Join a foundational engineering team building a cloud-native creative automation workflow platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role for a Senior engineer who wants real ownership - from system design through to production: on a greenfield project driving company-wide transformation.
Please note
we're only able to consider candidates who are immediately available or can start within two weeks' notice.
About The Role
You'll be a core engineer across a Kotlin/Spring Boot backend and GCP-hosted infrastructure stack, working closely with the Principal Developer and a small, high-trust team. You'll own features end-to-end, mentor a junior developer, and help set the technical direction for a platform still taking shape.
What You'll Be Doing
Driving technical direction and architecture decisions, and mentoring a junior developer
Owning full feature delivery - system design, implementation, testing and deployment
Building robust, performant APIs and microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot
Writing and optimising PostgreSQL queries (including ORM usage) and analytical queries, ideally in BigQuery




Building and extending workflows for durable, long-running business processes
Collaboration with the SRE team on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on GCP
What You'll Bring
5+ years in software engineering at a senior level, with meaningful production experience
Strong Kotlin or Java skills with a modern JVM framework (Spring Boot), solid REST API design and service reliability fundamentals
Working knowledge of TypeScript and React — comfortable picking up frontend work when needed
Practical PostgreSQL experience (schema design, query optimisation, transactions, indexing) and a explicit understanding of ORM trade-offs
Hands-on exposure to GCP (or AWS/Azure) and containerised deployment workflows (Kubernetes concepts)
Proficiency with Git branching strategies and CI/CD via GitHub Actions
The Details
Hybrid working, based in Sydney
Senior level, hands-on individual contributor role
Immediate start, or available within 2 weeks' notice
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) (Sydney)
🏢 Torch Professional Services
📍 Sydney