Senior Software Developer

Technology CII; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Technology CII is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Australia’s Victoria region to design, develop, and maintain cutting-edge technology solutions. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery, building modern customer-facing apps with TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL and AWS, and crafting secure APIs and scalable infrastructure.

You will drive CI/CD, tooling, and operational excellence while collaborating with product and design teams to translate requirements into practical technical

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript, React and modern frontend/backend stacks.
• Experience building production systems and APIs with cloud services.
• Strong background in CI/CD and automation practices.

Responsibilities

• Own 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, provision and manage cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi) in AWS.
• Improve engineering productivity via CI/CD pipelines, tooling and testing practices.
• Collaborate with product, design and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews and mentoring.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Infrastructure as Code

SST or Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Prisma

Vitest/Jest

Python

Full-stack development

Tools

SST/Pulumi

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge technology solutions. This permanent position offers the chance to work on impactful projects while enhancing systems and applications.

Client Details

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

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.

Profile

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

Job Offer

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