Software Engineer, Embedded and Cloud
Summary
Found Life, a Melbourne company making premium home hardware products, is hiring a full-time software engineer to own its software end to end: embedded firmware on the device, back-end services and APIs in the cloud, and touchscreen/mobile app interfaces, including safety-critical control logic and taking software from prototype to field production.
About us
We're a Melbourne company that designs and sells premium products for the home. We make the hardware, and we want an engineer to design, build and own the software that runs it.
The role
Full-time Software Engineer, based in Melbourne. You'll set the technical direction for our software across the device, the cloud and the app, and you'll be the person who knows how it all fits together. A small team, with real ownership.
What you'll do
Design and own the software architecture across our products, from the device to the cloud to the app
Build the embedded software that controls our hardware
Build the back-end services and APIs behind it
Build the interfaces customers use, on the product and on their phone
Own safety-critical control logic and the testing that proves it
Take software from prototype to production: commissioning, validation and support in the field
Document it so the next engineer can pick it up
What you'll bring
3+ years of commercial software engineering, including embedded software on real hardware
Low-level device interfaces and communication protocols
Back-end services, APIs and data design for devices in the field
User interfaces for touchscreens and mobile apps
Secure software updates for devices in the field, and CI/CD
Safety-critical control logic, tested on real hardware
A degree in computer engineering, computer science or similar, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
Consumer hardware or home products
Leading a small engineering team
Why join
Design the architecture, not just maintain it
A real product you can see and touch
Small team, fast decisions, your call counts
How to apply
Apply through SEEK with your CV and a few lines on something you built that ran on real hardware.
Employer: Found Life Pty Ltd
