Senior Software Developer

MPAU Technology; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MPAU Technology in Melbourne seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain modern, scalable applications. You will own features end-to-end, from architecture and design through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.

You will work with TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, build secure APIs, and contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines while mentoring teammates and raising engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Experience building modern customer-facing applications with TypeScript/React.
• Proven ability to design secure APIs and scalable backend services.
• Hands-on with AWS services and cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability practices.
• Comfort with full-stack delivery, from design to production support.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of full-stack features from design to deployment.
• Build modern 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 SST/Pulumi on AWS.
• Improve productivity via CI/CD, tests, tooling, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to both greenfield projects and existing systems, avoid over-engineering.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture, code reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Prisma

Testing (Vitest/Jest)

Python

Full-stack development

Tools

SST

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

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.

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.

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

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