Senior Software Developer

Sydney Stitch.net

Job Description

This job ad is for the position of Senior Software Developer at one of Australia’s most unique and high-impact social enterprises. It’s for someone who is experienced in full-stack development, comfortable owning work end-to-end across a mature product stack, and cares about having a positive impact and making the world a better place.

But before you read on, we have something to tell you:

Seriously, stop reading this ad right now. In fact, do yourself a favour and take a break from looking at job ads altogether, and first ask yourself what you really want to do with your life. You are going to spend most of your life working. Do you want it to mean something?

Our Company

Stitch is an Australian technology-based social enterprise that addresses loneliness and social isolation for older adults, a critical issue in the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

We recently won a United Nations award that recognises the life‑changing impact we have made improving lives around the world.

We have a passionate and growing community of members who tell us Stitch has changed their lives, with many telling us they felt they had nothing to live for before they found Stitch.

We’ve been covered by TIME Magazine, Bloomberg TV, the New Yorker, NPR, Huffington Post, and everything in between.

We love using our skills and ingenuity to combine modern technology with the power of community to solve one of the biggest problems facing society today.

And the community is now growing so quick, in such a variety of places around the world,



that we're now looking for exceptional individuals to join our product development team to help us make an even bigger impact on the lives of our members by delivering great software.

Our Philosophy

We’ve got a very simple philosophy: Make the world a better place.

And when your members constantly tell you how much you have changed their lives, it’s easy to feel good about what you’re doing.

The Location

Our physical offices are in the Sydney CBD, but with this role, you won't be required to endure a daily commute. In fact, after the pandemic, our team voted to become a remote‑first company. We all enjoy the flexibility that working from home provides, not to mention the extra chunk of our lives that we get to actually live, rather than spending on public transport or in traffic.

Having said that, we all know it's difficult to build good relationships over Zoom, so we come into the office once per week for team events, planning, and collaboration. Remote working can be great, but we'd all go crazy if we didn't spice things up with a bit of fun and social interaction.

That means the role suits someone who is a positive communicator, likes working independently, and gets real satisfaction from doing good work, but also enjoys building genuine connections with the people they work with.

The Role





We’re looking for a senior full‑stack generalist who is comfortable owning work end-to-end across a mature product stack — from a Python/Django REST API through to an AngularJS web app — and who treats modern AI tools as part of how they ship, not a side hobby.

You’ll work across our backend services (Django, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Redis, Celery/RabbitMQ), our AngularJS frontend and shared client library, and AWS‑hosted infrastructure (RDS, S3, CloudFront, SES, CloudWatch, and growing use of Bedrock and related AI services). Day to day that means building and improving product features, integrating third‑party platforms (payments, messaging, realtime, media, analytics), and helping us use AI effectively — both in the product (moderation, evaluation agents, AWS AI services) and in how we develop (Cursor and similar AI‑assisted workflows) to deliver products and features that make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions of older adults.

We value breadth and judgment over narrow specialism. You should be happy jumping between API design, async jobs, frontend UX, cloud ops, and AI‑assisted delivery, and comfortable working in a codebase that mixes established patterns with newer AI capabilities.

Love what you do

Candidates for this role need to enjoy everything about building applications for the web and mobile that actually get used — and loved — by real end users. You'll enjoy the sense of satisfaction that comes from building new products and features, driving best practices, constantly learning, constantly improving.

If you're looking for an opportunity to take control of your own destiny, work on a great product with a fantastic team, and make a positive difference to the world, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

- Own features end-to-end across Django REST APIs and the existing AngularJS web app / shared cl

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📍 Sydney