Principal Software Engineer

Updoc; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Nerd-friendly culture

Updocversity

Wellness program

Diversity

Two-course lunch

Job summary

Updoc is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help connect patients, doctors, medical professionals and pharmacies across Australia. You’ll own architecture, build scalable backends and APIs, and collaborate directly with product, clinicians and operations.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and pragmatic engineering as we shape healthcare tech at scale. You’ll work with a nerdy, AS-ASA team culture and daily problem solving, contributing to systems that touch millions of interactions while

Qualifications

• Past experience solving ambiguous problems into scalable systems.
• Ability to discuss trade-offs with product managers, doctors and operations.
• Strong focus on maintainable backend APIs, automations and internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous problems into simple, scalable systems.
• Own technical decisions from architecture through production.
• Talk directly with product managers, doctors and operations to understand problems.
• Build reliable backend systems, APIs, automations and internal tooling.
• Improve engineering standards and practices, not just code features.
• Leave every part of the codebase better than you found it.

Skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture decisions

Backend development

API design

Job description

Hey, I’m Kaveh, head of engineering here at Updoc.

I’ve been building tech for over a decade, and let me tell you there’s nothing quite like working on something that genuinely changes lives. At Updoc, we’re shaping the future of healthcare and we’re looking for a senior software engineer to join our team and help us build technology that connects patients, doctors, medical professionals, and pharmacies across the country.

Now, this isn’t your average healthcare gig. We’re scrappy, curious, and unapologetically nerdy. Our tech team comes from some of the best global tech companies think Canva, Uber, Amazon but we don’t have room for egos here. We thrive on collaboration, coffee-fueled debates about system architecture, and the occasional (okay, frequent) meme battle in Slack.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Take ambiguous problems and turn them into simple, scalable systems


• Own technical decisions from architecture through production


• Talk directly with product managers, doctors and operations to deeply understand problems.


• Build reliable backend systems, APIs, automations and internal tooling


• Improve engineering standards rather than simply writing features


• Leave every part of the codebase better than you found it

About You

• You’ll thrive here if someone can say, \"Doctors are wasting two hours every day on this process,\" and your instinct is to investigate, identify the root cause and build the right solution not wait for detailed requirements.


• You enjoy working across a broad range of engineering problems from high-volume patient workflows and distributed systems to payments, APIs, automations and internal tooling.


• You love solving puzzles. You see a gnarly bug or a tricky edge case, and your first thought is, \"Challenge accepted.\"


• We expect engineers to use AI every day to accelerate development, research, debugging and prototyping but never as a substitute for engineering judgment.


• You care about maintainability and pragmatism. You know when to move quickly and when investing in architecture pays dividends.


• You’re curious AF. Always exploring new tools and tech? Perfect.


• Bonus points if you’ve worked in startups, healthcare, or built systems that have to work at scale (like, millions-of-users scale).

Why Join Us?

• The team: We hire the best and give you real autonomy. It works because we build psychological safety, not hierarchy


• A nerd-friendly culture: We celebrate curiosity, creativity, and collaboration.


• Updocversity: Our in-house learning program helps you pick up new skills with real structure


• Wellness: Unlimited medical consultations and reflection-based team offsites


• Diversity: 75% of our team are culturally and linguistically diverse


• Daily two-course lunch: Our private chef cooks a rotating main and dessert every day. Yes, really

Hear from our founder, Cliffe, who recently spoke about how to improve healthcare access with Updoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmw4nDErpZk