- Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.

- Build modern customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, balancing scalability, maintainability, and user experience.

- Develop secure, well-designed APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality and support future growth.

- Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi), with hands-on responsibility across AWS services including IAM, VPCs, ECS/Fargate, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.

- Improve engineering productivity by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, developer tooling, and operational excellence.

- Work confidently across both greenfield projects and existing production systems, making thoughtful decisions that improve code quality without over-engineering.

- Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in on-call responsibilities, and help build reliable, observable systems.

- Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.

- For senior engineers, provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and raising engineering standards across the team.





A successful Senior Software Engineer should have:

- TypeScript

- React

- AWS

- PostgreSQL

- Infrastructure as Code (SST or Pulumi preferred)

- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

- ORM frameworks (Prisma preferred)

- Testing frameworks such as Vitest or Jest

- Python experience for automation and CI/CD scripting

- Experience building and maintaining production systems

- Robust understanding of software engineering best practices

- Full-stack development capability

Nice to Have

- Next.js experience

- Supabase ecosystem familiarity

- SST experience

- Go or Deno experience

- Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch

- Monorepo experience (especially Turborepo)

- Startup or high-growth company experience

Our client is helping students achieve better outcomes through world-class mentoring and support. They're a fast-growing, startup-minded team that values ownership, speed, pragmatism, and strong engineering fundamentals.

This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact in a lean, high-performing team where engineers are trusted to solve problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats

- Modern engineering stack

- Opportunity to shape product and technical direction

If you are ready to move forward in your career as a Senior Software Engineer, we encourage you to apply!

📌 Senior Software Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 Michael Page
📍 Melbourne