The Senior Software Engineer will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge technology solutions. This permanent position offers the chance to work on impactful projects while enhancing systems and applications.
Client Details
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
Description
Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
Build up-to-date 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.
Profile
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
Strong 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
Job Offer
Modern engineering stack
Opportunity to shape product and technical direction
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📌 Senior Software Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 Technology CII
📍 Melbourne