Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience

UBank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UBank in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer - Developer Experience to design, build and evolve internal developer platform capabilities that boost productivity across engineering teams.

You will partner with feature squads, security and architecture, delivering self-service tooling, golden paths, and reliable CI/CD pipelines while ensuring compliance in a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in Software Engineering, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Developer Experience Engineering.
• Experience building shared capabilities, frameworks, products, or platforms consumed by multiple teams.
• Strong fundamentals with production apps using TypeScript, Node.js and frontend frameworks like React.

Responsibilities

• Build internal developer products to improve productivity and experience across engineering teams.
• Improve software delivery with platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
• Enable observability and reliability with dashboards, tooling, and runbooks; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Software Engineering

Platform Engineering

Developer Experience

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud-native development

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

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.

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