Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Ofload

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Laravel, PHP, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer driving digital transformation of the freight industry at Ofload. Leveraging AI for improved efficiency and collaboration in a hybrid working environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Influence: Partner with your Tech Lead and squad to design resilient systems within our Laravel/React ecosystem that scale.
• Level Up the Team: Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, fostering a culture of high engineering standards, observability, and "getting behind the wheel."
• Collaborate: Work closely with your team. Instead of just building to spec, ask thoughtful questions to understand the 'why,' investigate unusual workflows, and help your squad scope features that genuinely solve real-world problems for shippers and carriers.
• Examples of what you will work on: You’ll build the next phase of shipper integrations to support our growing customer base. Build pricing primitives that are flexible so new pricing models doesn’t require rearchitecting everything. Design and build complex data structures that perform as we scale.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Senior Engineer, with 5-6 years overall experience building and maintaining production systems.
• You’re a Product Engineer: You care about the customer journey as much as the database schema.
• Edge cases excite you: You aren't satisfied with the "happy path." You look for the weird, the abnormal, and the broken
• Data driven: Experience with relational databases, schemas and how to make it perform at scale.
• You default to the backend, but know your way around the whole stack: Strong PHP and Laravel or similar experience. Practical experience with TypeScript/React or modern front-end frameworks.
• Your excited by AI: understanding when to leverage and when not to.
• You love solving hard problems - Ability to break down problems, propose solutions, and take ownership of features from conception to delivery.

Benefits

• Flexibility and Wellbeing: Balance your life with hybrid work arrangements, including remote work options and additional leave for volunteering, celebrations, and personal milestones.
• Empowerment and Growth: access to a $500 learning and development budget to put towards your professional growth, in-house workshops & Lunch & Learns; and
• Our annual Summer Camp offsite
• Office Benefits:
• Weekly catered breakfast, monthly team lunch and a number of delicious snacks
• Morning brew of your choice at our local cafe
• Quarterly celebrations and team events;
• Table tennis, board games and an office library