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 100,000 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.

Product at Hireup

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.

The opportunity

As a senior back-end software engineer, your primary focus will be to collaborate with the other members of the Product team to discover, design and implement product features that will have significant business and user impact. Being part of a newly formed team working on greenfields development, the work will be varied and challenging.

The big picture

• Join one of Australia's fastest growing tech companies - winner of the 2018 Google.org Impact Challenge
• 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
• Demonstrate your knowledge and expertise in a highly inclusive and collaborative team

Priorities - the work

• Work collaboratively on the design and building of efficient systems and elegant abstractions; engineering for performance and maintainability
• Contribute to the re-platforming and evolution of our financial systems
• Contribute to the maintenance of our core application
• Participate in business hours support for the systems owned by the team
• Interact with other teams including Finance, Service and Customer Experience to take a cross-functional approach to building new features for our community of users in our core application
• Grow our development capabilities and help build a culture of innovation and technical excellence

Skills - the person

• Proven experience with C# and .NET, ideally with exposure to .NET core and C# 8.0
• Experience with JavaScript and Node.js
• RESTful API development experience. Bonus points for hands-on experience with event-driven architectures
• CI/CD deployments to AWS or other cloud environments
• Solid understanding of software testing and quality assurance
• Experience with various relational and non-relational databases
• Collaborative approach with experience working in an Agile team environment
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
• Strong connection to, or interest in building an understanding of the Australian disability sector and community
• Great eye for detail and a strong sense of responsibility, approaching work with high-energy, drive and internal motivation

What you’ll get from us

• Support from senior leadership and peers to empower the delivery of innovative products
• 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
• An open culture that thrives on new initiatives and ideas
• Flexible working arrangements
• Five days paid study leave (after probation)
• Four days wellbeing leave (after probation)
• Your choice of laptop and tools to get the job done

People with lived experience of disability strongly encouraged to apply.

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

For the safety of our community, it is mandatory for all Hireup HQ employees in customer-facing roles to be able to obtain a NSW Working with Children Check.