- Be part of one of the most innovative companies in Australia with industry leading technology
- A place to truly be yourself and thrive in your career from the beginning
- Recognised and endorsed as an employer for all women by Work180 - ranking within the top 101 workplaces for 2026

About Us

At Sportsbet, we’re united behind our purpose to Bring Excitement to Life for over 2.4 million customers. We do this by delivering fun, challenging the status quo, and living our values. As part of the global Flutter Group, we’re a major player internationally—but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin, we’re a tight‑knit team of 1,300+ teammates (with over half in Tech & Data Science).

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools. We’re proud to be the leaders in responsible gambling in our industry, not just locally, but globally.

We are one of the top workplaces for Women through WORK180. WORK180 is a leading platform that independently assesses employers on policies, benefits and practices that support women and underrepresented groups at work. We remain committed to making Sportsbet the best place to work and encourage you to explore our employer profile on the WORK180 website to learn more about what we offer.

- Be part of one of the most innovative companies in Australia with industry leading technology
- A place to truly be yourself and thrive in your career from the beginning
- Recognised and endorsed as an employer for all women by Work180 - ranking within the top 101 workplaces for 2026

About Us

At Sportsbet,



we’re united behind our purpose to Bring Excitement to Life for over 2.4 million customers. We do this by delivering fun, challenging the status quo, and living our values. As part of the global Flutter Group, we’re a major player internationally—but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin, we’re a tight‑knit team of 1,300+ teammates (with over half in Tech & Data Science).

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools. We’re proud to be the leaders in responsible gambling in our industry, not just locally, but globally.

We are one of the top workplaces for Women through WORK180. WORK180 is a leading platform that independently assesses employers on policies, benefits and practices that support women and underrepresented groups at work. We remain committed to making Sportsbet the best place to work and encourage you to explore our employer profile on the WORK180 website to learn more about what we offer.

About the Role We’re scaling development at Sportsbet and looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Java, to join our Betting Product Technology team in Melbourne. You’ll design and build reliable, scalable backend systems while helping uplift engineering standards across the team. This is a hands-on senior role where you’ll take technical ownership,



solve complex problems and support the growth of junior team members. Responsibilities include:

- Design, build and evolve scalable backend services and platforms.
- Deliver high-quality software focused on maintainability, reliability and performance.
- Lead technical design and solutioning for complex business problems.
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps practices.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, helping strengthen technical capability and engineering practices across the team.

About You You combine strong technical depth with professionalism, sound judgement and accountability. You enjoy solving meaningful problems, collaborating across teams and helping others grow. Adaptable and delivery-focused, you bring a genuine sense of ownership and are motivated by building excellent systems, supporting your teammates and continuously improving engineering practices. What You Will Bring:

- Proven experience in a senior engineering role, including mentoring and guiding junior team members.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Working knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch and RDS.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure coding and engineering tools such as Docker, Jenkins and Ansible.

The Perks

We work hard and play hard, so along with a competitive salary and generous performance-based bonus for permanent staff members, here’s some of our other perks:

📌 Senior Java Backend Engineer | Mentoring (Melbourne)
🏢 Sportsbet
📍 Melbourne