Software Engineer II - REMOTE - #34918

As a Software Engineer II, you will play a pivotal role in driving complex builds from inception to completion. You will leverage your experience to design, implement, and optimize end-to-end data solutions, ensuring the performance and reliability of mission-critical data pipelines.

Company Profile:

Our client is an Australian-headquartered company that has been a trusted leader in media intelligence across the Asia-Pacific region for over 40 years. Their services support organizations across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia in navigating complex information environments and making informed strategic decisions. They have developed a proprietary suite of AI-powered tools designed specifically for PR and communications professionals. These solutions deliver actionable insights that help some of the world’s largest brands and organizations understand public perception, manage reputation, and drive strategic outcomes.

As they continue to expand their team presence in the Philippines, they are actively growing their local engineering team to support global initiatives. They are currently seeking a Software Engineer II who will contribute to building scalable, high-performing data solutions and play a key role in delivering impactful products.

This is a great opportunity to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement are highly valued.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•Coding & Development: Implement robust solutions, primarily using Python (experience with Java/Node is a bonus). This includes low-latency, high-volume data processing and text processing techniques (e.g., tokenisation, lemmatisation)

•Specialisation: Focus on specific areas within data processing and modelling, acquiring deep industry knowledge

•Cloud Exposure (AWS): Utilise experience in discovering and evaluating new AWS services and approaches to continuously improve our platform

•Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the Architect and stakeholders, actively share knowledge with the technical team, and lead small, focused projects

•Automation & DevOps: Be familiar with automated pipelines, covering build, testing, source control, and Infrastructure as Code

•Innovation: Stay current with the latest technology trends, including utilising AI coding assistants to design solutions and leveraging code repository tools to automate build pipelines and ensure code quality

Requirements:
Must-have Skills / Qualification:

•Minimum 4 years of development experience with Python expertise

•Proven ability to design and implement end-to-end solutions that successfully solve complex business problems with expert proficiency in Python

•Deep experience with stream and batch models, low-latency, high-volume processing, and text processing techniques

•Experience designing and implementing relational models using SQL (including indexing and optimising execution plans), as well as experience utilising blob and NoSQL storage types

•Experience writing and deploying Microservices and implementing data pipelines using message brokers (e.g., Kafka, SQS)

•Demonstrated ability to implement complete automated pipelines (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code)

•Strong experience with AWS, including provisioning by code and evaluation of new services

•Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal in order to effectively collaborate and communicate with the team

•Strong sense of independence with the ability to work with minimal supervision

•Proactive mindset with a high level of initiative

•Flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced, evolving environment

•Demonstrates a continuous learning attitude and actively seeks to acquire new skills and knowledge

•Possess proactive and creative approach to problem-solving and system design

•Collaborative with genuine desire to share knowledge and insights with the team

Advantageous or Nice-to-Have Skills/Experience:

•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

•FastAPI experience