AI-Driven Associate Software Engineer & Agent Orchestrator

Nine; North Sydney Council; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks parental leave

Employee Exclusives program

Digital newspaper subscription

Stan subscription voucher

Job summary

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company. The Consumer Platform team builds paywalls, entitlements and digital access across Nine’s media properties.

We seek an Associate Software Engineer to design, build and operate AI-enabled agent orchestration within cloud-native microservices alongside senior engineers. You’ll work across Golang, Node.js, React and TypeScript, contributing to scalable architectures, automated pipelines and high-availability systems.

Qualifications

• Academic background or practical exposure building web, mobile, or backend applications, including Git version control.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools and basic understanding of agentic workflows and automation.
• Foundational understanding of cloud architecture (AWS or GCP), containersation (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to walk through your technical approach using project or academic examples.
• Demonstrated passion for software engineering and modern AI, shown through personal projects, internships, or community involvement.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance microservices, APIs and user interfaces using Golang, Node.js, React and TypeScript.
• Write clean, maintainable and thoroughly tested code across frontend and backend systems.
• Design, configure and maintain AI agents and agentic pipelines (such as coding assistants, automated PR evaluation and workflow orchestrators).
• Integrate AI tools into developer environments to automate system tasks and streamline code delivery.
• Maintain high availability, security and low latency across cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
• Contribute to architectural discussions and system designs for high-concurrency access control platforms.
• Participate in code reviews to uphold full-stack quality and engineering standards.
• Author project requirements and technical documentation optimised for consumption by both humans and AI tooling.

Skills

Git

AI tooling

Cloud arch

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Analytical thinking

Growth mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS or GCP

Job description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company. The Consumer Platform team builds paywalls, entitlements and digital access across Nine’s media properties.

We seek an Associate Software Engineer to design, build and operate AI-enabled agent orchestration within cloud-native microservices alongside senior engineers. You’ll work across Golang, Node.js, React and TypeScript, contributing to scalable architectures, automated pipelines and high-availability systems.