Cloud-Native Full Stack Engineer — AWS SaaS Migration & AI

The University of Melbourne; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Melbourne is seeking a highly capable Full Stack Engineer to migrate and modernise a real-time AI-driven SaaS platform to AWS. You will own frontend and backend development, dashboards, and analytics interfaces while collaborating with AI engineers and data analysts.

In this fast-paced team, you will shape cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows, integrating AI services, real-time data pipelines, and observability to deliver scalable, reliable software

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant full stack experience.
• Experience migrating or building SaaS platforms on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with: Frontend frameworks (React preferred); Backend development (Python/FastAPI); AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch); REST APIs and modern web architectures; CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; Docker and containerised services; Terraform or Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong Linux, scripting, and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support migration of the existing SaaS platform to AWS.
• Refactor and modernise legacy platform components where required.
• Improve scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability of the system.
• Help define architecture and deployment strategies for cloud-native services.
• Design, develop, and maintain frontend and backend components.
• Build responsive dashboards, operational tools, and analytics interfaces.
• Develop and maintain APIs and backend services.
• Integrate AI services, forecasting engines, optimisation systems, and real-time data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with AI engineers and analysts to operationalise new capabilities.

Skills

Full Stack

AWS

React

Python/FastAPI

REST APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

Linux

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The University of Melbourne is seeking a highly capable Full Stack Engineer to migrate and modernise a real-time AI-driven SaaS platform to AWS. You will own frontend and backend development, dashboards, and analytics interfaces while collaborating with AI engineers and data analysts.

In this fast-paced team, you will shape cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows, integrating AI services, real-time data pipelines, and observability to deliver scalable, reliable software