Senior Software Engineer

oOh!media; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Modern offices and amenities

Competitive salary and bonus

Career development

Parental leave and wellbeing support

Team events and hackathons

Wellness discounts

Impact on Australia and New Zealand’s

Inclusion and diversity

Job summary

oOh!media, Australia’s leading Out of Home company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney. You’ll own complex backend features in a high‑throughput domain for inventory availability and campaign scheduling, using Golang and Node.js on AWS.

You’ll design scalable, event‑driven, serverless systems, improve CI/CD and testing, mentor engineers, and help modernize platforms. Strong backend, distributed systems, observability, and collaboration with product and architecture teams are

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional backend software engineering.
• Strong production depth in Golang or Node.js.
• Hands-on AWS serverless design and operation experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex backend features end to end.
• Contribute to architecture and technical roadmap.
• Build high‑throughput, data‑intensive systems with correctness.
• Own production health with observability and SLOs.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and testing strategies.
• Leverage AI tooling to boost productivity without compromising quality.

Skills

Golang

Node.js

AWS

Serverless

Distributed systems

Observability

Databases

Leadership

CI/CD

Tools

AWS CDK

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

We are oOh!media (pronounced “oh!” media).

oOh!media is the #1 Out of Home company in Australia and New Zealand. We exist to make public spaces better and brands unmissable, proudly leading the market with innovation, creativity, data and results. Our network plays an important role in the communities they are located, creating engaging environments that inform, entertain and inspire, while connecting brands with audiences at scale.

We have a unique culture, purpose and set of values that shape how we show up every day. We Win as One. We are Hungry. Always. And we Own It. We are oOh!media, and we are unmissable.

About the opportunity:

• Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Flexibility: A vibrant, collaborative culture with 4 days in the office and flexibility built in
• Location: Based in Sydney

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team responsible for a core commercial domain managing inventory availability and campaign scheduling across our national network. These high-throughput systems support how our sales teams plan, quote, and schedule campaigns, while integrating seamlessly with external partners.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex backend challenges, designing and running event-driven, serverless systems primarily in Golang and Node.js on AWS, and raising the technical bar through active code review and mentoring. You will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer, delivery, and architecture partners to deliver high-quality, resilient solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

• End-to-End Delivery: Design and deliver complex backend features and services end to end, from technical design through to production deployment.
• Architecture & Roadmap: Contribute to the domain's architecture and technical roadmap in close partnership with the Staff Engineer and wider architecture teams.
• High-Throughput Systems & Data Integrity: Build for correctness, data integrity, and high performance in high-throughput concurrent systems, including idempotent processing and safe handling of competing updates.
• Service Ownership & Observability: Own the production health of your services by instrumenting them with OpenTelemetry, leveraging distributed tracing, alerts, and SLOs to understand system behavior, and proactively troubleshooting critical issues.
• Platform Modernisation: Drive platform evolution by safely transitioning consumers off legacy services and retiring them.
• CI/CD & Testing Standards: Enhance CI/CD pipelines and multi-level automated testing (contract and integration testing) to ensure changes reach production safely with rollback capabilities.
• Mentorship & Quality: Conduct thorough code and design reviews, mentor and coach fellow engineers, and help establish engineering best practices.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving & AI Tooling: Securely leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to boost productivity, while balancing business value, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability.

What you’ll bring:

• Backend Depth: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong production backend depth, ideally in Golang or Node.js.
• AWS & Serverless: Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating event-driven, serverless systems on AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge) and infrastructure as code (AWS CDK).
• Distributed Systems & Concurrency: Proven experience ensuring data correctness in high-throughput or concurrent systems (idempotency, ordering, retries, and data reconciliation).
• Modern Observability: Practical experience with distributed tracing, SLIs, and SLOs, ideally using OpenTelemetry and Datadog.
• Database & Testing Expertise: Experience working with databases (DynamoDB, Aurora DSQL, or PostgreSQL) alongside robust CI/CD, contract, and integration testing frameworks.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: A track record of mentoring engineers, lifting code quality, and clearly communicating technical trade-offs with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Domain Knowledge (Desirable): Experience within AdTech, inventory management, or campaign scheduling systems is a definite plus.

Benefits and perks:

• Modern offices with great amenities and easy transport access
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities
• Career development and learning opportunities to support your technical growth
• Generous parental leave and wellbeing support, including EAP access via Sonder
• Regular team events, hackathons, social activities, and recognition programs
• Wellness initiatives and discounts to support your health and lifestyle
• The opportunity to work on mission-critical platforms powering Australia and New Zealand's leading Out of Home network

If you’re curious, ready for a unique challenge, and want to make a real impact, we want to hear from you!

Proudly recognised with an AWEI Bronze LGBTQ+ inclusion badge.

At oOh!, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals and refugees.

To be considered, applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents with full working rights in Australia, and all offers of employment are subject to employer-funded pre-employment checks including police, reference, and work rights verification, with additional checks such as credit, bankruptcy, drug and alcohol screening, or driver’s licence verification required for some roles.