Founded in early 2015 and based in Sydney, Hireup is a trusted online platform and community for people with disability and their families to find, hire and manage support workers that fit their needs and share their interests. Whether it’s support with getting to work, catching a local footy game or taking the scenic route, Hireup gives people the tools needed to live the most flexible, seamless and supported life possible. With over 65,000 registered users in communities all across Australia, Hireup is a national network of local supports. As a purpose-led organisation, we promote a culture defined by its humanity, curiosity and creativity, and allow this to infuse our services, product and people.

At Hireup, we understand the important role technology, and specifically, digital product plays in connecting people. For the tech team at Hireup, it’s not only about creating the most elegant, intuitive, accessible and powerful peer-to-peer platform in Australia, but to ensure we are building an efficient and lean model that maximises choice and control for both Australians living with a disability and their support workers.

As a software engineer, your primary focus will be to support and collaborate with other members of the product team to discover, design and implement product features that will have significant business and user impact. From developing new features in our core application, to building our much anticipated mobile apps or implementing scalable internal financial systems to support our growth, the work will be as varied as it is challenging.

The big picture

• Join one of Australia's fastest growing tech companies - winner of the 2018 Google.org Impact Challenge and 2017 Deloitte Tech Fast 50
• Make meaningful social impact through your work whilst being a part of a driven, specialist product team with the potential to become leaders in disability tech space
• Develop your knowledge and expertise in a highly inclusive and collaborative team

Priorities - the work

• Contribute to our re-platforming efforts as we migrate from a monolithic Angular 1.6 app to a more microservice based architecture utilising MongoDB, Node, GraphQL and React
• Interact with other teams including finance, HR and community development to take a cross-functional approach to building new features for our community of users
• Design and build efficient and reusable abstractions and systems; engineering for performance and maintainability
• Implement intuitive and accessible user interfaces
• Grow our development capabilities and help build a culture of innovation and technical excellence

Skills - the person

• Relevant IT degree and minimum 3 - 5 years of work experience in an engineering role
• Experience with JavaScript; familiarity with TypeScript a bonus
• For people looking to work on the front end, experience in developing single page applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (ideally utilising front-end frameworks such as Angular or React) will be highly regarded
• For people looking for a back-end role, experience in various database technologies such as SQL and/or document-based will be highly regarded
• Collaborative approach with experience working in an Agile team environment
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
• Great eye for detail and strong sense of responsibility
• Strong connection to, or interest in building an understanding of the Australian disability sector and community
• Approach work with high-energy, drive and internal motivation
• Exhibit adaptability, resilience, transparency, trustworthiness, passion and innate curiosity
• Strong connection to, or interest in building an understanding of the Australian disability sector and community
• Approach work with high-energy, drive and internal motivation
• Exhibit adaptability, resilience, transparency, trustworthiness, passion and innate curiosity

What you’ll get from us

• The chance to be part of a meaningful challenge and witness the positive social impact of your work
• Exciting and challenging projects that will push your technical skills and provide ample opportunity for personal and professional growth
• Flexible working arrangements
• An open culture that thrives on new initiatives and ideas
• Your choice of laptop and tools to get the job done

The position is full-time and the salary and role seniority will be dependent on experience.