The opportunity

Right now, we have multiple Fixed Term Full-Time opportunities till 30/06/24 for Senior Software Engineers to join us in the Technology team of the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) Branch.

SCATS is critical to Transport for NSW and its global customer base, improving traffic flows, managing congesting and keeping over 1 billion people safe every day worldwide. Beyond delivering network optimisation and safety outcomes, SCATS is critical to Transport for NSW’s technology agenda, and is key to anchoring NSW as a global leader in innovation and technology.

The Technology team within SCATS is there to deliver the product vision through sound technology engineering, underpinned by quality assurance.

This role will deliver highly effective, practical and reliable software components for the new Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS). Furthermore, the role continuously develops and assesses the systems to ensure systems meet the evolving needs of clients.

What you will be involved in:

• Work within an Agile project team to design, build and maintain software solutions for Transport for NSW.
• Development of high quality, robust and secure software solutions that meet business and customer expectations.
• Assist in design and implementation of development environment and tools (CI/CD).
• Assist in tool and framework selection.
• Collaborate in a team environment to share knowledge and learning.
• Perform code review and analysis.
• Assist in deployment of component packages and applications into production, and post implementation support.

About you

Together with your engineering degree from an Australian University or equivalent overseas qualifications, you will also have demonstratable software development experience in C++ and/or Java with a preference for C++.

Combined with your experience with tools such as GIT/Bitbucket, Jenkins/Bamboo, automation testing frameworks, you will also bring experience working on Agile projects, preferably using Scrum.

You are someone with a very good understanding of secure development practices as well as having an understanding and experience of TDD approaches to development.

This is a role that will enable you to use your strong analytical and problem solving skills as well as your excellent written and oral communication and time management skills.  Experience with embedded systems, hardware and IOT is also highly desirable.

As a proactive and collaborative professional, you will be joining a start-up mentality branch that is rapidly changing the way we work in new agile ways of working within new types of development environments that sit within a complex product ecosystem