Why This Opportunity Stands Out

- Own the architecture: Genuine technical authority and the opportunity to shape a platform's future.
- Global scale: Build systems that support enterprise customers across the US, Europe, and beyond.
- Complex engineering: Solve challenging problems involving distributed systems, data architecture and scalability.
- High-impact role: Work directly with senior engineering leadership, with your decisions shaping the product's direction.
- Engineering-first culture: A fast-moving environment that values technical excellence, autonomy and getting things done.
- Growth prospect: Join at a pivotal stage and play a central role in the company's next phase of expansion.

The Opportunity

Working alongside senior engineering leadership, you'll play a pivotal role in evolving an established product into a sophisticated, enterprise-grade platform.

You'll be responsible for the architectural roadmap, designing scalable systems and building the technical foundations required to support rapid customer growth.

Importantly, this is a hands-on engineering role, not a people management position. You'll have the autonomy to make critical technical and architectural decisions while remaining actively involved in development.

What You'll Be Doing

- Own the backend architecture and drive the technical roadmap.
- Design and build scalable, data-intensive SaaS platforms.
- Develop robust data models,



APIs and enterprise integration frameworks.
- Architect event-driven systems, data ingestion pipelines and distributed services.
- Evolve AWS infrastructure using serverless and containerised technologies.
- Design secure, reliable multi-region infrastructure supporting international operations.
- Establish engineering best practices across performance, testing, security and observability.
- Collaborate with senior technical leadership and influence key product decisions.

What We're Looking For

- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience, with proven architectural ownership.
- Advanced expertise in TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
- Strong AWS experience, including serverless, containerisation and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building and scaling complex, multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture and microservices.
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling and enterprise integrations.
- Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges.

Experience with Supabase, DynamoDB, Terraform, AI/ML infrastructure or enterprise data platforms would be highly regarded.

Apply now or contact me at [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

📌 Lead Backend Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 AEY & Associates
📍 Sydney