Senior Software Engineer

Ndeva; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ndeva, an Australian scale-up in travel and property tech, seeks a senior engineer to join the first Australia-based engineering hire. You’ll report to the CTO and help design how systems fit together, building in a world where AI agents write much of the code.

You’ll own integrations across bookings, payments and partner platforms, onboard new businesses, and enhance experiences for customers and owners. Expect hybrid work with about one day in the office and real ownership in a fast-growing

Qualifications

• Strong senior engineer with solid fundamentals in how the web works (HTTP, auth, sessions)
• Good judgement on security and architecture for systems handling bookings and money
• You’ll need to reason about design choices and own what you ship
• Experience with TypeScript is ideal but not essential
• Startup or scale-up background appreciated and business-minded approach

Responsibilities

• Integrations: connect booking channels, payments and partner platforms
• Onboarding new businesses onto the platform with minimal disruption
• Improve customer and owner experiences from search to earnings visibility
• Build data connectors (MCP) to expose capabilities to AI agents
• Own production delivery and security, with clear ownership and verification

Skills

API design

TypeScript

Security

Architecture

AWS

Relational DBs

Tools

AWS

Job description

We are working with a VC-backed Australian scale-up in travel and property tech. They operate in holiday destinations across the country and have grown fast. They’re now rebuilding their technology from the ground up for an agentic world. The whole business is AI-forward, from operations to finance to the leadership team.

The role

This is the first engineering hire in Australia for a new, deliberately small and flat Technology team. You’ll report directly to the CTO.

AI agents write most of the code. Your job is to understand the problem, design how systems fit together, and prove that what gets built is right.

What you’ll work on

• Integrations: connecting booking channels, payments and partner platforms into one reliable system
• Onboarding new businesses: moving businesses that join the group onto the platform without disrupting their customers
• Customer and owner experiences: from finding and booking a stay through to clear visibility of bookings and earnings
• Agentic access: building the data connectors (MCP) that make the company’s data and capabilities safely available to AI agents

How they work

• Agents do most of the implementation. Engineers own the direction, specifications and verification: strict types, lint rules, tests and automated checks
• You own what you ship in production, including its security
• No hand-offs between product, engineering and data
• Tools and ways of working change every few months, and they like it that way

What they’re looking for

• A strong senior engineer
• Solid fundamentals: how the web works (HTTP, auth, sessions), API design, data modelling and relational databases
• Good judgement on security and architecture, especially for systems that move bookings and money
• Strong in one modern language. TypeScript is ideal, but not essential
• Someone who enjoys working with AI agents and is curious about where software development is heading. If you’re keen to get serious about agentic development, they’ll help you get there
• Business first: you’d rather sit with operations or finance to understand a problem than wait for a ticket
• Startup or scale-up experience
• AWS experience is a plus
• Work at the front of agentic development, alongside a hands-on CTO
• Real ownership and impact in a business that’s hungry for what you build
• Highly flexible: around one day a week in the office
• Smart, ambitious colleagues from some of the world’s best-known tech companies
• Business travel to some of Australia’s best holiday destinations