Job Description
Sydney Tools is a well established Australian power tool retailer and following the rapid growth within our business we are now seeking an experiencedSenior Programmer.
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About the Role
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You will take complete, end to end ownership of core features on our e-commerce platform, driving development across our React/TypeScript frontends, server side applications, and underlying database architecture.
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Beyond writing clean code, you will actively share in the team's DevOps responsibilities—managing server maintenance, handling deployments, and keeping our production infrastructure monitored and highly available
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Responsibilities
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Design, build and maintain features end to end: data model, API and the apps that consume it.
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Diagnose and resolve production issues across the application, the database and the infrastructure.
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Make and document architectural decisions, and review other developers' work.
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Help operate the production environment: deployments, database maintenance, monitoring, and runtime and OS upgrades.
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About You
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The candidate must posses the following skills and experience:
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Several years of professional backend development in a language such as C, C++, Rust, Go, Java, C#, Erlang or Elixir.
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A solid understanding of concurrency: processes and threads, shared state, race conditions, and what happens when two things run at once.
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Strong relational database skills, including transactions, isolation levels and locking. PostgreSQL preferred.
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Comfortable on Linux and with production systems — logs, metrics, and diagnosing faults on live servers.
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Able to work across the stack, including
JavaScript/TypeScript
and React.
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Able to explain technical decisions clearly to other developers.
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The following skills are preferred but not essential:
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Elixir/Erlang or Rust.
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Distributed systems: clustering, replication, rolling deployments.
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GraphQL, and modern frontend tooling (React, Relay, Vite).
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Cloud infrastructure: GCP, configuration management (Salt, Ansible or similar), Cloudflare.
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E-commerce experience.
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What We Offer:
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A small team with direct ownership: your design decisions ship
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Time and support to learn Elixir and the BEAM properly
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Involvement in architecture and production, not ticket taking
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Modern corporate offices
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Parking in office
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Strong team environment with great mentors
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📌 Senior Programmer (New South Wales)
🏢 Sydney Tools
📍 New South Wales