Backend Engineer II - AI-Powered SaaS, Hybrid, Equity

Mitti by SafetyCulture; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity with growth potential

Flexible working arrangements

Training & development opportunities

Culinary crew for daily meals

Wellbeing initiatives & parental leave

Team events & celebrations

Office amenities & pet-friendly spaces

Job summary

Mitti by SafetyCulture is a global tech company delivering scalable SaaS solutions that empower frontline workers. As a Software Engineer II you will design, build, and maintain backend services, owning features end-to-end in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

You will work with Golang, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka while embracing AI-assisted development to optimize solutions and user experiences. Hybrid work includes time at our Sydney HQ.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in a back-end programming language and framework with growing expertise in building scalable systems.
• Practical experience owning and delivering software features end-to-end in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and common data stores like PostgreSQL.
• An understanding of distributed systems concepts and datastore design principles.
• A user-centric approach and a commitment to writing clean, maintainable code.
• Experience working in fast-paced, SaaS-oriented teams and environments.
• Comfort working with ambiguity, and a willingness to take on problems outside your immediate ticket.
• Use of AI coding assistants as a normal part of your workflow, with the judgement to critically evaluate what they produce.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in a large-scale SaaS platform, including distributed systems and data stores.
• Take ownership of features from inception to delivery, working directly with stakeholders, product, and design.
• Use a tech stack that includes Golang, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka, alongside datastore design, data warehousing, and distributed systems.
• Participate actively in code review, testing, and the continuous improvement of how the team works.
• Apply a practical understanding of AI technologies, identifying opportunities to bring automation or intelligence into feature development.
• Bring a user-centric mindset, ensuring engineering decisions support better user experiences — even in platform-facing work.

Skills

Golang

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS

PostgreSQL

Code review

AI integration

Tools

Golang

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Mitti by SafetyCulture is a global tech company delivering scalable SaaS solutions that empower frontline workers. As a Software Engineer II you will design, build, and maintain backend services, owning features end-to-end in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

You will work with Golang, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka while embracing AI-assisted development to optimize solutions and user experiences. Hybrid work includes time at our Sydney HQ.