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