Golang Job: Quality Engineer

Life at Nine.

When it comes to connecting brands with the passions of Australians, there’s no other media company like Nine. Nine lives at the intersection of Australia’s best content, conversation and culture. We are a leading multi-platform media network, engaging an audience of 14 million users across news, business & finance, lifestyle, entertainment & sport.

Nine’s assets include the Nine Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, Nine Radio, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, subscription video platform Stan and majority investments in Domain Group and Drive. See more about careers at Nine here.

Our team builds customer facing features for some of the most highly visited media websites in Australia, as well as the content management systems and services. We’re using a brand new, entirely cloud-first modern tech stack, with a fully automated, Slack-integrated CI/CD DevOps environment. We craft world-class high performance, high availability, web applications in small autonomous Agile squads.

As a Quality Engineer in our team you'll identify and implement quality improvements across the product, process and culture within your squad. You’ll work alongside engineers, providing guidance to instil a strong focus on quality and security. You’ll build and improve automations tools and frameworks to support delivering the product roadmap. You will be supported to up skill and train in DevOps and other areas of our stack.

Our tech stack includes React, Node.js, Golang, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Concourse CI/CD, Slack, Prometheus, Honeycomb, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL and more.

Enough about us, let's talk about you.

We invest heavily in the continuous development of our people, so you will need to be someone who is open to new ideas and is motivated by learning new things. You will also enjoy working collaboratively across the team and the organisation, and be able to share creative ideas in a professional and constructive way.

In order to be successful for this role, you will ideally have:

• Experience applying test methodologies and QA processes across the software release process in an Agile environment

• Proven engineering skills (such as an understanding of Object oriented design principles and patterns).

• A commitment to quality in your work and your team. You’ve helped create high quality software by shifting quality left, using your influence and persuasion to bring the team along.

You’ll have a head start if you also have:

• Experience using React Testing Library or equivalent web based testing libraries

• Experience using source control (e.g. Git) for Continuous Delivery/Deployment

• Experience using Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence

What you'll get in return at Nine.

• Flexible hours and remote/hybrid working
• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Access to Future Women – a movement to help women connect, learn and lead through unique content and events.
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners including Samsung, Apple, JB HI-FI, HP, Hertz Car Hire and TFE Hotels

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Nine’s Workplace Condition of Entry

Nine is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and doing what is reasonably practical to protect our people, including visitors to all Nine sites and events.

Nine has introduced a Workplace Condition of Entry - COVID 19 Policy that requires all workplace attendees and participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering a Nine workplace (unless you have a valid medical exemption). You will be asked to declare your vaccination status as part of the application process and provide evidence of this. This information will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes