Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

Ubank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous package and company benefits

Hybrid working model

Sydney CBD office (Wynyard)

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Ubank is hiring a Platform Engineer - Developer Experience in Sydney. You will design, build and evolve internal developer platforms to boost engineering productivity, delivering reusable workflows and golden paths that align with governance and security standards.

You will partner with feature squads, security and architecture to reduce friction, improve delivery, and create scalable solutions that benefit multiple teams across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in Software/Backend/Platform engineering.
• Built reusable platform capabilities consumed by multiple teams.
• Strong fundamentals with TypeScript, Node.js and React.
• Familiar with CI/CD, cloud-native development and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to improve engineering workflows with automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build internal developer products and reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve software delivery with scalable platform services and pipelines.
• Enable observability and reliability with dashboards, tooling and runbooks.
• Collaborate with security, risk and cross-functional partners to balance delivery velocity and compliance.

Skills

Software Engineering

Backend Engineering

Platform Engineering

Developer Experience Engineering

TypeScript

Node.js

React

CI/CD

IaC / Cloud-native

Automation

Job description

• Permanent full-time role, immediate start!
• Generous package and company benefits
• Hybrid ways of working, Sydney CBD office (Wynyard)

• Permanent full-time role, immediate start!
• Generous package and company benefits
• Hybrid ways of working, Sydney CBD office (Wynyard)

About Us

At Ubank, we empower the digital generation to achieve financial success. Think of us as your daily money companion, offering a unified view of your finances with smart features and real-time insights. Save more, track spending, and achieve home ownership faster with Ubank.

The Why

As a Platform Engineer - Developer Experience, you'll design, build, and evolve shared developer platform capabilities that improve engineering productivity across the organisation. You'll treat our engineers as customers, identifying friction in their day-to-day workflows and creating scalable solutions that make software delivery simpler, faster, and more reliable.

Working closely with feature squads, Tech Leads, Security and Architecture teams, you'll use a platform-as-product mindset to create internal developer experiences that accelerate the delivery of customer value while maintaining the security, resilience, and compliance standards expected in a regulated banking environment.

This is an opportunity for a Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving engineering-wide problems, building reusable capabilities, and creating tools and workflows that have impact far beyond a single team.

Key Responsibilities

Build Internal Developer Products

• Design, build and evolve developer platform capabilities that improve productivity, consistency, and developer experience across engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain reusable self-service workflows, tooling, and paved-road solutions that reduce friction and enable teams to deliver with confidence.
• Create opinionated golden paths that encode engineering standards while allowing flexibility where it makes sense.

Improve Software Delivery

• Design and maintain platform services supporting build systems, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and software delivery practices.
• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies across the software development lifecycle and drive improvements that reduce cognitive load for engineers.
• Partner with feature squads to understand workflow challenges and co-design practical solutions that improve delivery outcomes.

Enable Observability and Reliability

• Build platform capabilities that improve visibility into system health, service performance, and developer workflows.
• Develop dashboards, automation, tooling, and runbooks that reduce operational overhead and improve incident response effectiveness.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response activities with a focus on continuous improvement and learning.

Partner Across Engineering

• Work closely with Security, Risk and Compliance stakeholders to embed controls, policy checks, and governance requirements into developer workflows without unnecessarily impacting delivery velocity.
• Influence platform adoption across engineering teams through strong technical leadership, collaboration, education, and support.
• Balance developer needs with platform standards, security requirements, operational resilience, and regulatory obligations.

Your Experience

• Demonstrated experience in Software Engineering, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Developer Experience Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience building shared capabilities, frameworks, products, or platforms that are consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production applications using TypeScript, Node.js and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
• Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, engineering productivity solutions, or software delivery capabilities.
• Practical experience with modern software delivery practices, CI/CD platforms, cloud-native development, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience improving engineering workflows through automation, self-service capabilities, reusable tooling, or platform products.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively with engineers, technical leaders, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience working in modern product engineering environments where software engineers own development, testing, deployment, and operational outcomes.

Why Ubank?

• Innovation with impact: From meaningful work to amazing benefits, we equip you with the tools and support to drive real change - so your ideas don't just stay ideas, they become impact.
• Collaborative, supportive & fun: We believe innovation is a team sport. It comes from a special kind of culture that's highly collaborative and gives people the support they need to thrive.
• Build something great: Ubank is where ambition meets opportunity. We don't just talk about change - we give you the tools, trust, and support to make it happen.
• Freedom to be yourself: We celebrate individuality and give you the flexibility to work in ways that suit your style. Our hybrid working model lets you balance connection and autonomy.
• Accelerate your Career: With clear paths for career development, your potential won't just be recognised, it'll be accelerated.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of our local area.

This Sydney-based permanent role requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, and our Talent team is excited to connect with you.