About Us:

At Ubank, we empower the digital generation to achieve financial success. Think of us as your daily money companion, offering a unified view of your finances with smart features and real-time insights. Save more, track spending, and achieve home ownership faster with Ubank.

The Why:

The Platform Engineer supports building, maintaining, and improving the shared platform capabilities that Ubank's engineering squads rely on daily, from CI/CD pipelines and golden pathway templates to observability dashboards and developer portal plugins. You will operate across platform domains including build systems, developer tooling, and production monitoring , contributing hands‑on engineering capacity under the direction of senior platform engineers. The Platform Engineer applies GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, scaffolding tools, and AI-assisted development practices in a regulated banking environment, ensuring platform services are reliable, well‑documented, and adopted by the squads they serve.

Key Responsibilities:

Build Internal Developer Products

- Build and maintain developer platform capabilities that improve productivity, consistency, and developer experience across engineering teams.
- Contribute to reusable self‑service workflows, tooling, and platform solutions that help teams deliver software more efficiently.
- Support the development and adoption of engineering standards, templates, and best practices across the platform.

Improve Software Delivery

- Develop and support platform services that enable build systems, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and software delivery processes.
- Assist in identifying and resolving inefficiencies across the software development lifecycle to improve developer productivity and delivery outcomes.




- Work with engineering teams to understand their workflow challenges and help implement practical improvements.

Enable Observability and Reliability

- Build and maintain platform capabilities that provide visibility into system health, service performance, and developer workflows.
- Develop dashboards, automation, tooling, and operational documentation that improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
- Participate in on‑call rotations and support incident response activities while contributing to post‑incident learnings and improvements.

Partner Across Engineering

- Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to help embed governance and security controls into developer workflows.
- Support the adoption of platform tools and services by working closely with engineering teams and providing guidance when needed.
- Contribute to balancing developer experience, platform standards, security requirements, and operational reliability in day‑to‑day decision‑making.

Experience:

- Experience in Software Engineering, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Developer Experience Engineering .
- Experience contributing to shared capabilities, frameworks, products, or platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building and maintaining production applications using TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks such as React .
- Experience developing developer tooling, internal platforms, engineering productivity solutions,



or software delivery capabilities.
- Working knowledge of modern software delivery practices, CI/CD platforms, cloud‑native development, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience improving engineering workflows through automation, self‑service capabilities, reusable tooling, or platform solutions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers and cross‑functional stakeholders.
- Experience working in modern engineering environments where teams are responsible for development, testing, deployment, and operational support.

Why Ubank?

- Innovation with impact: From meaningful work to amazing benefits, we equip you with the tools and support to drive real change - so your ideas don't just stay ideas, they become impact.
- Team-oriented, supportive & fun: We believe innovation is a team sport. It comes from a special kind of culture that's highly collaborative and gives people the support they need to thrive.
- Build something great: Ubank is where ambition meets opportunity. We don't just talk about change - we give you the tools, trust, and support to make it happen.
- Freedom to be yourself: We celebrate individuality and give you the flexibility to work in ways that suit your style. Our hybrid working model lets you balance connection and autonomy.
- Accelerate your Career: With clear paths for career development, your potential won't just be recognised, it'll be accelerated.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of our local area.

This Sydney-based permanent role requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, and our Talent team is excited to connect with you.

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📌 Platform Engineer (Developer experience) (Sydney)
🏢 UBank
📍 Sydney