Software Engineer, Legislation (1 Year Contrct)

Location: Hybrid, Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

Company

hirify.global provides trusted content, software, data, intelligence, and solutions for legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media professionals worldwide.

What you will do

• Plan and execute TimeBase maintenance and development activities with technical, product, delivery, and globally distributed teams.
• Support migration and modernization of TimeBase content, source code, applications, data, CRM systems, and cloud infrastructure into hirify.global systems.
• Contribute to Jira-to-Azure DevOps migration, legacy decommissioning, and validation of migrated systems.
• Modernize a Perl 5.8 system to the latest Perl and support SSO, identity, monitoring, observability, and compliance work, including Australian data residency.
• Participate in technical discovery, document current architecture, and create migration runbooks, technical documentation, and handover notes.
• Coordinate with internal teams, technical experts, external delivery partners, and project teams while identifying risks, blockers, and dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate closely with a small, distributed team across Australian and global time zones.
• Strong written communication skills, including documenting technical decisions and explaining them to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work with evolving scope and multiple concurrent workstreams while prioritizing pragmatically.
• Solid hands-on software development experience, ideally including data migration, system integration, or platform consolidation projects.
• Experience migrating applications and data from on-premises or third-party hosted environments into a cloud platform.
• Experience with data and/or CRM migration, including migration from a legacy CRM such as Capsule.
• Experience with programming languages and toolsets including Perl, C# .NET, Java, JavaScript, Grunt, and Gradle.

Nice to have

• Experience with SSO, identity integration, enterprise security, or data residency requirements.
• Background in legal, publishing, or content-heavy platforms; experience with Westlaw, Lexis, or similar legal research and content systems is a strong plus.
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Experience working with external delivery vendors or contractors on a shared codebase or migration plan.
• Experience in a one-year contractor position.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment for office-based roles, with work from anywhere available for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Flexible workplace policies supporting personal and professional responsibilities and work-life balance.
• Continuous learning, skills development, tuition reimbursement, and career growth programs.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
• Two paid volunteer days annually, pro-bono consulting opportunities, and participation in social impact and ESG initiatives.
• Inclusive culture focused on customer impact, learning, collaboration, fairness, transparency, and belonging.