineer on the ground in London and lead our expansion into the UK and Europe.

As aSenior Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the following:

• Evaluate data needs and objectives across the business
• Analyse and organise raw data to build data systems and pipelines
• Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modelling by building algorithms and prototypes
• Combine raw information from different sources, data acquisition
• Develop analytical tools and programs
• Develop and maintain data systems (data warehouse, data lake etc.) and pipelines
• Monitor data pipelines ensuring performance metrics remain within acceptable limits, and continuously improving their efficiency, quality and transparency
• Develop and contribute to data pipeline documentation and guidelines
• Develop and manage external data feeds for partners in the UK
• Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and various stakeholders to deliver business and customer value each step of the way

As part of this role, we will support you to relocate to London, UK after spending your first 4-6 months with the team in Sydney preparing for Open’s launch into the UK and Europe.

This role is not just about technical expertise; it's about joining a team that's committed to transforming the insurance industry, making it simpler, more transparent, and accessible to everyone.

What you’ll bring

Ideally you will have:

• 5+ years of experience working with data
• Working experience with higher-level languages, Python and SQL. 
• Good understanding of building ETL/ELT data pipelines and data warehousing/reporting techniques
• Experience in data platform development on AWS. Data-driven, and a robust data backbone is necessary for our systems. We build on core AWS services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SageMaker, StepFunctions, etc. and also on Snowflake
• Hands on experience with SQL database design
• Exposure to a wide variety of data sources beyond SQL Database, like accessing data through APIs, files, data streams etc.
• Experience in data modelling and domain-driven design
• Solid understanding of software engineering practices, design patterns and architecture paradigms and the ability to impart this knowledge onto those in your team
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
• Great communication skills, especially in explaining complex data problems and solutions. Also be a fantastic listener and a team player with a positive attitude
• Creativity and curiosity. Never stop learning new things and we love to be surprised with innovative solutions

Role location

This role will start in Sydney, Australia, with expectation to transition to London, UK after 4-6 months. Open will support the visa sponsorship needed for this relocation. For the successful candidate, please keep this in mind.

Why Open?

Open is on a mission to provide the best insurance experiences, at the best price, for the world. Insurance is one of the world’s least digitally mature industries - for years it’s remained confusing, paper-based and heavily intermediated. We launched in 2016 to build a global, AI-powered platform that digitises the entire insurance process, making it transparent, less costly and more reliable.

It's an exciting time to join Open and be part of a tech scale-up. We provide our team with:

• Highly competitive compensation, including share options - we believe in paying people what they're worth and having everyone in our company share in our success
• High levels of autonomy and trust so you can do your best work
• Growth opportunities internally - as you grow, your role can too
• Flexible working - we are about impact, not time at your desk.
• We encourage freedom and responsibility, including the ability to work from anywhere
• Annual allowance for professional development - use it towards a gym membership, professional coaching, a conference. Whatever matters most to you

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. Our culture is truly open, we're continuously challenging each other to live our values, and aren't afraid to raise questions when we fall short. Most importantly, Open is for those that want to create change and have an impact. If that sounds like you, apply for this role and let's build the future of insurance together.

Engineering @ Open

At Open, we exist because we believe that Insurance does not have to be seen as complicated or costly. Creating technology so our customers can enjoy smart and intuitive insurance experiences is at the core of Open’s development philosophy. When we do this, we’re building modern infrastructure that brings the wonder into insurance.

With a truly end-to-end approach, we build all of our own technology. Our engineering team alongside our AI and data science team aim to give customers better insurance prices. We create the insurance experience our customers deserve, not the one they expect. The team specialises in Python (Django) and Angular, and uses the latest AWS tools to support development.

What you’ll do 

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to be Open’s first engineer on the ground in London and lead our expansion into the UK and Europe.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be a member of our Technology leadership team, reporting to the GM of Technology. You will bring core technology and domain expertise to inform technical strategy and architecture vision. You will lead and drive adoption of best practices that enable technology teams to thrive. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, and various stakeholders to deliver business and customer value each step of the way. You will grow engineers in their career, and shape the future of our technology platform and roadmap. In this role, you will:

• Design and implement solutions to complex and novel problems, including adoption of new tools, migration to new platforms, remediate critical/wide-impacting issues, and remove obsolete systems and code.
• Review code and technical designs from across technology teams, championing and establishing well-architected patterns and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement and technical uplift initiatives for the technology organisation.
• Provide expert consultancy across the business, with a particular focus on scalable, reliable, performant, and secure cloud application solutions.
• Develop and evolve Open’s technical roadmap, documentation quality, and platform health keeping both present and future business needs in mind.
• Proactively collaborates with others to share knowledge and resolve issues.
• Identifies, gains support and ensures execution of technical direction and strategy for Open’s technology teams.
• Keep abreast of technology, security and privacy trends to lead informed evolutions of Open’s technology and architecture strategy.

As part of this role, we will support you to relocate to London, UK after spending your first 4-6 months with the team in Sydney preparing for Open’s launch into the UK and Europe.

What you’ll bring

• Deep knowledge in Python (Django), AWS Cloud infrastructure, and Docker.
• Experienced in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and Git+ workflows to support code review and release of software.
• Proven experience in architectural patterns across products that contain Microservices and Message/Event Driven Architecture.
• Expert practitioner of SOLID principles, and can coach their adoption through code reviews.
• Strong experience operating distributed production systems at scale, with well-placed instrumentation and excellent debugging capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or a related field is preferred, but not necessary.
• Experienced collaborating effectively with teams across time zones, and geographics. 

• 1+ year of experience as a people manager in a product-led company.

Role location

This role will start in Sydney, Australia, with expectation to transition to London, UK after 4-6 months. Open will support the visa sponsorship needed for this relocation.

Why Open?

Open is on a mission to provide the best insurance experiences, at the best price, for the world. Insurance is one of the world’s least digitally mature industries - for years it’s remained confusing, paper-based and heavily intermediated. We launched in 2016 to build a global, AI-powered platform that digitises the entire insurance process, making it transparent, less costly and more reliable.

It's an exciting time to join Open and be part of a tech scale-up. We provide our team with:

• Highly competitive compensation, including share options - we believe in paying people what they're worth and having everyone in our company share in our success
• High levels of autonomy and trust so you can do your best work
• Growth opportunities internally - as you grow, your role can too
• Flexible working - we are about impact, not time at your desk.
• We encourage freedom and responsibility, including the ability to work from anywhere
• Annual allowance for professional development - use it towards a gym membership, professional coaching, a conference. Whatever matters most to you

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. Our culture is truly open, we're continuously challenging each other to live our values, and aren't afraid to raise questions when we fall short. Most importantly, Open is for those that want to create change and have an impact. If that sounds like you, apply for this role and let's build the future of insurance together.