Job Description

Contract Senior Backend Engineer - 3 to 6 Months Contract

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Melbourne, Australia

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The Impact You'll Make (Key Responsibilities) - Golang preferred

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Architect Distributed Backends: Own the backend system design, database schemas, and API architecture for large-scale enterprise solutions.

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High-Performance Engineering: Build and optimize highly loaded, fault‐tolerant distributed systems—resolving complex bottlenecks, memory leaks, and CPU utilization challenges.

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Integrate the Cloud Engine: Seamlessly bridge application code with Google Cloud native resources, deploying microservices to containerized and serverless environments (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).

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Data & Streaming Performance: Design and consume clean gRPC and RESTful APIs while optimizing transactional data flows utilizing BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, or message brokers (Kafka/PubSub).

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Maintain the Bar: Enforce rigorous engineering governance—conducting strict code reviews, building end‐to‐end unit/integration testing mocks, and ensuring clean software design patterns across the cross‐regional team.

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Local Market Presence: Collaborate occasionally with client technical stakeholders in the Melbourne CBD to lead architecture alignments or unpack intricate backend system requirements.

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What You Bring to the Table (Requirements)

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The Tenure: 8–10 years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a solid, focus‐heavy portfolio of shipping production‐grade services at scale.

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Language Proficiency: Solid programming roots with hands‐on proficiency in one or more general‐purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C++, or Node.js), backed by an intuitive understanding of clean code and object‐oriented or functional design patterns.

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Cloud‐Native Blueprinting: Production experience building applications engineered explicitly for cloud environments, including deep familiarity with Docker,



Kubernetes manifests, and IaC (Terraform) principles.

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The Consulting Polish: Exceptional English communication skills. You can explain complex distributed systems trade‐offs (like data replication lags or network stream state‐management) to an enterprise client's engineering lead with absolute clarity.

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The Market Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

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The Go Advantage: Strong production experience writing idiomatic, highly optimized Golang services, with deep knowledge of Go's memory model, profiling tools (pprof), and concurrency primitives.

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GCP Architecture Alignment: Active Google Cloud certifications (Professional Cloud Architect or Developer) or a deep familiarity with GCP identity paradigms (IAM, OAuth, VPC Service Controls).

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Local Sector Familiarity: Previous experience architecting backends within highly regulated Australian sectors (e.g., Core Banking, Digital Lending, Energy, or Telecommunications).

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AI‐First Mindset: Comfort using or implementing AI‐assisted engineering tools (e.g., Gemini Code Assist) to maximize your daily prototyping and test‐suite building velocity.

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The Aviato Edge (Why Partner With Us?)

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Ex‐Google Pedigree: Work side‐by‐side with engineers and founders who built their careers at Google, operating within a zero‐politics, high‐IQ environment.

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True Hybrid Autonomy: We trust you to "make good choices" regarding your workspace—collaborate seamlessly from your home in Victoria, checking in on‐site with clients in Melbourne when milestones demand.

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The "Hard No" List (Don't apply if...)

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You are a script writer who handles backend infrastructure casually. We need an advanced software engineer who understands structural system design.

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You prefer isolated, ticket‐pulling tasks over actively contributing to structural design choices and mentoring junior delivery pairs.

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You view security, observability, and tracing (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry) as "the DevOps team's problem."

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📌 Senior Backend Engineer - 3 to 6 Months Contract (Victoria)
🏢 Aviato Consulting
📍 Victoria