Senior Platform Engineer

Join our internal Platform Team, a collaborative group of multi-disciplinary experts dedicated to revolutionizing our tech stack and infrastructure. As an internal-facing delivery team, our mission is clear: accelerate application development, reduce operational complexity, and enhance time-to-market for our growing engineering department.

As a Software Engineer on the Platform Team, you'll thrive in a diverse and dynamic environment working alongside seasoned professionals, including senior developers, tech leads, and architects. 

Your primary responsibilities include hands-on development, rigorous testing, and continuous improvement of our platform infrastructure. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop robust, high quality software meeting the requirements of the agreed specifications and complying with Karbon formal and informal development team standards and procedures.
• Maintaining and championing a high standard of quality, consistency and scalability in our code base
• Work closely with quality assurance team members to resolve issues raised by testing throughout the development cycle.
• Streamlining and automating processes, proactively identifying and eliminating technical debt
• Maintaining a current knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Karbon software applications.
• Implement improvements across the platform to enhance developer experience.
• Collaborating effectively with product, support and other software engineering teams.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships within the development team.
• Owning and taking your code from local to production, provisioning CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Delivering operational support for the platform as part of a team on-call roster rotation.

Qualifications

Candidates with the following characteristics and experience are encouraged to apply:

Essential

• Proficiency with C#, SQL Server, and .Net (MVC, Web API, .Net core). That said, we are looking for candidates fluent in a variety of programming languages, with demonstrated ability to bring in and use these when and where appropriate.
• Understanding of the clean code architecture and software design patterns.
• Knowledge, and practical application, of software engineering best practices. This should include SOLID principles, testing practices, and different architectural designs.
• Experience working with cloud services and knowledge of build and deployment (Azure, GitHub Actions etc.).
• Desire to identify and improve system performance. This includes local developer experience, performance, observability and maintainability.
• Proven experience in making application-wide changes across engineering departments.
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture and best practices in distributed system design.
• You have experience with various storage engines, including SQL, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL solutions, and understand when to use each type effectively.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to a diverse set of technologies.
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
• A problem solver with a self-starter mindset that can adapt well to changing priorities
• Experience with version control tools like git for peer reviews, feature branching and resolving conflicts.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Excellent communication skills to work in an international, multi-location team.
• Has initiative and a passion for all things web and a willingness to go the extra mile. 
• A passion for teamwork and a sense of ownership in your work.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant industry experience.

Desirable

• Your entire infrastructure is defined as code, and you have expertise in provisioning cloud environments with Terraform.
• Knowledge and experience containerising applications using Docker and deploying to Azure ACA or AKS.
• Experience in event-driven architecture and stream processing