Build the products and platform that power customer-first monetisation

Thanks is building a customer-first monetisation platform that delivers sustainable growth - for advertisers, publishers, and customers. We're operating at scale today and entering a phase where execution quality, speed, and sound technical judgment matter more than ever.

We're hiring a Senior Engineer to design and ship meaningful product improvements across our platform. You'll independently drive work end-to-end, bring clarity to complex decisions, and consistently deliver at pace in a high-trust, high-impact setting.

This role is hands‑on, product‑minded, and execution-focused.

What You'll Do

- Ship impactful features end-to-end: Design, build, test, and deploy frontend and backend functionality across our TypeScript / Node / React stack
- Design thoughtful solutions: Independently design technical solutions within our architecture, clearly communicating trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability, and long-term impact
- Own meaningful surface area: Take responsibility for a subsystem or domain area, ensuring quality, maintainability, and steady improvement over time
- Bring product thinking into engineering: Challenge scope when needed, contribute to sequencing decisions, and ensure we're solving the right problems in the right way
- Maintain high engineering standards: Write clean, well-tested code, participate actively in code reviews, and contribute to a culture of contextual quality
- Support production reliability: Troubleshoot issues, resolve bugs, and ensure performance and stability across live systems
- Collaborate openly: Communicate clearly about progress, risks, and trade-offs, contributing to a high-trust,



feedback-oriented engineering culture

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Strong experience building production systems using TypeScript, Node.js, and React
- Ability to independently design scalable solutions and clearly communicate technical trade-offs
- Strong software design fundamentals and system thinking
- Comfort owning features from problem definition through to production
- Pragmatic judgment - you balance ideal architecture with shipping value
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and actively creating structure where it's missing
- High emotional intelligence and strong communication skills
- Strong internal drive - you take pride in your craft and care deeply about the quality and impact of what you ship
- Uses AI thoughtfully to augment problem solving and delivery - accelerating exploration, debugging, and implementation while maintaining high standards for quality, correctness, and ownership
- A genuine ownership mindset - you take responsibility for outcomes and follow through

Nice to have

- Experience building and scaling production systems in product-led startup or scale-up environments
- Exposure to adtech, marketplaces, or performance-driven platforms
- Familiarity with Cloudflare (Workers, Queues, KV)
- Exposure to data systems such as ClickHouse or similar OLAP platforms




- Understanding of experimentation frameworks
- Experience contributing to architectural discussions in growing systems

Our stack

- Backend - Node.js, TypeScript, Turborepo
- Frontend - React, Next.js, React Native
- Infrastructure - Cloudflare (Workers, Queues, KV)
- Data - Prisma, PlanetScale, ClickHouse
- Testing & CI - Vitest, Playwright, GitHub Actions
- Observability - Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry
- Experimentation - Statsig

Benefits

Why Thanks?

At Thanks, we're building a customer‑first monetisation platform that delivers growth without compromise - for advertisers, publishers, and customers alike. We power growth for the world's leading brands, delivering tens of millions of high‑value "thanks" moments every month.

What makes this role different:

- Real ownership: You'll drive meaningful product work end-to-end, with trust and autonomy.
- Impact you can see: Your work directly influences performance, reliability, and growth.
- High standards, low ego: We value thoughtful decisions, clear communication, and strong follow-through.
- Attractive compensation: Including worthwhile equity.
- Flexibility with intent: We're Sydney‑headquartered and value in‑person collaboration, ideally a couple of days per week. That said, we care more about leadership, impact, and outcomes than rigid rules - and we're open to exceptional candidates across Australia's east coast.

We're building something deliberately - not copying what already exists. If you're excited by product‑led engineering and solving complex problems at pace, we'd love to hear from you.

Let's build something extraordinary.

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Newcastle City Council)
🏢 Thanks
📍 Newcastle City Council