Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Job Description

The Commercial Products team is responsible for managing a fleet of custom-built systems that are essential to the success of our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, and Presentation teams. These systems are integral for managing ad sales and revenue across our linear broadcast schedules, ensuring smooth operation and efficiency.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer / Technical Lead to join our team, someone who can drive both technical excellence and leadership. This role combines deep technical expertise with the ability to guide and mentor a team, ensuring the success of complex integrations and scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, Develop, and Maintain Integrations: Lead the design and development of integration flows across various platforms, APIs, databases, protocols, and data formats to streamline system interoperability and ensure high-performance data exchanges.

• Lead Code Reviews & Best Practices: Guide and collaborate with fellow developers on the team, reviewing code to ensure technical quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices. Promote a culture of excellence across integrations and system designs.

• Security & Performance: Champion security best practices throughout the development process and ensure that all systems are optimized for performance and scalability, particularly in database operations.

• System Architecture & Documentation: Oversee the development of system integration architecture and ensure that comprehensive, up-to-date documentation is maintained for future reference and scalability.

• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers on cloud development, integrations, and best practices. Lead by example, helping junior engineers grow their technical expertise and guiding the team through complex problem-solving scenarios.

• Agile Leadership & Team Collaboration: Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and facilitate team collaboration, ensuring smooth workflows, iterative progress, and alignment with project goals.

• Database & Technical Expertise: Leverage strong database knowledge to write optimized, performant queries and ensure systems scale effectively as the business grows.

Qualifications

You are a senior engineer with proven experience in complex, large-scale systems and have demonstrated the ability to lead technical initiatives. You are comfortable navigating legacy systems while driving continuous improvement and innovation.

Technical Skills:

• Extensive experience working with AWS and managing large-scale environments
• Development Frameworks: Expert-level proficiency with .NET Framework, .NET Core, and SQL Server.
• Web Services: Experience working with WCF services.
• DevOps: Knowledge of and experience with DevOps practices and principles.
• Agile: Strong understanding of Agile principles and experience leading teams in an Agile environment.

Additional Information

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes