Senior Software Engineer

Littlepay; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working conditions

Professional development

Superannuation contributions

Flexible leave options

Remote working arrangement

Job summary

Littlepay, a growing fintech in Melbourne, seeks an experienced backend engineer for its Product Engineering team working on high‑performance transaction processing systems.

You will design, build, and operate features across an omni‑channel payments platform, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and analysts to ship safe, reliable releases in an agile setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with backend fundamentals.
• Experience building micro-services and serverless architectures.
• Professional experience with AWS cloud services and related tools.
• RESTful API experience.
• CI/CD practices experience.
• Asynchronous event-driven systems experience.
• Interest in cryptographic algorithms and transaction security.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team growth.

Responsibilities

• Work within clear domain boundaries and communicate design trade-offs.
• Champion best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
• Take full ownership of delivering applications that exceed customer expectations.
• Enjoy solving complex problems in an agile team setting.
• Mentor teammates through constructive feedback and coaching.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver customer value.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning.

Skills

Microservices

Serverless

AWS

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Asynchronous processing

Cryptography interest

Mentoring

Tools

Java

Spring

Go

Node.js

AWS

Job description

About us

We're Littlepay – a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 19 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

About the opportunity

You’ll join a Product Engineering team working on Littlepay’s high‑performance transaction processing systems.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Designing, building, maintaining and operating features across our omni-channel payments platform.
• Collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and business analysts to turn problems into safe, reliable releases.
• Owning outcomes end‑to‑end: understanding the problem, shaping the solution, shipping it safely, and improving it based on what we learn in production.

What you will do in this role

The specific focus of the role will evolve as we scale, but you can expect to:

• Work within clear domain boundaries and communicate design trade‑offs.
• Champion best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
• Take full ownership of delivering applications that exceed customer expectations.
• Enjoy solving complex and interesting problems in an agile team setting
• Care about your team, help them grow through providing constructive feedbacks, coaching, and mentoring
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, align on scope, and deliver customer value.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, constructive feedback, and shared learning.

Technology you will work with

From a technology standpoint, you will work with tools such as:

• Java, Spring, Go, and Node.js
• AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, SQS, SAM, CloudFormation, S3, API Gateway)
• Open source tooling and modern engineering practices

You are likely a match if you have:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals.
• Extensive experience in building micro‑services and server‑less architectures
• Professional experience with AWS cloud services and related tools
• RESTful API experience
• Professional experience in CI/CD practices
• Asynchronous event‑driven systems experience
• An interest or experience in cryptographic algorithms and transaction security
• Have proven ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• A willingness to plan, learn, fail, and try again
• Genuine curiosity, and a proactive and self‑motivated approach to learning
• The ability to comprehend, co‑ordinate, and communicate clearly and effectively on a wide range of issues with colleagues, both technical and non‑technical
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team growth.

Why join us?

• Innovative Environment: Engage in the development of industry‑leading products within the transit space, solving everyday challenges and enhancing the customer experience through technology.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
• Collaborative Culture: A supportive team that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
• Impactful Work: Play a key role in improving the transit and mobility experience for millions of users.
• Collaborative Workspace: Work in a high‑trust environment with access to cloud collaboration tools such as Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira, which enables us to solve problems together efficiently.

Benefits

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you’ll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company‑wide paid day off
• A variety of flexible leave options
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Our generous employee referral program
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life or our EAP program
• Mid‑year, quarterly, and end‑of‑year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short‑term remote working arrangement

In‑office expectations

At Littlepay, we believe great work happens when we solve problems, together. We see in‑person collaboration as an important way to build connections, share ideas, and support each other meaningfully.

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two‑day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. For example, our team in Luxembourg works 4 days from the office, whereas our AU and UK teams currently work a minimum of 2 days onsite in our Melbourne/London offices. Some positions might require more frequent office attendance to su