Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Summary
Senior full-stack engineer building a cloud-native creative automation workflow platform on Kotlin/Spring Boot, TypeScript/React, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and GCP with Terraform.
Join a foundational engineering team building a cloud-native creative automation workflow platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role for a Senior engineer who wants real ownership - from system design through to production: on a greenfield project driving company-wide transformation.
Please note we're only able to consider candidates who are immediately available or can start within two weeks' notice.
About the Role
You'll be a core engineer across a Kotlin/Spring Boot backend and GCP-hosted infrastructure stack, working closely with the Principal Developer and a small, high-trust team. You'll own features end-to-end, mentor a junior developer, and help set the technical direction for a platform still taking shape.
What You'll Be Doing
Please note we're only able to consider candidates who are immediately available or can start within two weeks' notice.
About the Role
You'll be a core engineer across a Kotlin/Spring Boot backend and GCP-hosted infrastructure stack, working closely with the Principal Developer and a small, high-trust team. You'll own features end-to-end, mentor a junior developer, and help set the technical direction for a platform still taking shape.
What You'll Be Doing
- Driving technical direction and architecture decisions, and mentoring a junior developer
- Owning full feature delivery - system design, implementation, testing and deployment
- Building robust, performant APIs and microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot
- Writing and optimising PostgreSQL queries (including ORM usage) and analytical queries, ideally in BigQuery
- Building and extending workflows for durable, long-running business processes
- Collaborating with the SRE team on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on GCP
- 5+ years in software engineering at a senior level, with meaningful production experience
- Strong Kotlin or Java skills with a modern JVM framework (Spring Boot), solid REST API design and service reliability fundamentals
- Working knowledge of TypeScript and React — comfortable picking up frontend work when needed
- Practical PostgreSQL experience (schema design, query optimisation, transactions, indexing) and a clear understanding of ORM trade-offs
- Hands-on exposure to GCP (or AWS/Azure) and containerised deployment workflows (Kubernetes concepts)
- Proficiency with Git branching strategies and CI/CD via GitHub Actions
- Hybrid working, based in Sydney
- Senior level, hands-on individual contributor role
- Immediate start, or available within 2 weeks' notice