Senior Software Engineer

Imagine if you could get anything you need for your home at the tap of a button, performed by the best possible person, for the fairest price, immediately. That’s what we’re building at :Different. Our vision is to create the assistant for the home, tackling the trillion-dollar home services market around the world.

As a Senior Software Engineer with approximately 4 years of experience, you will go beyond the duties of a typical senior software engineer, through your significant expertise in one more of these technologies: HTTP, REST, GraphQL, JavaScript, Node.js, React.js, Linux, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform. You will be expected to provide technical leadership for a team of 2-4 engineers.

What can you expect from us?

• Above market-rate salaries pegged to the Australian dollar (we were one of the first companies in Sri Lanka to introduce Cost of Living Allowance, sparking off a trend)
• A high-growth, financially stable company: over 100 team members in Sri Lanka and nearly 200 globally, backed by a multinational corporation (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
• State of the art tech stack: NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS, GraphQL, MongoDB, Terraform
• Perhaps the best product engineering practice in Sri Lanka!
• Unparalleled learning and career growth opportunities: direct career guidance from managers, large amount of reference material, exposure to silicon valley best practices, training reimbursements etc.
• A casual, friendly, open and supportive culture
• Your company shares will be worth a significant amount of money at IPO
• A flexible, hybrid/work-from-home model

• Lead feature development for a team of 2-4 engineers (including a QA)
• Hands-on development work
• Code reviews
• Perform complex technical designs, in consultation with an architect or staff engineer
• Unblock and guide the team on all things technical
• Work with an engineering manager, product manager and UI designer to ensure timely, high quality feature delivery to production