AI-Driven Software Engineer — Spec-First & Tooling

Nuage; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuage is a Melbourne-based technology consultancy redefining how software is built, combining hands-on feature delivery with tooling and practices that enable AI-assisted development. You will split your time between delivering features in a product squad and shaping the tooling that makes this new approach stick.

Design and implement AI-driven features, write specs for AI-assisted implementation, and build secure tool-calling integrations.

Qualifications

• Solid engineering fundamentals with broad architectural judgement.
• Hands-on experience with agent loops and MCP-like tooling.
• Experience with model providers (Anthropic/OpenAI/Vertex AI) and MCP familiarity.
• Full stack engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building AI-driven features and the systems that support them, working closely with a senior technical lead.
• Writing the specs that drive AI-assisted implementation
• Building integrations for agent tooling, including MCP connections and secure tool-calling setups
• Setting the bar on testing, secure coding practices and how AI-generated output gets evaluated
• Helping other engineers pick up spec-first workflows and get comfortable working alongside coding agents

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Agent loops experience

Model providers knowledge

Full stack experience

Tools

MCP servers

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI/Anthropic/Vertex AI tools

Job description

Nuage is a Melbourne-based technology consultancy redefining how software is built, combining hands-on feature delivery with tooling and practices that enable AI-assisted development. You will split your time between delivering features in a product squad and shaping the tooling that makes this new approach stick.

Design and implement AI-driven features, write specs for AI-assisted implementation, and build secure tool-calling integrations.