Senior Backend engineer for ML applications

Yum! Brands

Queensland

Hybrid

AUD 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/hybrid working environment

5 additional paid leave days for wellbeing

Job summary

A leading global restaurant company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in Brisbane, Australia. The role focuses on developing ML-powered applications, and ideal candidates will have over 3 years of software development experience, particularly in Python. This position offers a flexible working environment and a competitive salary range from A$60,000 to A$100,000 annually.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience building software applications.
2+ years of experience developing cloud applications (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Responsibilities

Design and develop applications utilizing machine learning models.
Contribute to system design and architecture for cloud and edge ML applications.
Optimize performance/latency/cost of the application.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Python

Experience in concurrent programming

Experience with large scale deployments

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer for ML Applications

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Yum! Brands is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of units, with over 55,000 restaurants across more than 150 countries and territories.

We proudly operate globally recognized brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill – united by a shared passion for innovation, customer experience, and delivering craveable food at scale.

We are seeking a talented and experienced backend engineer to join our team in building cutting-edge voice assistants that leverage LLMs, speech recognition, and text-to-speech models. You will be working in a cross-functional team of experienced data scientists and engineers to develop highly scalable solutions for call centers, drive-throughs, and ordering kiosks. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring of these solutions.

Responsibilities

Design and develop applications utilizing machine learning models to solve specific business or operational problems
Contribute to system design and architecture and scaling for cloud and edge ML applications
Optimize performance/latency/cost of the application

Qualifications

3+ years of experience building software applications
Strong programming skills in Python – other languages like C, C++, Java, Go are well regarded but most coding will be in Python
Experience in concurrent programming
Experience with large scale deployments
2+ years of experience developing cloud applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Preferred Qualifications