About Us

We're Wield, an early-stage, venture-backed team building something new in the monetization infrastructure space founded by ex-Canva alumni and based in Surry Hills. We can't tell you exactly what it is yet, but we can tell you what it feels like: a hard, real-world problem, a product people will rely on every day, and a small team where every engineer shapes the foundations. We've raised a significant seed round, we're backed by top-tier US and Australian investors, and we're hiring our first 10 engineers in Sydney.

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The Role

You'll design and own the core platform that powers our product: the APIs, the data model, the event pipelines and the infrastructure. There's no legacy monolith to babysit. There is a blank whiteboard, a real problem at global scale, and the expectation that you'll make calls that still look good in three years.

Engineers here are hands-on with product from the start. You’ll work directly with our design partners and the founders, hearing first-hand from the Businesses using what we build, and you’ll have a real say in what gets built and in what order, from the roadmap through to the longer-term vision. The team is small and the problem matters deeply to us, so your judgement carries weight from the first week.

The challenges you'll take on

- Messy, real-world inputs. Data arrives late, out of order, incomplete, duplicated and occasionally wrong. You'll build systems that stay correct anyway.

- Reliability from day one.



People will make real decisions on what we serve. Idempotency, observability and graceful failure aren't nice-to-haves.

- Designing for scale we haven't hit yet. We're expecting to handle sudden increases in traffic/volume, and as such need to make the right things simple now without painting us into a corner later.

- Clean contracts. You'll define the APIs that our frontend, data and ML engineers build on, as well as a rich public API for our customers to integrate with, so clarity matters as much as performance.

- Build for the developer experience. Our product needs to be best in class for developers to integrate with.

Ideal Skills

- 5+ years building and running production backend systems, ideally including time at a startup or on a greenfield product.
- If you're newer in your career but have been doing big things, definitely still apply!

- Strong in at least one backend language (ideally Java) and comfortable with relational databases, queues and cloud infrastructure (AWS).

- You've been on call for something you built, and it made you a better engineer.

- You'd rather ship something incremental that shows value this week than something perfect next quarter.

Bonus Points

- Embeddable or third-party JavaScript (SDKs, web components, iframes, widgets).

- Payments/fintech experience.

- A background in growth and experimentation

What You Get

- Very market-competitive salary for a seed startup

- Meaningful equity

- Real ownership of the product

- Lunch stipend

📌 Backend Engineer (Australia)
🏢 Wield
📍 Australia