Senior Developer

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people's lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

As a Senior Developer, you will work on our Smartly Payroll System. Smartly is a SaaS Online Payroll Product helping more than 20,000 clients to with their payroll needs. Our ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of working on backend; also have great ability to solve problems, design & write clean code; and mentor other developers.

What you'll do

At the moment, as Senior Developer you will be focused on:

• Working on backend services for the Smartly Payroll product.
• Implementing complex features and fixing complex bugs.
• Integrating with external APIs and third-party services.
• Mentoring junior developers and promoting best practices, design patterns, and coding standards.
• Delivering quality, well-tested code across the SDLC.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design high-performing, maintainable solutions.

We are a pretty agile company and are keen to respond to customer, technology, and internal stakeholders' changing requirements — this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years' experience working on IT projects across multiple phases of the SDLC.
• Full stack web development experience.
• You will be confident in developing and mentoring in C#.
• At least 5 years development experience in .Net.
• Unit testing
• Knowledge of software configuration management using tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with service-oriented frameworks.
• Must have hands-on experience integrating with external API solutions and third-party services
• Good business experience and understanding across several industries helping reshape parts of business to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Ability to implement complex features and unit tests and fix complex bugs.
• Ability to lead more junior developers and provide guidance on best practices, design patterns
• Excellent communication skills, with a strong focus on helping create cohesive, collaborative and productive virtual teams.
• Good conceptual and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and pick up new technologies.
• Team player, who enjoys working collaboratively.
• Ability to anticipate and proactively handle issues.
• Ability to personally manage tasks and follow through.
• Public Cloud exposure (Azure) is a bonus.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You'll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken — and continue to take — to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.