Software Engineer
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Empowering PR and Marketing Pros to Target, Reach and Engage Their Audiences. At Cision we believe that strategic communications are a driver of progress - for a brand, a company, or any organization. Now more than ever, Communications leaders are shaping the agendas of CEOs and companies, and being trusted to build and protect brands.
We partner with more than 75,000 organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to understand, influence and amplify their stories.
Cision employs the brightest, most passionate people in the tech industry. We’d love for you to join our growing team! We invest in our people through training and professional development while supporting you along the way—all so you can meet your career goals. To us, the most important measure of our success is yours.
This position sits within our Streem team based in Sydney, Australia. Streem provides Media Intelligence services to some of Australia’s leading corporate & government organizations, this includes Samsung, Qantas, The Australian Government, ANZ Bank, MYER, and more. Our mission is to provide a real-time service that empowers media teams to be a step ahead. Inspired by a team of talented media and technology professionals, an amazing culture and remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the landscape, one client at a time!
While our stack of choice is Ruby on Rails for API & background processing on the backend + Vue.JS SPA on the frontend, our software and data engineers come from various backgrounds (Java, Node, Perl, React, Angular, etc. Some of us are stronger on the backend, other on the frontend, but we all work collaboratively top to bottom, and we believe in using the most appropriate tool for the job.
Day to day we work on improving the performance and quality of our content collection technology, build new and better ways of alerting and reporting information to our users in our desktop & mobile apps, enhance our infrastructure to be more automated and reliable as we scale. We deploy on GCP cloud and aim for the sweet spot between modular monolith and micro-services.
Skills and experience
You are an enthusiastic software engineer with 3-5 years (mid-level) / 6+ (senior) years of experience across the whole web stack, familiar with Rails & Vue or keen to transfer skills from similar frameworks in different languages. An interest in news & media, data science and natural language processing and experience with Elasticsearch databases are a bonus. Roles are flexible and we like to play on everyone strengths and interests.
Tasks & responsibilities
- Work with our engineering team to improve the existing platform and bring new features to life in our desktop/mobile/admin apps all the way from concept to deployment
- Write efficient, maintainable and tested code that the rest of the team can rely on and refactor with confidence
- Evaluate and build upon multiple external APIs and services available out there
- Implement our own services where it makes sense to do so
- Be involved in architecture, technology & tooling decisions.
- Deploy every day!
What are the Benefits?
- Work from our brand new Surry Hills new office, 3 mins from Central station, including end-of-trip facilities and bike storage
- Working with a group of 100+ dedicated, motivated, and loyal staff
- In-house dining (lunch) prepared by Streem’s dedicated chef 4x days per week
- External reward activities based on performance
- Access to education and training paid for by Streem, to the value of $3k per year for each staff member + access to salary sacrifice
- Additional leave including your birthday and mental health days when you need them
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), providing you an outlet for confidential support in your personal and professional life
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As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.
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