Backend API Engineer

Professional Services     ·      Brisbane/ Remote     ·    Full time

This role is available for applicants based in Brisbane as well as for remote candidates within Australia.

Max Kelsen is an industry-leading artificial intelligence and software engineering agency. We have been named AWS Data, Analytics and Machine Learning Partner of the Year, ranked 29th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 2020, as well as 64th overall and 13th within Australia in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies list for 2021.

Why Max Kelsen?

We are a rapidly growing company that believes in providing opportunities for career progression. Culturally we want our team to be open, honest, and challenge each other to be better. This does not mean we are perfect, but it does mean that we have a burning desire to keep on improving.

When you come on board at Max Kelsen, you will tackle challenging problems and work with interesting clients including Fortune 500 companies, often building solutions that have never been implemented before. Recently, these have included an application that helps to slow degenerative eye disease in children, and another that improves the effectiveness of skin cancer therapies.

The Role:

We are looking for a permanent Python Engineer who specialises in back-end engineering to join our growing team developing and maintaining cutting edge solutions for Max Kelsen’s enterprise clients and/or our own products. You’ll be delivering projects developed for large user bases in Python, with a focus on translating business logic into code, designing and implementing new features and deploying and maintaining production services. You will be responsible for working with frontend engineers to develop backend API endpoints, collaborating with platform/cloud engineers to provision infrastructure, and continuously improving development workflows and approaches.

Expected Skills & Experience:

• A proven track record delivering back-end services and APIs in Python, with good knowledge of frequently used libraries
• Experience developing on AWS or GCP
• Strong understanding of relational database design fundamentals and SQL
• Solid algorithm development skills and understanding of data structures and OOP
• Good solution design skills, with an emphasis on designing robust, reliable and highly available online services
• Familiarity with security best practices (authentication, key management, observability etc)
• Strong technical communication and documentation skills
• Exposure to automated unit and integration testing

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Iteration Managers / Product Owners to refine the backlog, prioritise features and plan sprints
• Experience developing infrastructure-as-code

About Max Kelsen:

Some companies are product or service centric, but we are people centric. Without our unique, diverse team we wouldn’t be able to do the work we do. Every day we strive to make Max Kelsen a place where everyone feels seen, heard and valued. Our team is encouraged to ask questions, offer solutions and be included in our journey.

In terms of working remotely or from home, we fully endorse this and support our teams to work from wherever they do their best work. We provide all the necessary equipment to work from home including monitors, keyboard, mice, and noise cancelling headphones. Our focus is delivering great outcomes for our clients, not clocking up excessive hours each week.

Enjoy an additional day of birthday leave, 2 days of charity leave to support a cause you’re passionate about, and utilise 5 days of professional development leave to ensure your career prospects continue to grow.

We value spending time together and creating strong connections, so we bring the team together a few days a month for what we call Deep Bond Days. We hold a monthly Town Hall and team BBQ at the office to ensure everyone is kept up to date on changes across the organisation. We also have an active social club with frequent lunches, talks and free social events. Previous events have included private cinema screenings, trivia nights, various sporting activities, and more.

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