Job Description
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.
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Please note we're only able to consider candidates who are immediately available or can start within two weeks' notice.
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About The Role
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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.
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What You'll Be Doing
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Driving technical direction and architecture decisions, and mentoring a junior developer
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Owning full feature delivery - system design, implementation, testing and deployment
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Building robust, performant APIs and microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot
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Writing and optimising PostgreSQL queries (including ORM usage) and analytical queries, ideally in BigQuery
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Building and extending workflows for durable, long-running business processes
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Collaboration with the SRE team on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on GCP
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What You'll Bring
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5+ years in software engineering at a senior level, with meaningful production experience
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Strong Kotlin or Java skills with a modern JVM framework (Spring Boot), solid REST API design and service reliability fundamentals
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Working knowledge of TypeScript and React — comfortable picking up frontend work when needed
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Practical PostgreSQL experience (schema design, query optimisation, transactions, indexing) and a transparent understanding of ORM trade-offs
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Hands-on exposure to GCP (or AWS/Azure) and containerised deployment workflows (Kubernetes concepts)
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Proficiency with Git branching strategies and CI/CD via GitHub Actions
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The Details
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Hybrid working, based in Sydney
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Senior level, hands-on individual contributor role
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Immediate start, or available within 2 weeks' notice
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) (New South Wales)
🏢 Torch Professional Services
📍 New South Wales