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Rokt (www.rokt.com) | Software Engineer (Clojure) | Sydney, Australia | Full-time, ONSITE

Rokt is hiring thoughtful, talented functional programmers to expand our Clojure team in Sydney. Ideally we're looking for mid- to senior-level engineers, but get in touch even if that doesn't describe you: above all, we're looking for great people, not "X years in the job already".

Rokt is a successful startup (150+ employees, profitable for several years now) with a transaction marketing platform used by some of the world's largest ecommerce sites. Our Sydney-based engineering team supports a business that is growing rapidly around the world. We have a small handful of applications and services in Clojure, including some of our most critical work.

If you have professional Clojure experience, great. What we're really looking for, though, is developers comfortable with a simple, functional style of writing code -- we'll happily bring you up to speed on Clojure if you're not there already. If you have a Java background and you're looking to move in a more FP direction, we'd love to talk to you. If you're a Lisper or Haskeller, or have a background in another FP language, we'd love to talk to you.

Contact me at sam@rokt.com

Please note that unfortunately at this point we can only consider applicants who already have a legal right to work in Australia.


ROKT | www.rokt.com | Sydney, Australia | ONSITE

Software Engineers (Clojure)

Rokt is hiring thoughtful, talented functional programmers, at all levels, to expand our Clojure team in Sydney.

Rokt is a successful startup (150+ employees, Australia's second-largest series B completed successfully last year) with a transaction marketing platform used by some of the world's largest ecommerce sites. Our Sydney-based engineering team supports a business that is growing rapidly around the world. You'd be joining the team responsible for Rokt's "Data Platform", which uses Clojure to do the data-munging we need to connect to a variety of advertisers' and ecommerce partners' CRMs.

If you have professional Clojure experience, great. What we're really looking for, though, is developers comfortable with a simple, functional style of writing code -- we'll happily bring you up to speed on Clojure if you're not there already. If you have a Java background and you're looking to move in a more FP direction, we'd love to talk to you. If you're a Lisper or have a background in another FP language, we'd love to talk to you.

Contact me at sam@rokt.com

Please note that unfortunately at this point we can only consider applicants who already have a legal right to work in Australia.


ROKT | www.rokt.com | Sydney, Australia | ONSITE

Software Engineers (Clojure/ClojureScript)

ROKT is hiring thoughtful, talented functional programmers, at all levels, to expand our Clojure team in Sydney.

ROKT is a successful startup (~100 employees) with a transaction marketing platform used by some of the world's largest ecommerce sites. Our Sydney-based engineering team supports a business that is growing rapidly around the world. Our Clojure team is responsible for a variety of sites and services written in Clojure and ClojureScript.

If you have professional Clojure experience, great. What we're really looking for, though, is developers comfortable with a simple, functional style of writing code -- we'll happily bring you up to speed on Clojure if you're not there already.

Due to Australian visa requirements, unfortunately we're only able to consider candidates who already have the legal right to work in Australia, please.

Contact Claudio at claudio@rokt.com


Are the Australian visa requirements that bad? With the current nastiness of trump, isn't this a great opportunity for Australia to steal some talent.

Also didn't Trump tell Turnbull that he is an idiot for asking him to take 2000 refugees when he just signed the anti-muslim order?


Sponsoring engineers to come to Australia is definitely possible -- and in fact we've done it in the past for certain roles. But, as in some other countries, it does come with the caveat that you need to be able to justify the sponsorship with evidence that it's not possible to find anyone who could do the role and who already has the right to work in Australia.

We're pretty open about what sort of candidates we'd consider: we're looking for good engineers to join the team, and are willing to accept that that means that we might have to spend some time and effort training them up in the technologies we use, etc. I think that's a great attitude for us to have. But it does make it pretty difficult for us to turn around and tell the government "we have to bring this specific individual from overseas because no Australian has the exact skillset we need for this role".


Australia has an H1-B equivalent called a 457 Visa with similar requirements.


I'm a contractor at ROKT on the Clojure team, it's been a blast working with Sam and the rest of the folks at ROKT.


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