Software Engineer

“Are you ready to be a big part of something big?”

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets.

A career in Technology, Product and Information will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world.

This position is within our Core Echo Team. In a nutshell Core Echo team powers all communication channels across our apps and websites. We’re the engine behind how buyers and sellers — both private individuals and dealers — connect and interact. Our systems enable seamless lead delivery, real-time messaging, and responsive interactions that directly shape customer experience and drive business outcomes.

If you're excited by the challenge of building reliable, high-scale communication systems that impact millions, we’d love to have you on board. 

All of our teams use a variation of C#, .NET core, ASP.NET MVC, Microservices and AWS. And a variation of angular or react – depending on the team.

What’s on offer

• Autonomy to choose where you work from – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• Support of a highly engaged, high-performing team. We have incredible talent in carsales that you will learn from.
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
• Regular Hackathons, endless learning and development opportunities, and a range of activities that will help support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

What you’ll do

Using your expertise in modern agile practices, you’ll contribute to planning, building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale, automating where possible.   

• Be involved in all aspects of software engineering practices including breaking down work, code review, testing, source control, build processes 
• Understand and share expertise in mentoring and coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver enhanced levels of automation and auto-remediation across our systems. Automation will be a key focus to all solutions implemented.
• Demonstrate understanding, motivations and expertise in collaborating and developing mutual respect and trust with product managers, engineers, researchers and designers.
• Create and enhance team culture, by sharing your knowledge and ideas, giving and receiving constructive feedback 

What we are looking for?

• A Senior full stack engineer with strong frontend (Angular) and Backend (.Net focused) experience with exposure to Cloud (AWS or Azure) 
• Extensive working experience with C#, .NET core, Angular JS,  Microservices, AWS.
• Experience building event-based systems using queue systems i.e. RabbitMQ.
• Sound knowledge and experience on SQL, data storage, query optimization in SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Dynamo DB.
• A passion for continuous improvement and implementing best practices in engineering 
• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously)

A few other things we want to let you know about...

carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!

We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.

Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.