Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Own End-to-End Cloud Platform

Torch Professional Services; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Torch Professional Services is seeking a Senior Engineer to own end-to-end backend features on a greenfield project, delivering on a Kotlin/Spring Boot stack hosted in GCP. You’ll take ownership from system design through to production and collaborate closely with a small, high-trust team.

This hands-on role requires mentoring a junior developer, driving technical direction, and delivering robust APIs and data workflows. A hybrid Sydney-based setup is expected with immediate availability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior software engineering experience with hands-on production systems.
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java with Spring Boot and REST APIs.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure) and CI/CD.
• Strong SQL/PostgreSQL and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end feature delivery - system design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Mentor a junior developer and help set technical direction.
• Build robust, performant APIs and microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot.
• Write and optimize PostgreSQL queries (including ORM usage) and analytical queries, ideally in BigQuery.
• Collaborate with the SRE team on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on GCP.
• Own workflows for durable, long-running business processes.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Spring Boot

REST API design

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

GCP

CI/CD

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

BigQuery

ORMs

Job description

Torch Professional Services is seeking a Senior Engineer to own end-to-end backend features on a greenfield project, delivering on a Kotlin/Spring Boot stack hosted in GCP. You’ll take ownership from system design through to production and collaborate closely with a small, high-trust team.

This hands-on role requires mentoring a junior developer, driving technical direction, and delivering robust APIs and data workflows. A hybrid Sydney-based setup is expected with immediate availability.