Senior Software Engineer

UpGuard; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UpGuard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own a feature area within our Product Engineering team in Brisbane. You’ll shape technical design, mentor peers, and drive end-to-end delivery for customers who rely on our cyber risk platform.

The role fits into one of our squads with PMs and designers and uses React/TypeScript on the frontend, Go services with Postgres, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud. Apply ideas to code, tests, reviews, and production operations from day one.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, product-driven companies.
• Strong TypeScript and React capabilities.
• Backend work in Go and solid Postgres skills.
• Experience with AI coding tools and cloud-native deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own a feature area end to end from design to production and follow-up.
• Lead technical design and drive architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with product and design to shape scope and priorities.
• Mentor engineers and improve squad code quality and decisions.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of owned systems.
• Apply cybersecurity domain understanding to product development.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Go

PostgreSQL

Architectural design

Mentorship

AI coding tools

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Claude Code

Cursor

Git

Job description

Who are we?

At UpGuard, we are replacing manual security bottlenecks with AI-driven precision. Fresh off a US$75M Series C, we are scaling our infrastructure to process 100 billion risk signals daily. This isn’t just growth; it’s a total reimagining of how the world manages cyber risk.

About The Role

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own a feature area within our Product Engineering team. You'll be the engineer your product manager turns to for "is this possible, and how big is it", leading technical design for your area and seeing it through to production. You'll shape how your squad builds, mentor the engineers around you, and have real influence over what we ship for customers who depend on us to understand their cyber risk.

You'll join one of our 11 (and growing) Product Engineering squads, most of which have a product manager, designer and technical lead alongside the engineers.

Our stack is React and TypeScript on the front end, Go services with Postgres as our primary database, running on Kubernetes via Google Cloud Platform.

Our engineers work with agentic coding tools, mostly Claude Code and Cursor, and a growing part of the product is LLM-backed. You'll work this way from day one, and we'll want your ideas on what to automate next, from how we write code to how we test, review, ship and run it.

We're also hiring Mid and Staff Software Engineers. Not sure which level fits?

What You'll Do

• Own a feature area end to end, from design conversations with product through to production and follow-up
• Lead technical design for your area and drive the architectural decisions within it
• Work with product and design to shape what we build: what's possible, what it costs, and what should come first
• Mentor the engineers around you and lift the quality of the squad's code and decisions
• Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of the systems you own
• Go deep on the cybersecurity domain and bring that understanding into what we build

What We're Looking For

• Typically 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, product-driven companies
• Strong TypeScript and React
• A backend language you're productive in (we use Go)
• Solid relational database skills (we use Postgres)
• AI coding tools as your default