Senior Full Stack Engineer

Why Scentre Group?

Scentre Group is the owner and operator of 42 Westfield living centres in Australia and New Zealand. Our purpose is to create extraordinary places, connecting and enriching communities.

We partner with the world’s leading retail brands to create the places more people choose to come, more often, for longer. Our 42 physical destinations are the heart of our business because we are passionate in our belief that people want to come together in the real world.

We are ambitious to grow, by expanding and enhancing the total Westfield experience through technology, digital products, data and differentiated customer experiences.

We offer our people:

• Market leading benefits including, 5 weeks of annual/life leave, 18 weeks parental leave (no waiting period), volunteer days to work with our charity partners, health and wellbeing discounts, and the ability to purchase extra annual leave
• Diverse career paths across our vertically integrated business
• A strong people culture. We encourage our people to innovate, be curious and drive their career to its full potential

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Engineer, you will be a part of our Digital & Data Technology team. You will be responsible for creating powerful, modern software, taking it through the whole lifecycle of design, build, test, deploy and support. You will be designing, testing and deploying, new and existing features for our Gift Card product. You will be responsible for code review, attending stand ups, writing and sharing thoughts on sub system designs. Working closely with the product manager, you will be discussing new features and breakdown tasks to achievable components. Working in a cross functional team to create and maintain experiences for many different user groups. 

We are also ambitious to grow, by expanding and enhancing the total Westfield experience through technology, digital products, data and differentiated customer experiences. 

You will be working on our Gift Card product and over 2 million Westfield Gift Cards are sold annually via our staffed concierge desks and online, with wide acceptance within Westfield Centres at businesses with eftpos facilities. As we continue to expand and operate the Gift Card technology platform, we are looking for people to join our team and help us maintain and enhance the platform into the future. 

A career with Scentre Group fosters the chance to be part of a company that is transforming the digital and physical retail space. Work with great people and add value to a tangible product you can see. 

You will have overall accountability for:

• Design, build, testing, deploy and support new and existing features (owning the complete lifecycle of a feature) 
• Peer review code, understanding the impact of overall design choices 
• Input into system architecture 
• Solve system bugs, performance problems, production issues 
• Mentor other engineers 
• Facilitates communication during software lifecycle e.g., stand ups, retrospectives, etc 
• Influence direction of team 
• Help optimise completion of work 
• Estimate effort and feed into prioritisation 

Technical skills and knowledge required:

• Strong experience in building full stack software in the .NET ecosystem (.NET 6, .NET Framework, ASP.NET WebForms & MVC, Entity Framework, WCF, Web API, Multithreading, Queue Processing, HTML, JavaScript, CSS) 
• Strong experience and understanding of Transact SQL and SQL Server 
• Strong understanding and experience using modern programming design patterns and practices (Gang of Four, SOLID etc) 
• Microsoft Azure experience (App Services, Web Jobs, App Service APIs) 
• Strong development testing knowledge (unit testing, integration testing) 
• Experience in modern microservice and event driven architectures 
• Experience with modern version control practices using tools like Git and GitHub 

Our diverse and inclusive workforce is not only something we’re proud of, but something we’re committed to. We encourage and support our people to bring their ‘whole selves’ to work every day. This is because we believe all our differences contribute to our success and ensures a workforce that reflects the customers we serve. Our commitment is backed by executive and employee-led working groups including All Abilities, LGBTI, Mental Health & Wellness and Gender Equity alongside other initiatives such as our Reconciliation Action Plan to grow our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce.