Job Description

Want to build technology that thousands of students use every day?

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We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of Australia's fastest-growing education businesses, working on a modern platform at the centre of its next phase of growth.

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This is a genuinely hands-on, full-stack role. You'll work closely with the Engineering Lead, own meaningful features end-to-end and help solve some of the harder technical challenges across both new and existing systems.

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What you'll be doing:

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- Building and shipping full-stack features end-to-end, roughly 50/50 front and back end
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- Working across both greenfield builds and an established production codebase
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- Designing and developing APIs, services, interfaces and data layers
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- Building and managing cloud infrastructure through IaC
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- Improving CI/CD pipelines, testing and deployment practices
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- Breaking larger technical challenges into pragmatic, deployable increments
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- Reviewing code and helping maintain strong engineering standards
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- Making sensible build-vs-buy and speed-vs-quality trade-offs
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- Working in a lean environment where engineers have genuine ownership and wear multiple hats
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The core stack:

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You don't need experience with every technology, but we're looking for strong capability across:

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- TypeScript & React
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- AWS
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- Infrastructure as Code - SST or Pulumi preferred
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- CI/CD & GitHub Actions
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- ORMs - Prisma preferred
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- Vitest or Jest
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- Python for CI/CD scripting
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Experience with Next.js, Supabase, Turborepo/monorepos, Go or Deno would be advantageous, but not essential.

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No Go experience? That's fine. If you're a strong engineer, it can be picked up on the job.

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Your AWS experience

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You don't need AWS certifications.

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What matters is practical experience working with core AWS services and understanding how cloud infrastructure fits together, ideally including:

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IAM | VPC/Networking | ECS/Fargate | S3 | API Gateway | CloudWatch

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Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch through IaC would be particularly valuable.

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What we're looking for:

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You're likely someone who:

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- Has 5+ years of software engineering experience
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- Is genuinely full stack, rather than heavily front-end focused
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- Can build from scratch but is equally comfortable improving an existing codebase
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- Thinks pragmatically and avoids unnecessary technical complexity
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- Understands good API boundaries, security and application architecture
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- Takes ownership of what you build from development through to production
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- Is comfortable with on-call responsibility
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- Communicates clearly, challenges ideas constructively and then commits to the agreed direction
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- Enjoys the pace, ambiguity and ownership that comes with a startup/scale-up environment
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High impact: Build technology used by thousands of students across Australia.

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Real ownership: Stay close to the code and take meaningful features from idea through to production.

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Up-to-date engineering environment: Work across TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, IaC and a broader modern cloud stack.

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Autonomy: Work closely with an experienced Engineering Lead without layers of bureaucracy or micromanagement.

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Growth: Join a rapidly scaling organisation with significant investment in its technology platform.

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Hybrid flexibility: Work flexibly with some time spent alongside the team in Melbourne CBD or Eastern suburbs.

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If you're an experienced engineer who likes building, shipping and solving real problems rather than over-engineering them, we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack I Ed-Tech I Melb (Victoria)
🏢 UltraTalent
📍 Victoria