Vacancy Name
SmartPath Developer

Employment Type
Permanent

Location
USA - Remote

Summary

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to work in close partnership with our Australia based Core Engineering team. You'll join a small cross functional engineering team of around a dozen engineers that operates as part of a larger organisation-small enough for your work to have real impact yet backed by the scale and support of a broader business.
This role plays a critical part in providing follow the sun engineering coverage, ensuring system reliability and progress during Australian off hours, while also contributing to ongoing feature development.

The successful candidate will split their time between building product features and delivering high quality technical support, including investigation of production issues, system health monitoring, and incident remediation. This role requires strong collaboration skills, a solid grasp of cloud native systems, and comfort operating in a live production environment.

Working Model & Collaboration

This role will consists of two main parts:

1. Building and maintaining product features based on a planned roadmap.
2. Provide on call support during their normal working hours while the Australian team is offline, acting as the first line of engineering response.

There will be a daily overlap in working hours with the Australian Core Engineering team to support:

• Handover of ongoing work and incidents
• Initial and ongoing knowledge transfer
• Sprint planning, prioritisation, and technical alignment

This model ensures continuity of delivery and system support across time zones.

The responsibilities of the role include:

Feature Development
• Design, develop, and deliver high quality software features in alignment with roadmap priorities
• Collaborate with the Australian Core Engineering team on architecture, design reviews, and implementation plans.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well tested code following engineering best practices.

Technical Support & Operations
• Act as the primary engineering contact during Australian off hours, providing on call coverage within standard working hours.
• Investigate production issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring tools to identify root causes.
• Perform incident triage, remediation, and clear handover documentation to the Australian team.
• Work with Kubernetes based workloads, diagnosing deployment, scaling, and runtime issues.
• Support AWS hosted systems, with a strong focus on SQS (queue processing, message flow issues) and SES (email delivery, bounce and reputation analysis).

Collaboration & Communication
• Provide clear and concise handover notes, incident reports, and technical updates.
• Participate in incident post mortems and contribute to long term reliability improvements.
• Work closely with product, platform, and engineering stakeholders to balance feature delivery with operational excellence.

What we're looking for:

Must have skills/experience:

• Strong frontend engineering experience, ideally with modern frameworks and libraries such as React, GraphQL, and solid proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Demonstrated interest in diving into core application logic, including contributing to backend or shared services written in Go, particularly in the areas of integrations, and system to system communication.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed, event driven systems, including asynchronous processing and message based architectures.
• Deep practical knowledge of AWS hosted production systems, with demonstrated experience operating, debugging, and optimising services that rely on:

1. Amazon SQS for reliable message processing
2. Amazon SES for transactional email delivery, monitoring, and reputation management

• Hands on experience running workloads with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, including:
  1. Debugging pod, container, and networking issues
  2. Understanding scaling behaviour and failure modes
  3. Working with deployment strategies and configuration management
• Strong observability and diagnostics expertise, including:
  1. Log aggregation and querying
  2. Metrics analysis and alert interpretation
  3. Root cause analysis in distributed systems
• Familiarity with production support workflows, such as incident triage, escalation, handover documentation, and post incident reviews.
• Experience balancing feature delivery with operational excellence, making pragmatic trade offs to maintain system stability while continuing to ship.
• Comfort working with legacy codebases alongside greenfield development, improving reliability and maintainability incrementally
• Core Competencies
  1. Comfortable balancing feature development with live system support responsibilities.
  2. Strong problem solving skills and a calm, methodical approach to incidents.
  3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for cross time zone collaboration.
  4. A sense of ownership and accountability for system reliability and customer impact.
  5. As the majority of your team is in a different time zone, you have confidence to complete development tasks independently but you're also able to ask for help when you need it.

Why Join Us

• Work closely with a highly capable engineering team.
• Help build a product used by large, established organisations.
• Play a key role in improving system reliability and customer experience.
• Enjoy a role that offers both deep technical challenges and meaningful product impact.
• Be part of a collaborative, globally distributed engineering culture.

What's the deal?

We will provide you with the tools, equipment and support to give you the best possible chance of success and over-achieving your goals. Salary will depend on your experience and will be highly competitive.

In addition to a friendly, flexible and fun working environment, we provide a range of other benefits, including extensive health, dental and vision insurance, employer-funded health savings account, flexible spending plan, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability insurance, gym membership reimbursement, and 401K contribution, as well as 18 days' holiday allowance plus an additional day off on your birthday!

This role is fully remote.

So, if we interest you, please let us know by applying for this position and tell us all about yourself.

To learn more about Smart Communications visit:
https://www.smartcommunications.com/