InPlace Software builds the leading work-integrated learning platform. More than 250 universities, healthcare networks, and vocational providers use it to run clinical placements, internships, industry projects, and graduate programs at scale. Our products serve five regions: Australia and Recent Zealand, the UK and EU, North America, Singapore, and the Middle East. We build the product in Australia and run go-to-market and support in each region.

InPlace is a privately held Australian software company backed by a US private equity firm. We have more than 110 people worldwide; we invest heavily in product every year, and we run as a focused, high-performance team.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a senior back-end developer for one of our squads, and a strong contributor to our platform capabilities. You go deep on the backend, you build services other teams rely on, and you raise the quality bar wherever you work. You ship alongside the squad, and you help shape how the platform grows.

What You'll Do

Build the platform

- Design and build multi-tenant, microservice-based backend services in C# and ASP.NET Core
- Build high-performance APIs and integration layers that meet strong standards for security and reliability
- Model and tune data in SQL Server, and keep schemas evolving without breaking production
- Contribute reusable platform capabilities that other squads build on

Raise the bar

- Set a high standard for clean, maintainable code, and back it up in review
- Mentor other developers through pairing and direct feedback
- Build AI-assisted workflows into daily development, and share what works
- Take part in architecture discussions and help shape technical strategy across the platform

Technical Expectations

- Strong experience with C# and ASP.NET Core
- Experience building and evolving multi-tenant, microservice-based architectures
- Strong REST API design, and high-performance APIs and integration layers built to industry standards
- Experience with pub/sub or event-driven messaging, for example Azure Service Bus




- Strong SQL Server knowledge, with Dapper and Entity Framework Core
- Deep grasp of SOLID and common design patterns
- Experience building cloud platforms. Azure preferred; AWS or GCP fine

Data and platform

- Diagnose database bottlenecks with execution plans, profilers, and system metrics
- Tune performance end to end, from code to SQL to schema
- Build and maintain data contracts so schema changes do not break production

Frontend

- Enough Angular familiarity to work across a full feature when needed

What We're Looking For

These are behavioural and methodological expectations, not just a technology checklist.

- Communication first: You are a strong communicator before anything else. You speak up in grooming and planning, you offer a view on the best technical, product, and design direction, and you make your case clearly in writing, in meetings, and in code review. We do not want someone to code requirements. We want a problem solver who moves the product forward.
- Building with AI: You already develop with AI, using Claude or another frontier model. You care about engineering best practices, and you use AI to deliver faster without lowering quality. New technology excites you, and you want to help build the next generation of our SDLC. Experience with agentic loops, auto-research, and other advanced AI techniques is preferred.
- Standards and the Factory: As a member of an InPlace squad, you contribute often to our standards and to the AI Product Development Factory, our shared tooling and processes.
- Agile and lean: You work well in an agile team. You favour rapid experiments and you validate assumptions instead of guessing.
- Experience: Five or more years in backend development, with a track record of shipping platform-grade services.

Nice to Have

- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, and graph data modelling
- Experience designing NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB for high-throughput or unstructured workload
- Experience with legacy migration patterns, including the strangler pattern

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