AI-Empowered Senior Python Engineer

Software at Scale; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Claude Code access (no token limits)

AWS infrastructure exposure

Competitive remuneration

Mentorship and growth opportunities

Job summary

Software at Scale seeks an AI-Empowered Senior Python Engineer to build and maintain a core SaaS platform written in Python. You will design RESTful APIs with FastAPI, integrate external AI models, and drive architecture decisions across teams.

You will explore AI-powered tooling, mentor peers, and own deployment pipelines on AWS, aiming for scalable, secure, and high-performance software delivery.

Qualifications

• Backend Python expert with deep knowledge of async programming and patterns.
• Experience designing and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Proficient in integrating external AI models and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale production-grade RESTful APIs using FastAPI.
• Integrate multiple AI models and enable AI-driven features in the SaaS platform.
• Develop A2A communication protocols for autonomous services.
• Lead refactoring efforts and mentor mid-level engineers.

Skills

Python

Backend architecture

Async programming

SaaS design

Code reviews

Tools

FastAPI

Claude Code

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

LLM integration

Job description

Our 'black belt' specialists are leaders in their domains: digital champions, delivery-focused experts, top-tier security professionals, AI thought leaders, and engineering best practice advocates.

As 1 of Australia’s fastest-growing software businesses, Software at Scale delivers cutting-edge technology solutions that power mission-critical platforms. We solve complex engineering challenges at scale, driving quality, performance, and resilience through the strength of our people.

The Role & The Challenge

We are seeking an exceptional, highly proactive AI-Empowered Senior Python Engineer who wants to challenge themselves by working on truly innovative software and solving real, complex problems.

To be absolutely clear: we are looking for a pure Python Software Engineer focused on backend systems, architecture, and API design. This is not a Data Engineering role, and we are not looking for candidates focused on data pipelines or ETL workflows.

You will step into a high-trust, fully empowered environment to heavily build out, refactor, and maintain a core Software as a Service (SaaS) platform built entirely in Python. The platform itself directly integrates with various AI models to provide advanced services to our customers.

AI Access & Claude Code: We actively encourage our engineers to solve problems using AI. You will have full access to enterprise GenAI tooling. Using Claude Code to accelerate your daily workflow is an absolute must for this role. We want you to work smarter, build faster, and push the boundaries of what modern engineering looks like.

Key Responsibilities

• Solving Interesting Problems: Autonomously identify architectural bottlenecks, thinking outside the box to engineer creative, unconventional solutions for our core AI-integrated SaaS platform.
• FastAPI Architecture & Engineering: Design, build, and scale production-grade RESTful JSON APIs using FastAPI, ensuring optimal response times and high throughput for our SaaS product.
• AI Model Integration: Build robust backend architectures that seamlessly integrate with multiple external LLMs and AI models to deliver core platform services.
• Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Development: Architect and implement complex A2A communication protocols, enabling autonomous systems to interact securely and efficiently.
• AI-Driven Engineering: Extensively utilise Claude Code (with 0 restrictions) to accelerate refactoring, code generation, automate testing, and solve complex architectural roadblocks.
• DevOps & AWS Infrastructure: Take extreme ownership of the deployment lifecycle. Develop, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines, deploying scalable Python workloads directly onto AWS infrastructure.
• Technical Mentorship: Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and performance optimisation efforts. Support and mentor mid-level engineers, contributing to a culture of uncompromised quality and ownership.

What You Bring

• The Desire for a Challenge: You are a self-starter who doesn't wait to be handed the answer. You actively seek out difficult engineering constraints and thrive when solving genuinely interesting technical puzzles.
• Python Software Engineering Mastery: You are a dedicated backend software engineer (not a Data Engineer) who understands the absolute depths of Python, asynchronous programming, and software design patterns.
• SaaS & FastAPI Excellence: Mandatory, extensive commercial experience building, refactoring, and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms using FastAPI.
• A2A & AI Integration: Proven commercial knowledge of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) architectures and experience integrating enterprise backend systems with external AI models.
• AWS & CI/CD Mastery: Mandatory experience deploying scalable workloads on AWS and building robust, frictionless CI/CD pipelines.
• Claude Code Fluency: You must have practical, delivery-focused experience using Claude Code to directly improve your own engineering output and refactor complex codebases.
• Bonus Skills: Commercial experience designing and building out SDKs for external consumption is highly desirable, alongside any specific experience in building custom Claude skills.

What We Offer

• The chance to work for 1 of Australia's fastest-growing and most innovative software businesses.
• Unrestricted access to top-tier AI tooling (including Claude Code) with 0 token limits.
• Meaningful, hands-on engineering work solving truly interesting, complex problems.
• Clear growth pathways from Senior to Staff and beyond.
• A low-ceremony, delivery-focused environment that values engineers who own outcomes.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits.