Job Description
About the Opportunity n
UCentric is exclusively partnering with a high-growth, Melbourne-based technology venture as they enter a pivotal expansion phase following a successful platform rollout. This organization is at the forefront of Australian-led innovation, now focusing on scaling its engineering capability to support complex product delivery and production readiness.
Full Stack Software Engineer n
We are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer who is eager to contribute to a live, high-performance production workplace. This is an ideal role for an engineer with 1-3 years of experience who possesses strong Computer Science foundations and a genuine passion for engineering excellence.
Your Mission n
You will build the services that sit between the model and the outside world. This is a role where reliability is a feature. You will design architectures that handle model inference, user requests, and real-time streaming, ensuring the system stays fast and predictable under significant load.
What You'll Actually Do n
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Build and maintain services that handle model inference and user requests.
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Implement critical mechanisms like rate limiting, retries, and graceful failure.
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Design systems that manage complex user sessions and streaming responses.
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Build authentication and access controls for public-scale usage.
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Improve latency,



throughput, and the overall reliability of model serving.
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Work with infrastructure and training engineers to integrate new model checkpoints into production.
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Design systems for logging, traces, and evaluation signals to monitor system behavior.
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The Kind of Person Who Will Thrive n
We are looking for engineers who are:
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Cares about runtime behavior and how large-scale systems behave under real-world constraints.
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Stays calm when production behaves unexpectedly and enjoys debugging real systems.
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Has the rigor to build systems that are hard to break.
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Has a genuine desire to understand how the full AI stack actually works.
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Technical Skills & Experience n
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Experience: 1-3
years of experience building production software.
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Backend Proficiency:
Comfortable building services in modern languages (Python is highly preferred here).
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Systems Design:
Experience with APIs, service interfaces, and designing for stability under load.
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Observability:
Ability to read logs and metrics to diagnose performance profiles and deployment bottlenecks.
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Note n
Note: This is a full-time role based in Melbourne. Applicants must have existing and unrestricted work rights in Australia.
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📌 Full Stack Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 UCentric
📍 Melbourne