Backend Software Engineer

Megaport; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Remote work in Australia

Generous leave plans

Learning and development support

Job summary

Megaport is hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer to own features on systems that customers rely on daily. You’ll contribute to core APIs and services behind the Megaport platform, working in a JVM stack with Java and Kotlin. The role reports to Engineering Manager and involves modern tooling and a path to Kotlin expertise.

You’ll join a collaborative team in a Brisbane-based environment with flexible remote options across Australia, and opportunities to mentor and grow within the backend group.

Qualifications

• A few years building backend services in Java or Kotlin.
• Comfortable working with Spring and JVM stack.
• Relational databases with data modeling experience.
• Clear communication and ability to explain technical trade-offs.
• Take ownership of problems and drive them to resolution.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Willingness to learn Kotlin and expand tooling as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship backend services and APIs, from a problem to production-ready code.
• Work in a modern JVM stack including Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Ship to a Kubernetes and AWS platform with GitHub Actions.
• Turn business requirements into technical solutions and speak up when needed.
• Collaborate with engineers, product and stakeholders to ensure reliable, secure and fast systems.
• Write tests and participate in code reviews; help improve architecture and reduce technical debt.

Skills

Java & Kotlin

Spring

Relational databases

Communication

Ownership

Problem solving

Technical translation

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

Hibernate

Terraform

Job description

We’re not your typical tech company – and we don’t want to be. Megaport is the global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), and has transformed the way businesses connect to the cloud, data centers, and each other. We’re publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and partnered with the biggest names in tech like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and more. Headquartered in Brisbane with a crew of over 600 people spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, our employees enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and (actually) fun.

Our Team Culture

We’re a team of problem solvers, pixel pushers, code slingers, and cloud fanatics. Culture is more than a poster on the wall here – collaboration beats hierarchy, curiosity fuels our growth, and everyone’s voice matters. We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We work across time zones to execute on our global vision, trust each other to get things done, and never compromise our values for commercial gain. Most importantly, we place our customers at the center of everything we do.

We’re committed to increasing representation in the tech industry and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Don’t meet every requirement? That’s okay. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

About Megaport

We’re not your typical tech company – and we don’t want to be. Megaport is the global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), and has transformed the way businesses connect to the cloud, data centers, and each other. We’re publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and partnered with the biggest names in tech like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and more. Headquartered in Brisbane with a crew of over 600 people spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, our employees enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and (actually) fun.

We’re a team of problem solvers, pixel pushers, code slingers, and cloud fanatics. Culture is more than a poster on the wall here – collaboration beats hierarchy, curiosity fuels our growth, and everyone’s voice matters. We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We work across time zones to execute on our global vision, trust each other to get things done, and never compromise our values for commercial gain. Most importantly, we place our customers at the center of everything we do.

We’re committed to increasing representation in the tech industry and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Don’t meet every requirement? That’s okay. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

You’ve got a few years of building backend services under your belt, and you’re ready to own real features on systems that customers depend on every day.

We’re looking for a mid-level Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us ship high-quality software, faster. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll work on the core systems behind the Megaport platform — the APIs and services that turn a click in the Portal into provisioned connectivity between data centers on opposite sides of the world.

Our main codebase is a mixture of Java and Kotlin using the Spring Boot framework, and we are migrating fully to Kotlin over time. You don’t need Kotlin on day one, but you’ll be writing it before long.

You’ll work alongside a skilled, driven team, and have genuine room to shape how we solve problems. Our backend engineers also run a dedicated mentoring program, so you'll have someone in your corner as you grow.

• Design, build and ship backend services and APIs, from an ambiguous problem through to tested, maintainable code in production.
• Work in a modern JVM stack including Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, RabbitMQ and Redis, and help shape how we use it.
• Ship to a Kubernetes and AWS platform where GitHub Actions handle the heavy lifting, so you spend your time on the product rather than on infrastructure.
• Turn business requirements into technical solutions, and speak up when a requirement doesn't quite add up. We'd rather you asked why before how.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders across the business to build systems that stay reliable, secure and fast as we grow.
• Write JUnit and Kotest tests that let us ship with confidence, and take part in code review as both author and reviewer.
• Help improve our architecture, patterns and processes, and keep our technical debt in check to ensure the codebase remains flexible and well-maintained.

We care as much about how you think and work as what you already know. The technical bar matters, but so does curiosity, clear communication, and the drive to own your work.

• Have a few years building backend services in Java or Kotlin.
• Are comfortable working with Spring, and have a sense of what it's doing for you.
• Know your way around relational databases and can model data with an eye on how it'll be queried.
• Communicate clearly — you can explain a technical trade-off to an engineer and to a non-engineer, and you listen as well as you talk.
• Like solving problems, and can think critically about them. You dig into the why, weigh options, and aren't satisfied with "it works" when it could be right.
• Take ownership — you're keen to pick up a problem, run with it, and see it through.

Nice to have (or happy to help you learn):

• Kotlin, or an appetite for picking it up.
• Experience with Go or Terraform. We maintain our own Terraform Provider, and we’re upskilling the team to build on it.
• Experience with ORMs like Hibernate, and a sense of when not to reach for one.
• Knowledge of the major cloud providers’ products or APIs. We integrate directly with AWS, Azure and GCP to provision customer connectivity.
• An interest in networking — IP routing, MPLS, or just how the internet actually fits together.
• Flexible working environment — Brisbane-based with one or two days a week in the office, or fully remote anywhere in Australia with good overlap with east-coast hours
• Generous leave plans — including parental leave, birthday leave, and a purchased annual leave program
• Health and wellness support — through a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives
• Comprehensive learning support — generous study and training allowance plus paid study leave
• Creative, modern workspaces — designed to inspire when you're not working remotely, plus access to coworking spaces via our global WeWork membership if you work remotely, but like to get out of the house sometimes
• Motivated, inclusive team — work alongside industry experts and fresh talent
• Recognition programs — celebrate achievements with our Legend and Kudos awards

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