Mid level Back-End Developer
Australian Payments Plus, Australia
Job Description
We’re Cowry, the digital experiences team within Australian Payments Plus. Given we’re relatively new here, let’s start by introducing ourselves. AP+ is a family of cornerstone businesses you’d know; BPAY, eftpos, NPP, and while you haven't heard of ‘Cowry’ you probably have heard of a little digital wallet with over 1.5M customers called Beem which is just one of the products powered by us.
Our team love to explore new ground and challenge the status quo in the pursuit of fintech excellence. We live at the intersection of next-generation technology and traditional payments infrastructure, launching products from the ground up. Our mission is pretty simple; keep Australian payments open, keep businesses thriving and go beyond money.
Role @ Cowry
We’re adding a Mid Level Back-End Developer to our already thriving team. As a Mid Level Back-End Developer at Cowry you’ll make meaningful contributions to the function and the team by extending and maintaining features from our mission-critical applications as well as collaborating with other engineers on designing and delivery of new features.
Life @ Cowry
We strive to create an environment where every member of the team feels empowered to make a decision for the benefit of our customers.
At Cowry, a growth mindset is fundamental to success. We are obsessed with data. It’s how we learn, ask better questions and improve. It allows us to take small bets, learn quickly (often by failing) and dust ourselves off. We believe that to fully embrace experimentation and failure as part of learning, it requires a culture where everyone feels safe enough to push beyond their own fears.
You’ll thrive in Cowry if:
- You have an agile, entrepreneurial mindset amp; thrive in an environment where you can reimagine your contribution each and every day
- The idea of working in a start-up-esq environment excites you (but you also sleep well at night knowing your job is secure)
- You love to test the boundaries of your abilities and champion your colleagues to do the same
- Your job title is just a point of reference for your LinkedIn profile, it doesn’t define who you really are
- You’re curious at heart, always asking questions and looking for ways to improve
Cowry may not be the place for you if:
- You thrive when working in a hierarchical clunky environment
- Your job title means the world to you and defines who you are
- You love to work in pre-defined silo’s
- To you, team amp; company culture is two dimensional
Day to day here’s what you can expect do to;
- Liaising with security consultants to ensure the platform is secure
- Collaborate with stakeholders (Technology, Risk, Product) on delivery of new features
- Maintaining and developing new backend services
- Participate in technical discovery and design
- Identify technology improvement and transformation opportunities to enhance customer service, reduce operating costs, and maximise speed of implementation
We’d love to hear from you if you have;
- 2+ years of development experience in Javascript (Typescript preferred)
- Experience building rest APIs and microservices
- Familiarity with developing serverless applications in AWS
- Experience with maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Good problem-solving skills, who view coding as a creative outlet
- The ability to work independently, and to see where their work fits into the bigger picture
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- The ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical team members, especially remotely
What Next?
For us, it’s more important that you are a genuinely decent human, as we believe people can pick up any skill with the right support amp; mindset.
We consciously and intentionally hire from diverse professional and personal backgrounds. We work hard to build a wonderfully diverse team of individuals, measured not by numbers but by contribution and diversity of thinking.
- Submit your application for the role along with any other materials you’d want to share about yourself as a person or work you’re proud of
- If we like your vibe, you’ll get a call from our Talent rep to make sure we’re on the same page about salary and role expectations
- Once we get the admin out of the way, you’ll get a time booked in to meet the hiring manager so they can get to know you better
- If you’ve made it this far (congrats!) you’ll have a final informal chat with the head of department or CEO
Either way, expect to get honest feedback from us along the way as we value it highly.
The AP+ team values unique talents amp; we encourage applications f