Senior Software Developer

Michael Page; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking aSenior Software Engineer in Melbourne to own end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, shaping architecture and delivering customer-facing applications with TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

You will design and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC (SST/Pulumi), contribute to CI/CD, testing, and tooling, and work across greenfield and production systems to improve code quality. Senior engineers provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Qualifications

• Experience building full-stack web apps using TypeScript and React.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (SST or Pulumi).
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Experience with Prisma ORM and testing (Vitest or Jest).
• Python for automation and CI/CD scripting.
• Strong software engineering practices and full-stack capability.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of full-stack features from design to deployment and support.
• Build customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
• Develop secure APIs and backend services powering core platform functionality.
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure with IaC (SST/Pulumi) across AWS services.
• Improve engineering productivity via CI/CD pipelines, testing, tooling, and observability.
• Work on greenfield and existing production systems, improving code quality.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, build reliable systems.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Prisma

Testing

Python

Full-stack development

Tools

Next.js

Job description

• Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Build modern customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, balancing scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
• Develop secure, well-designed APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality and support future growth.
• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi), with hands-on responsibility across AWS services including IAM, VPCs, ECS/Fargate, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Improve engineering productivity by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, developer tooling, and operational excellence.
• Work confidently across both greenfield projects and existing production systems, making thoughtful decisions that improve code quality without over-engineering.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in on-call responsibilities, and help build reliable, observable systems.
• Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• For senior engineers, provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and raising engineering standards across the team.

• Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Build modern customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, balancing scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
• Develop secure, well-designed APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality and support future growth.
• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi), with hands-on responsibility across AWS services including IAM, VPCs, ECS/Fargate, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Improve engineering productivity by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, developer tooling, and operational excellence.
• Work confidently across both greenfield projects and existing production systems, making thoughtful decisions that improve code quality without over-engineering.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in on-call responsibilities, and help build reliable, observable systems.
• Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• For senior engineers, provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and raising engineering standards across the team.

Opportunity to shape product and technical directionPermanent role

A successful Senior Software Engineer should have:

• TypeScript
• React
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure as Code (SST or Pulumi preferred)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
• ORM frameworks (Prisma preferred)
• Testing frameworks such as Vitest or Jest
• Python experience for automation and CI/CD scripting
• Experience building and maintaining production systems
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices
• Full-stack development capability

Nice to Have

• Next.js experience
• Supabase ecosystem familiarity
• SST experience
• Go or Deno experience
• Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch
• Monorepo experience (especially Turborepo)
• Startup or high-growth company experience

Our client is helping students achieve better outcomes through world-class mentoring and support. They're a fast-growing, startup-minded team that values ownership, speed, pragmatism, and strong engineering fundamentals.

This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact in a lean, high-performing team where engineers are trusted to solve problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats

• Modern engineering stack
• Opportunity to shape product and technical direction