Want to build technology that
thousands of students use every day
?
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.
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.
What you'll be doing:
Building and shipping
full-stack features end-to-end
, roughly ***** front and back end
Working across both
greenfield builds and an established production codebase
Designing and developing APIs, services, interfaces and data layers
Building and managing cloud infrastructure through
IaC
Improving CI/CD pipelines, testing and deployment practices
Breaking larger technical challenges into pragmatic, deployable increments
Reviewing code and helping maintain strong engineering standards
Making sensible
build-vs-buy and speed-vs-quality trade-offs
Working in a lean environment where engineers have genuine ownership and wear multiple hats
The core stack:
You don't need experience with every technology, but we're looking for solid capability across:
TypeScript & React
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
- SST or Pulumi preferred
CI/CD & GitHub Actions
ORMs
- Prisma preferred
Vitest or Jest
Python
for CI/CD scripting
Experience with
Next.js, Supabase, Turborepo/monorepos, Go or Deno
would be advantageous, but not essential.
No Go experience?
That's fine.
If you're a strong engineer, it can be picked up on the job.
Your AWS experience
You don't need AWS certifications.




What matters is practical experience working with core AWS services and understanding how cloud infrastructure fits together, ideally including:
IAM | VPC/Networking | ECS/Fargate | S3 | API Gateway | CloudWatch
Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch through IaC would be particularly valuable.
What we're looking for:
You're likely someone who:
Has
5+ years of software engineering experience
Is genuinely
full stack
, rather than heavily front-end focused
Can build from scratch but is equally comfortable improving an existing codebase
Thinks pragmatically and avoids unnecessary technical complexity
Understands good API boundaries, security and application architecture
Takes ownership of what you build from development through to production
Is comfortable with
on-call responsibility
Communicates clearly, challenges ideas constructively and then commits to the agreed direction
Enjoys the pace, ambiguity and ownership that comes with a
startup/scale-up environment
High impact: Build technology used by thousands of students across Australia.
Real ownership: Stay close to the code and take meaningful features from idea through to production.
Modern engineering environment: Work across TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, IaC and a broader modern cloud stack.
Autonomy: Work closely with an experienced Engineering Lead without layers of bureaucracy or micromanagement.
Growth: Join a rapidly scaling organisation with significant investment in its technology platform.
Hybrid flexibility: Work flexibly with some time spent alongside the team in
Melbourne CBD or Eastern suburbs.
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.
#J-*****-Ljbffr

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