About the Company:Streem delivers comprehensive and realtime Print, Online, Television, Radio and Social media intelligence to corporate and government media teams across the ANZ market, helping them to monitor, analyse and respond to news as-it-happens. A challenger business in a highly monopolised market, Streem applies technology and human intelligence to deliver customers a fast, flexible and innovative media monitoring and analysis platform on Desktop, Tablet and Mobile.The RoleWhile our stack of choice is Ruby on Rails for API & background processing on the backend + VueJS SPA on the frontend, our software and data engineers come from various backgrounds (Java, Node, Perl, React, Angular...)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.The variety and the amount of content (text, audio, video, images, PDF) we analyse make for many interesting challenges so we promise you will learn new things and won't get bored.What You'll Do:
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!
About You: 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 with Elasticsearch databases are a bonus. Roles are flexible and we like to play on everyone strengths and interests.Reasons to join the Streem team:
Work with a group of 150+ dedicated, motivated, and loyal staff in Surry Hills and around Australia
Paid Parental Leave
Enjoy daily gourmet lunches prepared for all staff by our in-house chef, plus access to the constantly filled snacks and drinks bar
Access to $3,000 per year of Education and Training allowance and $2,000 Talent Referral Scheme
Benefit from internal and external reward activities including corporate massages, flu vaccinations, pub lunches and off-site events, and a range of corporate discounts on homeware, kitchenware, movie vouchers, tech etc.
Join a flexible working environment, and access a newly fitted out Surry Hills HQ (minutes from Central station)
Dog friendly office
Take your birthday off every year, access Mental Health Days and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) paid for by Streem, providing you an outlet for confidential support in your personal and professional life